CHAPTER 16. PROGRAM
UPDATES
Keeping your anti-virus software up-to-date is an investment in your computer’s
security. Because new viruses, Trojans, and malicious software emerge daily, it
is important to regularly update the application to keep your information
constantly protected. This task is managed by the
Updater
component.
Updating the application involves the following components being downloaded
and installed on your computer:
•
Threat Signatures, network attack signatures, and network drivers
Information on your computer is protected using a database containing
threat signatures and network attack profiles. The software components
that provide protection use the database of threat signatures to search for
and disinfect harmful objects on your computer. The signatures are added
to every hour, with records of new threats and methods to combat them.
Therefore, it is recommended that they are updated on a regular basis.
In addition to the threat signatures and the network attack database,
network drivers that enable protection components to intercept network
traffic are updated.
Previous versions of Kaspersky Lab applications have supported
standard
and
extended
database sets. Each database dealt with
protecting your computer against different types of dangerous objects. In
Kaspersky Internet Security you don’t need to worry about selecting the
appropriate threat signature set. Now our products use an threat
signatures that protect you from both malicious and potentially dangerous
objects, and from hacker attacks.
•
Application modules
In addition to the signatures, you can upgrade the modules for Kaspersky
Internet Security. New application updates appear regularly.
The main update source for Kaspersky Internet Security is Kaspersky Lab’s
update servers. These are a few of the addresses:
http://downloads1.kaspersky-labs.com/updates/
http://downloads2.kaspersky-labs.com/updates/
ftp://downloads1.kaspersky-labs.com/updates/
To download available updates from the update servers, your computer must be
connected to the Internet.
