CHAPTER 5. UPDATING THE
ANTI-VIRUS AND THE
CONTENT FILTRATION
DATABASES
Users of Kaspersky Lab's products can update:
•
anti-virus database
used to detect malicious programs and disinfect
infected objects. Anti-virus database files contain description of all
currently known malicious programs and disinfection methods for objects
infected with such malware as well as the description of all potentially
dangerous software (riskware);
•
content filtration database
, used for the linguistic analysis to detect SPAM
in the message body and attachments. The content filtration database
contains examples of spam messages as well as words and phrases
characteristic of SPAM messages.
It is extremely important to keep you databases up-to-date. We recom-
mend that you update your databases immediately after your application
is installed because the databases included into the distribution kit will
be out-of-date by the moment you install your application.
These databases are updated on an hourly basis on the Kaspersky
Lab's server. We recommend that you setup automatic updates with the
same frequency (see section 5.2, page 40).
The anti-virus and the content filtration databases can be updated from the
following sources:
•
from Kaspersky Lab's internet update servers;
•
from a local updates’ source - a local or a network folder.
The updating is performed manually or according to the schedule. After the files
are copied from the specified source of updates, the application automatically
connects the databases received and performs mail scan for viruses and spam
using these new databases.
