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New Features
Maintenance Pack 1 for Kaspersky® Anti-Virus 6.0 and
Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0, brought significant new features. These new features and
more are now integrated in Kaspersky version 7.0 Excerpt from Kaspersky
Overview In addition to technologies that directly affect the computer's protection, MP1
includes a number of new features that make the program easier to use. Selection of the file scanning mode has been added in the File Anti-Virus
component. Four modes are available: smart mode, scanning of files when they are opened
or modified, scanning only when files are accessed, or scanning only when files are
executed. The smart mode, in which the decision whether to scan an object is made based
on analysing the operations performed on it, is enabled by default. For example, when the
user is working with a Microsoft Office document, the file is scanned when it is first
opened and when it is last closed, while all intermediate operations related to saving
the file are excluded from scanning. Pausing a running antivirus scanning task if user activity is increased is one
of the key features in Kaspersky Lab 6.0 products. This enables users to work normally
even if the task of scanning the computer, which may take up considerable time and system
resources, is running in the background. In previous releases this technology could be
managed only globally for all scanning tasks at the same time. However, the experience of using the product has shown that for minor scanning tasks
it is best to avoid using this technology to enable scanning tasks to finish as quickly
as possible. Therefore, in MP1 in addition to controlling the global setting the user can
also control the use of this technology to pause individual antivirus scanning tasks.
If the user is doing work that requires significant operating system resources,
pausing the operation of the File Anti-Virus component may be required. MP1 introduces a
feature that can pause the component's operation during a specified time period or
while certain programs are running. The File Anti-Virus reports now specify the name of the user and computer from
which all files are accessed, including infected objects. This may be useful on a home
network in which a computer hosts shared resources for which several users have write
access permissions. In the event of an attempt to write an infected file to such a
resource the owner of the resource will easily determine from which remote computer the
attempt was made. On home networks and those connecting several households it is common for only one
computer on the network to have Internet access and therefore be able to update product
databases directly from the Kaspersky Lab update server, while other computers cannot
access the Internet, e.g., to save traffic. For such situations, another helpful
innovation has been introduced in MP1: The user with Internet access can copy threat signatures downloaded from the
Kaspersky Lab update server to a local folder. This makes it possible to create a
local update mirror, after which update tasks on other computers on the home network can
be configured to update signatures from a specified shared source on the local network.
In this overview we have discussed all the main new features implemented in
Maintenance Pack 1 (MP1) for Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 and Kaspersky Internet Security
6.0. Overall, the maintenance pack significantly improves the computer's protection and
facilitates management of the product. See as well New
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