Appendix B. Glossary - KAPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS 5.0 - FOR WINDOWS WORKSTATIONS Administrator's Manual

APPENDIX B. GLOSSARY

These documents use terms and concepts specific to the field of anti-virus
protection. This glossary serves as a dictionary containing definitions for those
concepts. For convenience, the glossary is arranged in alphabetic order.
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Administration agent – a special application which provides for interaction
between an administration server and applications from the corporate
products of Kaspersky Lab. It is included in Kaspersky Administration
Kit 5.0.
Administration console – a component providing a graphic interface for
managing Kaspersky Anti-Virus. Included in Kaspersky Administration
Kit 5.0.
Administration group – a number of computers combined into a group for
convenient control. The group is managed as a whole entity, may have
a group policy, may include other groups, and may receive
administration commands.
Administration server – a special application functioning as a controller
and centralized data storage for Kaspersky Lab applications installed on
a corporate network. It is included in Kaspersky Administration Kit 5.0.
AdWare – software code for advertisement demonstration added into a
program without informing the users about that. As a rule, adware is
built into free software. The advertisement appears within the program
interface. Such programs frequently collect and transmit to their
developers some personal information about users, change various
browser parameters (home and search pages, security levels, etc.),
generating additional traffic, which users do not control. All of the above
may cause violations of the security policy or even direct financial
losses.
Alternate NTFS streams (NTFS streams) – data streams on a drive with
NTFS file system which supplement the main stream containing its
contents.
Anti-virus database – a database created by Kaspersky Lab specialists
that contains detailed descriptions of all currently existing viruses and
methods for their detection and disinfection. Our anti-virus database is
regularly updated with information about new viruses; therefore, to keep
your computer constantly protected from viruses, you need to keep your
anti-virus database updated.
Anti-virus protection status – current status of anti-virus protection that
characterizes the security level for your computer.
Application management plug-in – a specialized component which
provides an interface for remote control of application through an