Chapter 3. Application Management Concepts - KAPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS 5.0 - FOR WINDOWS WORKSTATIONS Administrator's Manual

CHAPTER 3. APPLICATION
MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS
Kaspersky Anti-Virus is installed on a workstation and can be controlled locally or
remotely through Kaspersky Administration Kit (if the computer is included into
the centralized administration system).
There are several categories of users working with Kaspersky Anti-Virus:
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Workstation user is the computer user for the workstation on which
Kaspersky Anti-Virus is installed.
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Anti-virus
administrator) performs local management of Kaspersky Anti-Virus.
•
Logical network administrator controls Kaspersky Anti-Virus operation via
the centralized remote administration system Kaspersky Administration
Kit.
Each user category is assigned its own interface providing access to all the
software features which that category can use in accordance with their
respective privileges.
The user interface is optimized for efficiency and simplicity and allows
performance of the following tasks:
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review of status information pertaining to anti-virus protection;
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run file system objects scan tasks;
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update the anti-virus database and application modules (if such feature
has been enabled by the administrator);
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review the results of tasks performance and the events log;
•
review the content of Quarantine and Backup storage and send
quarantined files to Kaspersky Lab for analysis.
In addition to the user's tasks, the extended administrator's interface provides
for easy and flexible configuration of Kaspersky Anti-Virus operation and
performance of the following tasks:
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modify settings of the real-time anti-virus protection tasks;
•
create, manage and schedule tasks for scanning file system objects and
update tasks;
security administrator (hereinafter referred to as