What's New In Version 5.0 - KAPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS 5.0 - FOR WINDOWS WORKSTATIONS Administrator's Manual

Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows Workstations
where you can disinfect, delete them, restore them to the original folder or
send them to the Kaspersky Lab's experts for analysis. Quarantined files
are stored in a special format and do not impose any threat.
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Creating backup copies of objects – creating special backup copies of
objects in a special storage before attempting to disinfect or delete these
objects. Such copies are created for the cases when you need to restore
the original object if it contains valuable information or to restore the
situation when the infection took place. Copies are stored in a special
format and do not impose any threat.
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Creating reports – registering all results of Kaspersky Anti-Virus
operation in the reports. A detailed report about the results of the scan
includes the general statistical information about objects scanned, stores
information about the settings used to perform tasks and about the order
of scan and processing of each particular object. Reports are also created
for the results of the updates and of the operation in the real-time
protection mode.
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Centralized remote management of the application – controlling the
application using the Kaspersky Administration Kit 5.0 centralized
administration system.
Some functions of Kaspersky Anti-Virus are available from the
command line (details see Chapter 9 on page 181).

1.1. What's new in version 5.0?

Version 5.0 of Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows Workstations differs from
the previous 4.x version as follows:
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The use of the anti-virus scan acceleration technologies: iChecker™ and
iStreams™: Now Kaspersky Anti-Virus does not re-scan objects that have
been analyzed during a previous scan and have not been altered since
then not only in the real-time protection mode, but also during an on-
demand scan. This feature ensures a considerable acceleration of the
application's operation.
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Scan and disinfection of mail sent or received by any mail client
application using SMTP and POP3 protocols. Previous versions ensured
anti-virus mail protection only for Microsoft Office Outlook.
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Disinfection of infected archives. Kaspersky Anti-Virus allows disinfecting
infected files contained in zip, arj, cab, rar, lha and ice archives. Previous
versions of the application provided only for detection of infected files in
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