F-SECURE CLIENT SECURITY 8.00 Administrator's Manual page 20

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System Control
System Control is a new, host-based intrusion prevention system that
analyzes the behavior of files and programs. It provides an extra-layer of
protection by blocking undiscovered viruses, worms, and other malicious
code that try to perform harmful actions on your computer. For more
information, see "Configuring System
Automatic Updates
The Automatic Updates feature keeps the virus and spyware definitions
always up-to-date. The virus definitions updates are signed by F-Secure
Anti-Virus Research Team. The signature is based on strong encryption
and the packet cannot be altered in transit.
In case of complex viruses the virus definitions updates include removal
tools that are executable binaries. The integrity of the delivered
executable code is very important, and F-Secure scanning engines check
that all update code is signed by F-Secure Anti-Virus Research. If the
integrity is compromised, the code will not be executed. For more
information, see "Configuring Automatic
F-Secure Automatic Update Agent
With F-Secure Automatic Update Agent, you are able to receive virus
definition updates and informational content without interrupting your
work to wait for files to download from the Web. F-Secure Automatic
Update Agent downloads files automatically in the background using
bandwidth not being used by other Internet applications, so you can
always be sure they will have the latest updates without having to search
the Web.
If the F-Secure Automatic Update Agent is always connected to the
Internet, it will automatically receive new virus definition updates after
they have been published by F-Secure.
When the F-Secure Automatic Update Agent service is started, it
connects to F-Secure's Automatic Update Server. The agent will keep
polling the server regularly to see whether there is new content available.
The agent downloads only the parts of virus definitions that have changed
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