Chapter 4. Working With Kaspersky Anti-Virus; Anti-Virus Database Updating - KAPERSKY Anti-Virus 5.0 for Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD File Server Administrator's Manual

CHAPTER 4. WORKING WITH
KASPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS
The product's functionality lies in the tasks that the administrator can perform
with its help. The tasks implemented by Kaspersky Anti-Virus
into three groups:
1. Update of the anti-virus database used to scan for viruses and to
clean any infected objects.
2. Antiviral protection of the server's file systems.
Each of these groups consists of more specific tasks that implement particular
functions of the product. In this chapter, we shall consider the most interesting
tasks. Depending on the business specifics, the administrator can combine them
or make them more complex.
Where possible, we shall describe setting up and running tasks both locally,
using the command line, and remotely, using the Webmin program.
For all the tasks described below, it is presupposed that the
administrator has adjusted the post-installation settings (see Chapter 3
on page 19).

4.1. Anti-virus database updating

An essential part of comprehensive antiviral protection is anti-virus database
updating. The anti-virus database used by Kaspersky Anti-Virus
infected files and disinfect them can be downloaded from Kaspersky Labs'
update servers. Some of these are
http://downloads1.kaspersky-labs.com/updates/
http://downloads2.kaspersky-labs.com/updates/
ftp://downloads1.kaspersky-labs.com/updates/
The addresses that can be used to download updates are listed in the file
servers.lst included in the distribution package. This file has a simple format:
each update server is written on a new line that ends with the line feed symbol.
Update servers may be either http://, or ftp://, or a full Unix path (in this case the
database is updated from the directory).
Anti-virus database updating is carried out by the kavupdater component. During
the updating, the component refers to this list, selects an address (one after
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to scan for