What's New In Version 5.0 - KAPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS 5.0 - FOR NOVELL NETWARE User Manual

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Introduction
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.0 for Novell NetWare ensures a high level of protection
for corporate networks running Novell NetWare.

1.2. What's new in version 5.0

The main difference in Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.0 for Novell NetWare compared to
all the previous versions is that server protection control is now based on tasks
that maximize the functionality of the application. This makes it possible to create
a more flexible server antiviral protection system due to the creation and launch-
ing of different types of tasks with different settings. Thanks to the possibility of
the tasks batch setup, adjustment of the protection is much simpler and less
time-consuming.
In the real-time server protection mode the files are not only scanned when they
are created or opened, but also when they are modified.
The application can be installed on a group of servers directly from the distribu-
tion package.
The antiviral engine, which scans the files for viruses, is executed in a protected
address space. Such an approach increases application reliability since the op-
erational capability of the application and of the whole file server is not affected in
the event of any contingency during file scanning.
The application performance (the number of simultaneously scanned connec-
tions) can be increased by running more than one copy of the antiviral engine on
several processors at the same time.
New features have been added such as the opportunity of notifying network us-
ers about detected infected or suspicious objects via the SMTP protocol. Previ-
ously, information regarding infected and suspicious objects was only distributed
via the Novell NetWare network. With the current version all users concerned
can be notified by e-mail too.
The logging system has been considerably improved. This provides the adminis-
trator with quick, convenient and unified access to the task execution results, and
allows filtering, sorting and merging of the data. The logs are stored in the txt and
xml (htm) formats and can be viewed in standard software such as Internet Ex-
plorer.
It is now possible to cancel the latest update of the anti-virus database used for
scanning the server for viruses. This opportunity is provided by the backup copy
of the anti-virus database created prior to its update.
This version does not support the function of controlling the application via
NWAdmin (Novell NetWare Administrator).