New Capabilities Of The Updating Component - KAPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS 5.5 - FOR LINUX-FREEBSD WORKSTATION AND FILE SERVER Administrator's Manual

Using Kaspersky Anti-Virus
update cannot be performed from the address selected, the component switches
to the next URL and makes another attempt.
Updates of the anti-virus database are uploaded to the Kaspersky Lab's
updates servers on an hourly basis.
After the successful update a command specified as the value for the
PostUpdateCmd
configuration file is executed. By default this command starts an automatic reload
of the anti-virus database. In case of an invalid change of the above setting the
application may fail to use the updated database or will function improperly.
All settings of the keepup2date component are grouped in the [up-
dater.*] options of the configuration file.
If the structure of your local area network is complex enough, we recommend
that you download the updates of the anti-virus database from the updates
servers every hour, place them into a network folder and configure the local
computers throughout the network to copy the database from this folder. Details
on the creation of a network folder see section 5.1.4 on page 31.
The update may be scheduled using the cron utility (see section 5.1.2 on page
28) or it may be performed on-demand by the administrator who can run this task
manually from the command line (see section 5.1.3 on page 30).
We strongly recommend that you configure the anti-virus database up-
dates to be performed every hour!
5.1.1. New capabilities of the updating
component
In version 5.5. of Kaspersky Anti-Virus as opposed to the previous versions the
anti-virus database update component has been upgraded. Some existing
functions in the new component have been upgraded and some new capabilities
have been added as follows:
•
the ability to automatically select the closest geographical region to be
used for downloading updates, based on the region specified in the
configuration file;
•
the ability to download and install incremental updates when a
cumulative update is available, which allows to save the network traffic;
•
in case of a disconnection while the anti-virus database is downloaded or
if the updates server was swapped after the connection had been
restored, the component will automatically start downloading the
parameter of the [updater.options]
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