KAPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS 5.5 - FOR LINUX-FREEBSD WORKSTATION AND FILE SERVER Administrator's Manual page 71

Appendix B
Kaspersky Lab shortens the anti-virus database update interval at their
servers every year. Now the anti-virus database is updated at the server
every three hours.
An additional feature available is the updating of the Anti-Virus applica-
tion modules that ensures repairing of detected vulnerabilities or offers
new functionality.
Question: What changed in the update service starting with version 5.0?
The new Kaspersky Lab's range of products, starting with version 5.0,
features a new update service. This service was developed based on
the users' feedback and marketing requirements. Additionally, the de-
velopers had a task to increase the processability of the entire updates
procedure starting with creation of updates at Kaspersky Lab through
file updates at the user's side.
The advantages of the new update service are as follows:
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not have to download over again those updates that you al-
ready received if a disconnection from the network occurred.
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cumulative update contains the entire anti-virus database,
therefore its size considerably exceeds the size of a regular up-
date. The new service uses a special technology that allows us-
ing the database you already have for the cumulative update.
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Kaspersky Anti-Virus selects the Kaspersky Lab's updates
server located in your region. Additionally, the load on the
server will be distributed in accordance with their throughput, it
means that you will not be connected to an overloaded server
while another server is idle.
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be performed by those users who do not have license for using
Kaspersky Anti-Virus. Therefore properly licensed users will not
suffer from the servers overload.
Resuming downloading in case of a disconnection. Now you do
The cumulative updates size has been decreased in half. The
Downloading updates from the internet has become faster. Now
The use of key "black lists". This allows preventing updates to
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