User Guide

CHAPTER 8. USING LICENSES
The license key grants you the right to use the product. It contains all the
necessary information related to the license you have purchased, such as
license type, expiration date, distributor information, etc.
The license key for Kaspersky Anti-Virus is issued for a certain period (as a rule,
it is one year from the purchase date) and is limited by either the daily mail traffic
processed by the application or the number of protected email addresses. In the
latter case, the application scans email traffic for the domains specified in the
application configuration file and for the servers on which the application is
installed.
When the Kaspersky Anti-Virus license expires, the application will continue its
operation, but it will be unable to further update its anti-virus databases. The
Anti-Virus will continue to cure infected objects, but it will use its old databases.
Besides the right to use the product during the period of license validity, you are
entitled to the following:
• round-the-clock technical support;
• hourly updates of the anti-virus databases;
• software updates (patches);
• new software versions (upgrades);
• timely notifications about new viruses.
These benefits also expire with the license. Kaspersky Anti-Virus will continue
scanning your server mail traffic, but it will only use the anti-virus database that
was current at the time that the license expired. The updating function will be
unavailable. If you try to update the database manually, the application will stop
working.
Therefore, it is very important to periodically check the information contained in
the license key and keep track of its expiry date.
If your license is limited by mail traffic, it provides protection only of a certain
amount of daily mail traffic specified in the license key. If daily mail traffic
exceeds the license limit, the administrator will be prompted for the need to
purchase a license for the amount of extra traffic.
If your license is issued for the specified numbers of mail addresses, it will
extend to all addresses of the domains listed in the kavmilter.conf configuration
file (LicensedUsersDomains parameter) and to all addresses of the server on
which Kaspersky Anti-Virus is installed (the server addresses do not belong to