User Guide

Frequently asked questions 93
Advantages of the new updating service include:
• Ability to resume downloading of files after disconnection. Upon
reconnection only files which have not been downloaded are
retrieved.
• Cumulative updates are now half the size. A cumulative update
contains the whole anti-virus database, therefore its size
exceeds considerably the size of typical updates. The new
service employs a special technology which allows using
already existing anti-virus database for a cumulative update.
• Accelerated downloading from the Internet. Kaspersky
Anti-Virus picks up a Kaspersky Lab's updates server located in
your region. Furthermore, servers are allocated according to
their performance, so you will not be sent to an overloaded
server while there is another idle server available.
• Use of key «black lists». Unlicensed and illegal users of
Kaspersky Anti-Virus are now prevented from using the
updating service. Licensed users therefore do not suffer from
inability to contact overloaded updates’ servers.
• Corporate enterprises can now create a local updates' server.
This feature is designed for organizations where a single LAN
unites computers protected by Kaspersky Lab products. Any
computer on the LAN can be turned into an updates’ server that
retrieves updates from the Internet and shares them with the
other networked computers.
Question
: Can an intruder deliberately replace the anti-virus database?
Every anti-virus database has a unique signature verified by Kaspersky
Anti-Virus products while accessing the database. If the signature does
not correspond to the one assigned at the Kaspersky Lab, or the date of
the database is later than that of the license expiry, Kaspersky
Anti-Virus will not use it.
Question: Are the Х architecture processors supported (PowerPC,
SPARC, Alpha, PA-RISC etc.)?
The current version of the product does not support processors of those
types.