KASPERSKY LAB Kaspersky Lab News Agent User manual
KASPERSKY LAB NEWS AGENT User manual © Kaspersky Lab http://www.kaspersky.
Contents CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER 2. PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION ............................................................... 5 CHAPTER 3. GETTING STARTED................................................................................ 7 3.1. "Virus weather" ...................................................................................................... 9 3.2. Channels.........................................
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION Kaspersky Lab News Agent (hereinafter referred to as "Kaspersky Lab News Agent" or "the application") provides on-line delivery of news from Kaspersky Lab's news channels, and notifications both about "virus weather" and the arrival of fresh news. The application runs under the Microsoft Windows operating system. Kaspersky Lab News Agent performs the following functions: • automatically updates list of available news channels at specified regular intervals.
CHAPTER 2. PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION Kaspersky Lab News Agent provides online delivery of news from available channels, and notifications both about "virus weather" (presence or absence of a virus epidemic and its severity) and the arrival of fresh news. At specified intervals the application connects to Kaspersky Lab's news server and reads a list of available channels, "virus weather" status and news from the subscribed channels.
Kaspersky Lab News Agent available channel. Having selected a channel in that window you can open a Channel window (see Fig. 2) and read the news, which may contain links to web pages with details, indicated by hyperlinks in a news article. Click these underlined text to open the corresponding web page. You can navigate between the application's main window and the Channel news window using the same methods as in your web browser.
CHAPTER 3. GETTING STARTED When Kaspersky Lab News Agent is launched for the first time it retrieves the list of available news channels and the current "virus weather" status. The application's icon appears in the system tray, and its appearance indicates the current "virus weather" status. Clicking the News Agent application's icon opens Kaspersky Lab News Agent's main window (see Fig. 1), which lists all available channels. Figure 1.
Kaspersky Lab News Agent The user can select and combine the notification methods used (see section 3.12, page 15), however, the News Agent icon in the system tray will start blinking irrespective of the methods you have selected.
Getting started Figure 2. Channel dialog window This toolbar also contains buttons that serve to open the application's Options window, and to exit the application. 3.1. "Virus weather" "Virus weather" is a term used to describe the world situation regarding computer viruses. While Kaspersky Lab News Agent is running, the "virus weather" status is indicated by the application icon in the system tray, and by the icon in all its application windows and by the application icon.
Kaspersky Lab News Agent You can: • subscribe to a channel; Kaspersky Lab News Agent will read news from that channel and inform you of the arrival of fresh news; • unsubscribe from a channel to which you are subscribed; the application will discontinue reading news from that channel; • refrain from subscribing to a channel. There are some channels, which are obligatory for subscription. Subscription status is displayed in the channel list within the application's man window (see Fig. 1).
Getting started The subscription icons in the application's main window reflect the current status of each channel's subscription. You can change the subscription status of a channel, from "subscribed" to "unsubscribed" and vice versa, by clicking the application icon. 3.5. Notification The application will notify you upon the arrival of fresh news from a subscribed channel, or when a new channel becomes available. The default notification is that the application icon begins blinking.
Kaspersky Lab News Agent Menu item Purpose About… Displays the application's version number Exit Closes News Agent. The application will be unloaded from the RAM Table 3. Right-click menu items Figure 3. Right-click menu 3.8. Kaspersky Lab News Agent window This window (see Fig. 1) displays a list of channels as a table of three columns.
Getting started 13 You can hide channels to which you are not subscribed so that they are not displayed in the channels list. In order to do this select the button. Attention! Some channels are obligatory for subscription; you cannot cancel subscription to those. Their subscription icon looks like this: . The second column shows channel status (see Table 2).
Kaspersky Lab News Agent 3.10. Toolbar The toolbar is located above the application workspace. You can click the toolbar buttons to initiate application actions.
Getting started The application will display the Options dialog window (see Fig. 4). Using the General tab, you can configure the News Agent to start at the operating system startup, select the font size for displaying the news, configure the notification method and specify the server polling interval. Using the Connection tab, you can configure the method of using the proxy server and the proxy server settings. Figure 4. Options dialog window 3.12.
Kaspersky Lab News Agent Using this tab you can configure the following settings: • Launch the program at operating system startup – starts the News Agent when you restart your operating system. • Font Size – select the font size to display the news (small, medium or large). • Check every – select a time interval for checking for available channels and news on the channels you subscribed to. The internal is specified by selecting a required value and the time unit (days, hours, minutes).
Getting started Figure 5. The Connection tab of the Options dialog box You can select one of the following options: • Do not use proxy server – work without using the proxy server. • Use proxy server settings from MS Internet Explorer options – use a proxy server with Microsoft Internet Explorer settings in order to connect to the internet. This is the recommended mode for using a proxy server.
Kaspersky Lab News Agent 3.14. Launching the application If the Launch the program at operating system startup checkbox is enabled within the General tab of the Options window (see Fig. 4), then Kaspersky Lab News Agent will launch automatically after system startup. If the checkbox is disabled or you have closed the application, you can launch it again manually. To launch Kaspersky Lab News Agent: 1.
APPENDIX A. KASPERSKY LAB Founded in 1997, Kaspersky Lab has become a recognized leader in information security technologies. It produces a wide range of data security software and delivers high-performance, comprehensive solutions to protect computers and networks against all types of malicious programs, unsolicited and unwanted email messages, and hacker attacks. Kaspersky Lab is an international company.
Kaspersky Lab News Agent A.1. Other Kaspersky Lab Products Kaspersky Anti-Virus® Personal ® Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal has been designed to provide anti-virus protection to personal computers running Windows 98/ME or Windows 2000/NT/XP against all known viruses, including potentially dangerous software. Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal provides real-time monitoring of all sources of virus intrusion - e-mail, internet, CD, etc.
Appendix A 21 unknown viruses. Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal includes many interface enhancements, making it easier than ever to use the program.
Kaspersky Lab News Agent Kaspersky® Personal Security Suite Kaspersky® Personal Security Suite is a program suite designed for organizing comprehensive protection of personal computers running Windows. The suite prevents malicious and potentially dangerous programs from penetrating through any possible data sources and protects you from unauthorized attempts to access your computer’s data, as well as blocking spam.
Appendix A • File servers running Windows NT 4.0 Server, Windows 2000/2003 Server/Advanced Server, Windows 2003 Server, Novell Netware, FreeBSD and OpenBSD, Linux, Samba Servers; • E-mail clients, namely Microsoft Exchange Notes/Domino, Postfix, Exim, Sendmail, and Qmail; • Internet-gateways: CheckPoint Firewall –1; Microsoft ISA Server 2000 Standard Edition.
Kaspersky Lab News Agent You are free to choose from any of these anti-virus applications, according to the operating systems and applications you use. ® Kaspersky Anti-Spam Kaspersky® Anti-Spam is a cutting-edge software suite that is designed to help organizations with small- and medium-sized networks wage war against the onslaught of undesired e-mail (spam).
Appendix A presence of viruses and other malware (Spyware, Adware, etc.) and performs centralized anti-spam filtration of the e-mail messages flow. This solution also includes some additional mail traffic filtration features. A.2. Contact Us If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please refer them to one of our distributors or directly to Kaspersky Lab. We will be glad to assist you in any matters related to our product by phone or via email.
APPENDIX B. LICENSE AGREEMENT End User License Agreement NOTICE TO ALL USERS: CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING LEGAL AGREEMENT ("AGREEMENT") FOR THE LICENSE OF SPECIFIED SOFTWARE ("SOFTWARE") PRODUCED BY KASPERSKY LAB ("KASPERSKY LAB"). IF YOU HAVE PURCHASED THIS SOFTWARE VIA THE INTERNET BY CLICKING THE ACCEPT BUTTON, YOU (EITHER AN INDIVIDUAL OR A SINGLE LEGAL ENTITY) CONSENT TO BE BOUND BY AND BECOME PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT.
Appendix B 27 THIS CASE, KASPERSKY LAB WILL NOT BE HELD BY THE PARTNER'S CLAUSES. THE RIGHT TO RETURN AND REFUND EXTENDS ONLY TO THE ORIGINAL PURCHASER. All references to "Software" herein shall be deemed to include the software activation key ("Key Identification File") with which you will be provided by Kaspersky Lab as part of the Software. 1. License Grant.
Kaspersky Lab News Agent steps to achieve interoperability, provided that you only reverse engineer or decompile the Software to the extent permitted by law. 1.1.4 You shall not make error corrections to, or otherwise modify, adapt, or translate the Software, nor create derivative works of the Software, nor permit any third party to copy the Software (other than as expressly permitted herein). 1.1.
Appendix B 29 described herein. Upon any termination or expiration of this Agreement, you must immediately destroy all copies of the Software and the Documentation. You may terminate this Agreement at any point by destroying all copies of the Software and the Documentation. 3. Support.
Kaspersky Lab News Agent You shall implement reasonable security measures to protect such confidential information, but without limitation to the foregoing shall use best endeavours to maintain the security of the Key Identification File. 6. Limited Warranty.
Appendix B 31 (whether such losses or damage were foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise): (a) Loss of revenue; (b) Loss of actual or anticipated profits (including for loss of profits on contracts); (c) Loss of the use of money; (d) Loss of anticipated savings; (e) Loss of business; (f) Loss of opportunity; (g) Loss of goodwill; (h) Loss of reputation; (i) Loss of, damage to or corruption of data, or: (j) Any indirect or consequential loss or damage howsoever caused (including, for the avoidance of do
