User Guide

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.
• monitors and displays the status of current "virus weather" status.
• supports subscription to, and unsubscription from, news channels.
• automatically downloads news from subscribed channels at specified
intervals, and provides notification of new events.
• supports review of news from subscribed channels.
• supports review of the lists of channels and their status.
• allows opening pages of detailed news in your web browser.
Kaspersky Lab News Agent can be used independently or it may be bundled with
the integrated solutions offered by Kaspersky Lab.
Attention! Kaspersky Lab News Agent handles all network communica-
tions using the HTTP protocol (port 80) and proxy server settings
specified in your web browser. You can change the connection settings
(details see section 3.13, page 16).