User Guide

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. All communication with the server is performed via the
HTTP protocol (port 80). You can change the connection settings (details see
section 3.13, page 16).
The "virus weather" status is displayed as an icon in the system tray and in
Kaspersky Lab News Agent windows. The "virus weather" status has three
possible states:
Icon Meaning
Clear
Cloudy
Danger! — virus epidemic
Table 1. “Virus weather” icons in Kaspersky Lab News Agent
You can subscribe to or unsubscribe from channels using the Kaspersky Lab
News Agent main window (see Fig. 1).
Upon receipt of a channel list the application provides notification of the
appearance of any new channels, which are then available for subscription.
The application reads a list of news for every subscribed channel and provides
notification of the arrival of any fresh news.
Notification is provided by the application icon in the system tray, which starts
blinking. Additional methods of notification can be specified within the General
tab (see Fig. 4) of the application's Options dialog window.
The application's main window (see Fig. 1), which can be opened by right-
clicking the application icon in the system tray, displays the status of each