User Guide

8 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.
Channel status icon reflects the current channel status:
Icon Meaning
The channel has just been added to the list of available
channels
No subscription to the channel
The channel is currently being read
Channel inaccessible – there may be no connection to the Internet
Channel contains fresh news
Channel contains unread news
Channel contains read news only
Table 2. Channel status icons
Clicking a channel name opens a Channel window (see Fig. 2) that contains
news.
Each news article includes a line with the date and time of its publication and a
short extract from the item. This line serves as a link to a page with the detailed
text of the article. The short text contains underlined links, clicking any of which
will open the corresponding web page in your browser.
All application windows have a toolbar similar to a browser toolbar that is used
for navigation between the channel list and the channel windows. Links to visited
and opened channels are highlighted with in a different colour from those to
unvisited channels.