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T H R E A T L E V E L

An index showing the probability of an application imposing a threat to the operating system. The threat level is

calculated using heuristic analysis based on two types of criteria:

 static (such as information about the executable file of an application: size, creation date, etc.);

 dynamic, which are used while simulating the application's operation in a virtual environment (analysis of the

application's requests to system functions).

Threat level allows detecting behavior typical of malware. The lower the threat level is, the more actions the application

will be allowed to perform in the system.

T R A C E S

Running the application in debugging mode; after each command is executed, the application is stopped, and the result

of this step is displayed.

T R A F F I C S C A N

Real-time scanning that uses information from the current (latest) version of the databases for objects transferred over all

protocols (for example, HTTP, FTP, etc.).

T R U S T G R O U P

A group to which Kaspersky Internet Security places an application or a process depending on the following criteria:

presence of a digital signature, reputation in KSN, trust level of the application source, and potential danger of actions

performed by the application or the process. Based on the trust group to which an application belongs, Kaspersky

Internet Security can restrict the actions that the application may perform.

In Kaspersky Internet Security, applications belong to one of the following trust groups: Trusted, Low Restricted, High

Restricted, or Untrusted.

T R U S T E D P R O C E S S

A program process, whose file operations are not monitored by Kaspersky Lab's application in real-time protection mode.

When detecting a suspicious activity of a trusted process, Kaspersky Internet Security excludes the process from the list

of trusted ones and blocks all of its activities.

U N K N O W N V I R U S

A new virus about which there is no information in the databases. Generally, unknown viruses are detected by the

application in objects using the heuristic analyzer, and those objects are classified as probably infected.

U P D A T E

The procedure of replacing/adding new files (databases or application modules) retrieved from the Kaspersky Lab

update servers.

U P D A T E P A C K A G E

A file package for updating application modules. A Kaspersky Lab's application copies update packages from Kaspersky

Lab's update servers and automatically installs and applies them.

U S E R P R O F I L E

Summary on the user's participation in the Protect a Friend program. The user profile contains the user rating, number of

collected bonus points, a link to the page for downloading Kaspersky Internet Security, and bonus activation codes

granted to the user.

U S E R R A T I N G

The user's activity index when using Kaspersky Internet Security. The user rating is displayed in the user profile and

depends on the settings and the version of the application.