User Guide - Kaspersky Lab

CHAPTER 17. PROGRAM
UPDATES
Keeping your anti-virus software up-to-date is an investment in your computer’s
security. Because new viruses, Trojans, and malicious software emerge daily, it
is important to regularly update the application to keep your information
constantly protected.
Updating the application involves the following components being downloaded
and installed on your computer:
• Anti-virus database, firewall database, and network drivers
Information on your computer is protected using a database containing
threat signatures and network attack profiles. The software components
that provide protection use the database of threat signatures to search for
and disinfect harmful objects on your computer. The databases are added
to every hour, with records of new threats and methods to combat them.
Therefore, it is recommended that they are updated on a regular basis.
In addition to the threat signatures and the network attack database,
network drivers that enable protection components to intercept network
traffic are updated.
Previous versions of Kaspersky Lab applications have supported
standard and extended databases sets. Each database dealt with
protecting your computer against different types of dangerous objects. In
Kaspersky Internet Security you don’t need to worry about selecting the
appropriate databases set. Now our products use databases that protect
both from malware and riskware, as well as hacker attacks.
• Application modules
In addition to the application databases, you can upgrade the modules for
Kaspersky Internet Security. New application updates appear regularly.
The main update source for Kaspersky Internet Security is Kaspersky Lab’s
update servers. To download available updates from the update servers, your
computer must be connected to the Internet.
Your computer has to be connected to the Internet to be able to download
updates from update servers. In that event that connection to the Internet is
through a proxy server, you will need to configure connection settings (cf. 19.7,
p. 266).