Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010

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	Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010: Critical Fix 1 (build 9.0.0.463) Migration policy to Kaspersky Lab products 2010 Express Installation Guide of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 Starting Vulnerability scan task in Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 What is Kaspersky Toolbar in Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010?

On June, 25th 2009 Kaspersky Laboratory announces commercial release of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010. The full version number is 9.0.0.459.

The concept of your computer protection by Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010:

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 ensures protection of your computer against known and new threats. Each type of threat is processed by a separate application component. This makes setup flexible, with easy configuration options for all components, which can be tailored to the needs of a specific user or the business as a whole.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 includes the following protection tools:

• Protection components  providing protection of:
• files and personal data;
• system;
• network activity.
• Virus scan tasks used to scan individual files, folders, drives, areas or the entire computer for viruses.
• Update, ensuring the up-to-date status of the internal application modules, and the databases used to scan for malicious programs, and to detect network attacks and spam messages.
• Wizards and tools facilitating the execution of tasks occurring during the operation of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010.
• Support features that provide information support for working with the program and expanding its capabilities.

What’s new in Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010?

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 is a comprehensive data protection tool. The multifaceted protection covers all channels for data transfer and exchange. Flexible configuration provided for any component lets users completely adapt Kaspersky Anti-Virus to their specific needs.

Let us take a closer look at the innovations in Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010.

The new in protection:

• New component IM Anti-Virus  ensures safe operation of various applications for instant messaging. Component scans messages for the presence of malicious objects.
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 includes the URL scanning module managed by Web Anti-Virus. This module checks if links located on the web page belong to the list of suspicious and phishing web addresses. This module is built in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers as a plug-in.
• Monitoring access to phishing websites and protection against phishing attacks are performed by scanning links in messages and on web pages, and also by using the database of phishing addresses when an attempt to access websites is detected. You can check web addresses if they are included in the list of phishing web addresses; this option is only available for Web Anti-Virus (and IM Anti-Virus).
• A new tool called vulnerability scan has been added in the list of scan tasks; it makes easy to detect and eliminate security threats and vulnerabilities in the applications installed on your computer and in the operating system's settings.

The new in the interface:

• A new approach to the protection management called My Protection has been implemented. Computer protection is ensured in three different directions: user's files and personal data, operating system objects and applications installed on the computer, and network activity. A specific set of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 components is applied to each of the protection directions. With My Protection, the user can find out which component provides protection for a certain resource category, and quickly switch to editing its settings.
• Wizards and Tools, which help execute specific tasks of providing computer's security, are grouped in the Security+ section.

Main known issues:

• If a threat in OLE object is detected, the application does not suggest user to perform disinfection. Possible actions in this case – place file to quarantine or delete it.
• Web Anti-Virus does not notify user about the downloaded files.
• Problems with display of some files in special defragmentation software - PageDefrag are possible.
• In some cases the "^" key on the virtual keyboard stays pressed. To solve this problem, right-click this key with a mouse.
• Complex filtering works incorrectly in some report windows.
• When the option of logging file system events to application report is enabled, noticeable slowdowns are possible during installation, if Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 is being installed over the previous version.
• During Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 uninstallation registry keys linked to shell extension are not removed.