User Guide

Frequently asked questions 75
Every year Kaspersky Lab increases the frequency of its updates issued
for the anti-virus databases. Currently they are updated every hour.
Updating of the application modules is an additional feature that allows
both correction of discovered vulnerabilities and addition of new
functions.
Question
: What are the changes to the updating service since version
5.0?
The Kaspersky Lab 5.0 product suite features a new updating service,
which has been developed in accordance with the requests of our
users. It automates the whole updating procedure, from the preparation
of updates in Kaspersky Lab to the moment that relevant files are
updated on clients' computers.
Advantages of the new updating service include:
• Ability to resume downloading of files after disconnection. Upon
reconnection only files which have not been downloaded are
retrieved.
• Cumulative updates are now half the size. A cumulative update
contains the whole anti-virus database, therefore its size
exceeds considerably the size of typical updates. The new
service employs a special technology which allows using
already existing anti-virus database for a cumulative update.
• Accelerated downloading from the Internet. Kaspersky SMTP-
Gateway picks up a Kaspersky Lab's updates server located in
your region. Furthermore, servers are allocated according to
their performance, so you will not be sent to an overloaded
server while there is another idle server available.
• Use of key «black lists». Unlicensed and illegal users of
Kaspersky SMTP-Gateway are now prevented from using the
updating service. Licensed users therefore do not suffer from
inability to contact overloaded updates’ servers.
• Corporate enterprises can now create a local updates' server.
This feature is designed for organizations where a single LAN
unites computers protected by Kaspersky Lab products. Any
computer on the LAN can be turned into an updates’ server that
retrieves updates from the Internet and shares them with the
other networked computers.