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UPDATE
Updating databases and program modules of Kaspersky Small Office Security ensures the up-to-date protection status
for your computer. New viruses, Trojans, and other types of malware appear worldwide on a daily basis. Kaspersky
Small Office Security databases contain information about threats and ways of eliminating them, so regular application
update is required for ensuring your computer's security and for timely detection of new threats.
Regular update requires an active license for application usage. Without a license, you will only be able to update the
application once.
Application update downloads and installs the following updates on your computer:
Kaspersky Small Office Security databases.
The protection of information is based on databases which contain signatures of threats and network attacks,
and the methods used to fight them. Protection components use these databases to search for and disinfect
dangerous objects on your computer. The databases are supplemented every hour with records of new threats.
Therefore, you are advised to update them on a regular basis.
In addition to the Kaspersky Small Office Security databases, the network drivers that enable the application's
components to intercept network traffic are updated.
Application modules.
In addition to the databases of Kaspersky Small Office Security, you can also update the program modules. The
update packages fix Kaspersky Small Office Security's vulnerabilities, and supplement or improve the existing
functionality.
The main update source of Kaspersky Small Office Security are special Kaspersky Lab update servers. While updating
Kaspersky Small Office Security, you can copy database and program module updates received from Kaspersky Lab
servers into a local folder, providing access to other networked computers. This saves Internet traffic.
You can also modify automatic update startup settings.
Your computer should be connected to the Internet for successful downloading of updates from our servers. By default,
the Internet connection settings are determined automatically. If you use a proxy server, you may need to adjust the
connection settings.
During an update, the application modules and databases on your computer are compared with the up-to-date version at
the update source. If your current databases and modules differ from those in the actual version of the application, the
lacking portion of updates will be installed on your computer.
If the databases are outdated, the update package may be large, which may cause additional Internet traffic (up to
several dozen MB).
Prior to updating the databases, Kaspersky Small Office Security creates backup copies of them if you want to roll back
to the previous version of databases (see section "Rolling back the last update" on page 76).
Information about the current condition of Kaspersky Small Office Security databases is displayed in the Update Center
section of the main application window.
Information on the update results and events, which have occurred during the execution of the update task, is logged in a
Kaspersky Small Office Security report.