Kaspersky® Anti-Virus

Award-winning antivirus software protects your PC from viruses, Trojans, spyware, rootkits and other malicious programs. Additionally, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 keeps your email and instant messages safe from dangerous worms. Reactive detection methods are combined with the newest proactive technologies to provide balanced and effective security, while automatic updates ensure uninterrupted protection and peace of mind.

Main Advantages

• Highly effective antivirus protection
  
• Optimized for use on laptops
  
• Seamless integration with Microsoft Windows
  
• Simplicity and ease of use

Key Features

• Antivirus protection for email, Internet traffic & file systems
  
• Proactive protection blocks dangerous macros and monitors changes in the system registry
  
• Fast operating speeds with accelerated antivirus scanning & reduced update size

Windows 98 / ME/ NT 4.0 / 2000 Pro / XP Home/Pro / Vista/ IE 5.5


Product Information: Kaspersky Anti-Virus

Critical Fix 2 for Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009.
The full version number is 8.0.0.506.
Nov 19, 2008

IMPROVEMENTS compared to version 8.0.0.454:

• Application self-defense has been improved to resist malicious programs attempts to modify its own files.
• Interaction with Microsoft Windows Security Center.
• Application reaction when malicious programs are trying to put a computer clock forward.

Known issues:

• During first launch of very large (1 GB and larger) executables Kaspersky Anti-Virus analyzes them for a long time (5-10 minutes) displaying no information to users.
• While the virus scan task is running, the counter of checked objects in the report window is not updated. Correct value is only displayed when the task completes.
• Extra Help link appears in the password entry dialog during scanning of password-protected archives. Pressing the link is identical to pressing the Skip button.
• The Security Analyzer Wizard can recognize incorrectly the Windows Update settings in Microsoft Windows Vista.
• If the virus scan task is configured in the Run mode to run After update, the task starts only if the application database has been updated successfully during an update session.
• If you are working with programs running in full-screen mode, the pop-up windows of Kaspersky Anti-Virus may blink. To activate pop-up windows, left-click with the mouse in any part of a pop-up window, then the window of the running full-screen application window will be minimized.

In order to install Critical Fix 2, do the following:

• download version 8.0.0.506 from the Kaspersky Lab’s official site: http://www.kaspersky.com/productupdates
• run the downloaded file
• install the latest product version
• restart your computer

If you are using KIS (Security Suite) go here for changelog & instructions.

Virus Watch
21 November 2009
http://www.kaspersky.com/viruswatchlite?hour_offset=-11

Note: The KAV website has changed the way it posts updates. The above link will be updated there every few minutes as new defs are added. We will post this link once a day.