Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows Workstations

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.0 for Windows Workstations

Version 5.0.712 Maintenance Pack 5 Critical Fix 1 Release date: 18.07.2006

Enhancements:

1. The updates speed has been improved.

2. Error due to which the system tray icon visibility settings could not be saved has been fixed.

3. Error in the application installation wizard due to which the installation of the "Use iStreams™ technology" was controlled by the script monitoring task checkbox has been fixed.

4. Error that sometimes caused incorrect display of the backup key expiration date has been fixed.

5. Disknetpro incompatibility error has been fixed.

6. Error that caused the application to fail when viewing the quarantine containing a file with a long name (multiply-nested archives) has been fixed.

7. Error that was slowing down the profile loading during the application start-up has been fixed.

8. Error due to which the exclusions settings did not apply when loaded during the first use of a policy has been fixed.

9. Error due to which the "Virus detected" event for password-protected archives could not be delivered to the Kaspersky Administration Kit Administration Server during the scan with delayed objects processing has been fixed.

10. Error due to which objects could not be restored from the quarantine using the Kaspersky Administration Kit when the "Confirm path before restoring" setting was selected has been fixed.

11. Error due to which the zero size for the files on the computers running Windows 9x was displayed incorrectly in the Kaspersky Administration Kit quarantine storage has been fixed.

12. The ability to use the environment variables in the path when specifying trusted processes using Kaspersky Administration Kit has been added.

13. The ability to manually specify the name and the path to a trusted process using Kaspersky Administration Kit has been added; the hash of the trusted application will be calculated first time it runs.

14. Display of excluded trusted processes details has been added to the real-time protection task report.

15. The "Use general list of exclusions" box is now checked automatically when an exclusion is added from the dialog box with the notification about detection of an infected or a suspicious object.

16. Policies are now applied to the settings of the user object scan tasks and of scan tasks run from the command line and Windows shortcut menu.

17. A new action has been added for processing infected objects during the on-demand scan and real-time protection tasks - "Disinfect, delete if disinfection fails".

18. A new action has been added for processing suspicious objects during the on-demand scan and real-time protection tasks - "Quarantine".

19. Information about completion of the full computer scan in the main application window is now displayed not only for the My Computer object, but also for the object it consists of.

Known problems:

1. Anti-virus database rollback is only possible after the anti-virus database update procedure has been run twice.

2. Network attack protection component is not compatible with OpenVPN.

3. If the "Automatically determine the proxy server settings" setting was selected, the username and the password saved in Microsoft Internet Explorer are not used for the proxy server authorization.

Version 5.0.676 Maintenance Pack 5 Release date: 19.05.2006

Enhancements:

1. The ability to select real-time protection features to be installed has been added.

2. The ability to automatically load settings from a previously created file default.kav_profile has been added.

3. The scheme of scheduled task launch under a certain user's account has been enhanced.

4. An error that occurred during copying files from public folders with real-time protection enabled on the remote computer and disabled on the local computer has been fixed.

5. Error that caused the "blue screen of death" during the scan of objects located on the network drives has been fixed.

6. Error that caused skipping password-protected RAR archives during a scan if the "Prompt for action when the scan is complete" option was selected and the "Do not prompt for password when scanning objects" box was unchecked, has been fixed.

7. An error that sometimes caused invalid installation of the real-time file and mail protection feature during the Kaspersky Anti-Virus update via the Kaspersky Administration Kit Network Agent has been fixed.

8. Error of processing (scanning and adding to the exclusion list) files with filename ended with a space has been fixed.

9. Error that sometimes caused failure to delete blocked files when removing Kaspersky Anti-Virus from a computer running OS Microsoft Windows 9x/Me has been fixed.

10. Updating error that occurred during the replacement of the database in the updates source while a download from this source was in progress has been fixed.

11. Redundancy check error that occurred when scanning the root directory of the disk on which Kaspersky Anti-Virus is installed when running task "Scan at Kaspersky Anti-VIrus launch" has been fixed.

12. Error of updating from UNIX ftp servers that require authorization has been fixed.

13. Restriction on the number of symbols in the "Username" and "Organization" fields has been removed.

14. Error that caused a failure to recognize some existing application settings during the installation of Kaspersky Anti-Virus over version 5.0.225 has been fixed.

15. Error of display of a prompt to restart computer when enabling the network attack protection component using a Kaspersky Administration Kit policy if this component had not been installed on the client computer has been fixed.

16. Error of updating from ftp servers for which relative path was specified has been fixed.

17. Error that sometimes caused a failure to enable the network attack protection feature using a Kaspersky Administration Kit has been fixed.

18. Error that caused an incorrect assignment of the "An installation task has been started on a remote computer" status to a completed deployment task has been fixed.

19. Error related to a delay in applying the application security password when a Kaspersky Administration Kit policy is used for the first time, due to which the user was able to work in the administrator's mode for some time, has been fixed.

20. Error, that cased skipping self-extracting ARJ archives within RAR archives during a scan, has been fixed.

21. Error that caused a Kaspersky Anti-Virus failure when scanning some additional file streams has been fixed.

Known problems:

1. Anti-virus database rollback is only possible after the anti-virus database update procedure has been run twice.

2. Network attack protection component is not compatible with OpenVPN.

3. If the "Automatically determine the proxy server settings" setting was selected, the username and the password saved in Microsoft Internet Explorer are not used for the proxy server authorization.

Version 5.0.528 Critical Fix 2 Release date: 07.04.2006

Enhancements:

1. During the application installation on the previous version the existing group tasks were converted into local tasks which resulted in task duplication

2. When the application was stopped via the Kaspersky Administration Kit plug-in, the status of tasks started before the installation and the status of real-time protection of the computer did not change

3. During the application installation on the previous version the System tasks policy was applied incorrectly

4. During the application installation on the previous version the Network drives scan object could not be imported

5. An error due to which the application icon did not appear in the system try at the operating system startup has been fixed

Known problems:

1. For correct management of Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows Workstations via Kaspersky Administration Kit, the version of Kaspersky Administration Kit should be not earlier than 5.0.1149 (Critical Fix 5)

2. Anti-virus database update rollback option becomes possible only after the anti-virus database is updated twice

3. Incompatibility with OpenVPN

4. Incompatibility of WKS MP4 with version 1.1.50 of Kaspersky Anti-Spam Personal (release Kaspersky Personal Security Suite version 1.1.53)

5. When the option "Automatically detect the proxy server settings" is checked, user name and password, saved in Microsoft Internet Explorer for authorization on a proxy-server, are not used

Version 5.0.527 Maintenance Pack 4 Release date: 21.03.2006

Enhancements:

1. The consumption of computer resources has been considerably reduced

2. Network attacks protection component and network invisibility mode support have been added

3. Interface for creating user-defined scan tasks has been simplified

4. Real-time protection mode configuration has been simplified

5. The algorithm of delayed objects processing in the on-demand scan mode (Treat Infected Files) has been simplified and improved

6. The updating mechanism has been enhanced

7. Network search mechanism has been added

8. The feature of authorization data prompt in case of an authorization error has been added

9. The ability to edit the list of updates servers and to configure the updating process has been added

10. The feature of exceptions configuration by object name, verdict and by components that use this objects has been added

11. The feature of displaying the list of threats detected by the anti-virus database has been implemented

12. Ability to select new objects for scanning has been added: disk boot sectors

13. Ability to temporarily disable real-time protection for a specified time or until a specified event occurs (application restart, obtaining connection to the network) has been added

14. Ability to perform updates from the updates folder with incomplete structure has been added

15. Support of diff files has been added allowing to decrease the size of updates being downloaded

16. Common storage facility for infected objects (GTIF) has been implemented

17. Application password protection mechanism has been modified

18. Application modules updates installation facility has been modified

19. Support for disinfection and deletion of malicious objects in ICE and LHA archives has been implemented

20. Algorithm for working with quarantine has been modified (support for parallel work with the storage, quarantine scan is now a separate task having its own report)

21. An ability to copy lines from the report into the clipboard has been added

22. Updates downloading dialog box has been modified (display of extended statistical data, when an error occurs, detailed information about this error will be displayed)

23. The set of additional application settings has been extended

24. Kaspersky Anti-Virus operation recovery system after errors has been added

25. Behavior of kav.exe in case of a failure in the service process has been modified

26. Ability to configure scan performed at the operating system startup has been added. The on-demand scan settings now additionally include the ability to configure exclusions from the scope of the operating system startup scan (disk boot sectors, system memory and startup objects can be excluded)

27. Setting “Pause anti-virus scan when the system load exceeds” has been added

28. Setting “Do not launch scheduled scan if the battery charge is below” has been moved from the task schedule settings to the additional application settings. Now this setting is common for all tasks

29. Ability for the user to confirm the launch of a scheduled task has been implemented (as was done earlier for the updating task). The launch of the task can be delayed in the corresponding dialog box. The task will be launched automatically in 3 minutes if no option has been selected

30. If you need to reload IDS (new network attacks database or enabling/disabling protection against network attacks) the corresponding information containing the link to be followed in order to reload IDS will be displayed in the real-time protection status

31. Ability has been added to use the environment variables when specifying the scan paths, exclusions, trusted processes, folders in the settings of the updating process, quarantine and backup storage

32. Memory consumption by the Microsoft Internet Explorer during scripts scan has been reduced

33. The sound scheme has changed. Event “Task completion” has been removed, events “Launching on-demand objects scan task”, “Launching scheduled objects scan task”, “Completing objects scan task”, “Error performing objects scan task”, “Launching on-demand update task”, “Launching scheduled update task”, “Completing update task”, “Error performing update task”, “Launching real-time protection task”, “Completing real-time protection task”, “Error performing real-time protection task”, “Network attack detected” have been added

34. Ability has been added to exclude file activities of some software processes specified by the user from the scan scope

35. The on-demand scan task configuration dialog box has been enhanced

36. The following task has been added to the tasks list: "Critical areas scan"

37. Ability to disable the disk boot sectors scan. Previous version did not allow disabling the scan of disk boot sectors when the user selected the "My computer" object or a specific drive (this action particularly did not allow disabling the scan of disk boot sectors in the full computer scan task)

38. Objects placed into the quarantine and the backup storage are now displayed in the Protection tab

39. MSI installer for installing Kaspersky Anti-Virus through the Active Directory has been implemented

40. Setting "Display notifications when a dangerous object is detected" has been added. If this option is activated, the user will be notified about detection of dangerous objects during the execution of on-demand scan tasks (for actions "Perform the recommended action", "Delete objects", "Report only"), real-time protection tasks (for actions "Perform the recommended action", "Block access and delete object", "Block access only"), mail scan tasks (always), scripts monitoring tasks (for actions "Block script execution", "Allow script execution")

41. The "Do not show administrator's tasks" option has been added. If this option is enabled, administrator's tasks will not be displayed on the Protection tab, in the task list and in the application shortcut menu. This setting is configured using the application administration plugin via Kaspersky Administration Kit

42. The "An object infected with a virus detected" event for real-time protection and scripts monitoring tasks now displays the name of the last user that accessed this object

Known problems:

2. Anti-virus database update rollback option becomes possible only after the anti-virus database is updated twice

3. Incompatibility with OpenVPN

4. Incompatibility of WKS MP4 with version 1.1.50 of Kaspersky Anti-Spam Personal (release Kaspersky Personal Security Suite version 1.1.53)

5. When the option "Automatically detect the proxy server settings" is checked, user name and password, saved in Microsoft Internet Explorer for authorization on a proxy-server, are not used