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Antivirus Overview

Antivirus (KAV) provides Kaspersky Antivirus endpoint security for managed machines. Antivirus can be installed independently of Endpoint Security or Anti-Malware.

Antivirus ensures protection of your computer against known and new threats. Each type of threat is processed by separate application components, each of which can be enabled or disabled by configuration profile. Configuration profiles enable you to quickly apply different types of Antivirus solutions to many machines at the same time.

Antivirus includes the following protection tools:

  • Memory-resident protection components for:
    • Servers and workstations, with separate licensing for each
    • Files and personal data
    • System
    • Network
  • Scheduled, recurring virus scans of individual files, folders, drives, areas or the entire computer.
  • Updates of the Antivirus clients and its components, as well as the Antivirus definition databases used to scan for malicious programs.
  • Status dashboard for all Antivirus managed machines.
  • A Detections page for all virus threats not automatically resolved by Antivirus.
  • Event managed alerts.
  • Windows Security Center checking.
  • Specialized agent procedures are installed with Antivirus that enable you to deploy the Antivirus installer package to endpoints. To reduce KServer download bandwidth, the installer package gets deployed to a local file share location then distributed to endpoints for installation.

Note: See Antivirus System Requirements.

Functions

Description

Machines

Installs and uninstalls Antivirus software on selected machines and provides a detailed view of the Antivirus status of any selected machine.

Dashboards

Displays a dashboard view of the status of all machines installed with Antivirus.

Detections

Displays virus threats you can take action on.

Profiles

Manages Antivirus profiles that are assigned to machine IDs.