Antivirus Overview

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

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.
• Module managed alerts.
• Windows Security Center checking.
• Upgrade Ready option to help you identify and upgrade out-of-date Antivirus clients.
• Policy Management can manage the assignment of Antivirus profiles.
• Specialized agent procedures are provided with Antivirus that enable you to "pre-deploy" the Antivirus installer package to endpoints, reducing required bandwidth. See the knowledge base article.
• Customize the user interface of the Antivirus client on the endpoint.

  Note: Antivirus 6.5 supports both Kaspersky version 10 and legacy version 6, for workstation and server endpoints. Specialized profiles are provided to manage each type of machine. Kasperksy version 2010 endpoints are not supported in Antivirus 6.5. Antivirus 6.5 only installs or upgrades endpoints to Kaspersky version 10. Version 10 is strongly recommended. You can upgrade a Kaspersky version 6 endpoint to Kaspersky version 10 using the Install > Upgrade Client Version button on the Control Panel.

LAN Cache

LAN Cache enables multiple machines to retrieve the same files from a local LAN machine instead of repeatedly downloading them from the Kaseya Server. This reduces network bandwidth issues. Files downloaded for Antivirus endpoints—install packages, updates and antivirus definitions—use LAN Cache automatically, if LAN Cache is already configured for those endpoints. No additional configuration in Antivirus is required. See Agent > LAN Cache for more information.

Note: See Antivirus System Requirements.