User manual KASPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS 8.0 FOR MAC

[. . . ] Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Mac USER GUIDE PROGRAM VERSION: 8. 0 CRITICAL FIX 2 Dear User!We hope that this documentation will help you in your work and will provide answers regarding this software product. Any type of reproduction and distribution of any materials, including translation thereof, is allowed only by a written permission of Kaspersky Lab. This document and graphic images related to it can be used exclusively for information, non-commercial or personal purposes. [. . . ] If you purchase a retail, boxed version of the application, the activation code will be printed on the envelope containing the installation disk. The activation code is a sequence of numbers and letters delimited with hyphens in four groups of five symbols without spaces, for example: 11AA1-11AAA-1AA11-1A111. Please note that the activation code should only be entered in Latin characters. RECEIVING KEY FILE The Activation assistant connects to Kaspersky Lab's servers and sends them registration data (activation code and contact information), to be verified by the server. If the activation code is verified, the Assistant will receive a key from the server. If you are installing a trial version of the application, the Activation assistant will receive a trial key file without needing an activation code. The file will be automatically installed to ensure the application's operability, and the activation completion window will open, showing detailed information about the key. When this activation method is selected, Kaspersky Anti-Virus does not download a physical key file (with . key extension) from the server, but receives the relevant information to save in the operating system. To obtain a real key file, you must complete the user registration at Kaspersky Lab's website. If the activation code is not verified, the Assistant will display this information on the screen. In this case, contact the software vendor you purchased Kaspersky Anti-Virus from, for information. SELECTING THE KEY FILE If you have a key file for Kaspersky Anti-Virus, the Assistant window will ask if you want to install it. To do this, use the Select button and select the path for the file (with the . key extension) in the standard file selection window. 73 KASPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS Information about the current key will be displayed in the bottom part of the window, including the key number, the key type (commercial, trial, etc. ), and the license key expiration date. COMPLETING ACTIVATION The Activation assistant will inform you that the application has been successfully activated. In addition, information about the installed key is displayed, including key number, key type (for instance, commercial or trial), and the license key's expiration date. 74 QUARANTINE Quarantine is a special repository containing the objects that could have been infected with viruses. Potentially infected objects are objects that are suspected of being infected with viruses or modifications of them. Why are objects detected as potentially infected?It is not always possible to exactly determine whether an object is infected or not. This could be for the following reasons: The code of the object being analyzed resembles a known threat but is partially altered. Kaspersky Anti-Virus databases contain the information on the threats investigated to date by Kaspersky Lab specialists. If a malicious program is modified and these changes are not yet entered into the databases, Kaspersky Anti-Virus classifies the object infected with the modified malicious program as a potentially infected object and will indicate without fail what threat this infection resembles. The code of the object detected resembles a malicious program by its structure; however, nothing similar is recorded in the Kaspersky Anti-Virus databases. It is quite possible that this is a new type of threat, so Kaspersky Anti-Virus classifies that object as a potentially infected object. A potentially infected object can be detected and quarantined in the course of Virus Scan (see section "Scanning for viruses" on page 43), or by File Anti-Virus (see section "Anti-virus protection of your computer's file system" on page 30). You can quarantine an object by yourself by clicking the Quarantine button in the special notification window (see section "Notifications" on page 87) that pops up when a potentially infected object is detected. [. . . ] Today it is the leading developer of a wide range of high-performance information security software products, including anti-virus, anti-spam and anti-hacking systems. Kaspersky Lab is an international company. Headquartered in the Russian Federation, the company has offices in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, the Benelux countries, China, Poland, Romania and the USA (California). A new company office, the European Anti-Virus Research Centre, has recently been established in France. [. . . ]