Kaspersky lab PERSONAL SECURITY SUITE 1.0 User Manual

KASPERSKY LAB

Kaspersky® Personal Security Suite 1.0

Installation, Updating and Removal Manual

KASPERSKY® PERSONAL SECURITY SUITE 1.0

Installation, Updating and

Removal Manual

© Kaspersky Lab

http://www.kaspersky.com

Revision Date: December, 2004

Contents

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................... 4

1.1. Kaspersky® Personal Security Suite..................................................................... 4

1.1.1. Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal....................................................................... 4

1.1.2. Kaspersky Anti-Spam Personal ..................................................................... 6

1.1.3. Kaspersky Anti-Hacker................................................................................... 7

1.2. Hardware and software system requirements ..................................................... 9

CHAPTER 2. INSTALLING THE PRODUCT ON YOUR COMPUTER...................... 10

CHAPTER 3. UPDATING THE PRODUCT COMPONENTS ..................................... 16

CHAPTER 4. REMOVING THE PRODUCT COMPONENTS.................................... 17

APPENDIX A. KASPERSKY LAB................................................................................. 19

APPENDIX B. LICENSE AGREEMENT....................................................................... 25

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION

1.1. Kaspersky® Personal Security
Suite

Kaspersky® Personal Security Suite is a new Kaspersky Lab’s product that
includes three Kaspersky Lab’s personal software products integrated together
and designed to protect computers running Windows operating system. This is
an integrated data protection solution that ensures protection against malware,
unsolicited e-mail messages (spam), unauthorized access to user’s data and
hackers attacks.

Kaspersky Personal Security Suite includes the following data protection
components:

• Kaspersky Anti-Virus

stored on the user’s computer. This component detects and eliminates
malware that penetrates computers from removable and permanent
storage devices, via e-mail and internet protocols.

• Kaspersky Anti-Spam

Microsoft Outlook Express e-mail client programs against unsolicited e­mail messages (spam).

• Kaspersky Anti-Hacker

computers running Windows operating system against unauthorized
access to data and against hackers attacks from the local area network
the computer is connected to or from the internet.

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Personal ensures anti-virus protection of data

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Personal protects users of Microsoft Outlook and

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is a personal firewall that is designed to protect

For details about each component refer to the documentation or to the
reference system of the particular component.

1.1.1. Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal

Kaspersky Anti-Virus® Personal (hereinafter referred to as Kaspersky Anti­Virus or the application) is designed to provide anti-virus protection for personal
computers running Windows.

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Kaspersky Anti-Virus performs the following functions:

• Protection against viruses and malicious computer programs – the

application detects and eradicates viruses that attempt to penetrate
computers via removable and permanent storage devices, email and
Internet protocols. When using the application, the following modes can
be used (either jointly or separately):

o Real-time anti-virus protection – performs an anti-virus scan

of all objects being run, opened or saved.

o On-demand scan – performs an anti-virus scan and

disinfection of your entire computer or of selected disks, files, or
folders. You can launch an on-demand scan manually or set up
a regular scheduled scan.

• Recovery from a virus attack – performing a full scan and disinfection

using settings recommended by Kaspersky Lab will allow you to eradicate
any viruses that have infected your files during a virus attack.

• Scanning and disinfecting of incoming/outgoing email traffic – real-

time protection performs an anti-virus scan and disinfection of incoming
email messages before they are downloaded to your Inbox1, and of
outgoing mail. In addition, the application provides on-demand scanning
and disinfection of the email databases of various email clients

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• Protection of the user’s computer against network attacks – analysis

of all data entering the user's computer from the network (either LAN or
internet) to determine whether these data is a part of a known internet
attack. If an internet attack is detected, the attacking computer can be
blocked. Additionally, the program provides for the operation in the stealth
(invisible) mode when the user’s computer receives data from other
computers only when the data exchange with the particular machine has
been initiated by the user.

• Updating of the anti-virus database and application modules – your

computer’s protection is kept current by updating the anti-virus database
with information about new viruses, and with methods for disinfecting
objects infected with these viruses. Updates are downloaded from
Kaspersky Lab’s update servers or copied from a local folder in your
computer.

• Recommendations on application setup and operation – tips from

Kaspersky Lab will guide you while you use Kaspersky Anti-Virus.

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The program checks only email messages received via the POP3 protocol and sent via

the SMTP protocol.

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Kaspersky Anti-Virus® can scan email databases for any email client program, but can

disinfect only Outlook and Outlook Express email databases.

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Installation is quicker and more straightforward because the default
settings are the recommended settings for optimal anti-virus protection.

When infected or possibly infected files are found, if the anti-virus
database has been not updated for a critically long time, or your computer
has not been scanned for a long time, the main window of Kaspersky
Anti-Virus will recommend a course of action and give a supporting
explanation. We have customized our application to achieve optimal
performance based on the extensive expertise of Kaspersky Lab in the
anti-virus protection business, and on feedback from application users.
The recommended anti-virus protection settings are installed as the
default application settings.

• Quarantine – a special secure storage area where possibly infected

objects are placed. You can then disinfect or delete the quarantined
objects, restore them to their initial folders or send them to Kaspersky Lab
for analysis. Quarantined files are stored using a special format and do
not constitute any danger to your computer.

• Backup storage – a special storage area used to store copies of objects

that created prior to disinfection or removal of such objects. Such copies
are created for the cases when it is necessary to restore an original object
if it contains valuable information or in order to restore the infection
situation for analysis purposes.

Reporting – results of all actions performed by Kaspersky Anti-Virus are
documented in reports. A detailed scan report contains statistics of all scanned
objects, settings used for each task and the history of actions performed on each
individual file. Reports are also generated during real-time protection, and after
updating the anti-virus database and application modules.

1.1.2. Kaspersky Anti-Spam Personal

Kaspersky Anti-Spam Personal is designed to protect Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express users from unsolicited e-mail messages (spam).

Firstly, such protection is implemented through checking various attributes of the
messages: sender's and recipient's address, message headers (including the
From and To headers).

Secondly, content filtering method is used that involves the analysis of the
message content (including the Subject header) and of the attached files
includes the use of unique linguistic and heuristic algorithms based on fuzzy
comparison of the text fragments with sample messages and on more
comprehensive analysis of the text, formatting features and other attributes of the

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Plain text, HTML, Microsoft Word and RTF formats analysis is provided.

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messages. E-mail filtering technology used by Kaspersky Anti-Spam Personal
was developed by JSC Ashmanov & Partners.

Attention! Every day new types of spam messages appear. In order to

ensure that you have an up-to-date product, it is necessary to update
the anti-spam database as frequently as possible. Make sure that you
update anti-spam database immediately after you have installed
Kaspersky Anti-Spam Personal on your computer!

The anti-spam database is being continuously improved at the linguistic
laboratory based on the results of everyday monitoring of spam sources.

In order to ensure efficient spam protection, the latest release of such data shall
be downloaded regularly by launching the anti-spam database updating process.

We recommend that you set up the automatic updating of the database
at least once a day.

We hope that your experience of using Kaspersky Anti-Spam Personal will be
most satisfying and that you will appreciate its advantages based on the
following features:

• The use of artificial intelligence methods in the analysis of e-mail
messages content (content filtering).

• Integration of all filtering methods in a single module and ensuring
efficient interaction of these methods.

Easy-to-use centralized graphical interface for managing the filtering process.

1.1.3. Kaspersky Anti-Hacker

Kaspersky Anti-Hacker is a personal firewall that is designed to safeguard a
computer running a Windows operating system. It protects the computer against
unauthorized access to its data and external hacker attacks from the Internet or
an adjacent local network.

Kaspersky Anti-Hacker performs the following functions:

• Monitors the TCP/IP network activity of all applications running on your
machine. If it detects any suspicious actions, the program notifies you and
if required, blocks the suspect application from accessing the network.
This allows you to preserve confidential data on your machine. For
example, if a Trojan tries to transmit any data from your computer,
Kaspersky Anti-Hacker will block this malware from accessing the
Internet.

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• The SmartStealth™ technique makes it difficult to detect your computer
from outside. As a result, hackers will lose the target and all their attempts
to access your computer will be doomed to fail. Besides, this allows for
prevention of the DoS (Denial of Service) attack of all types. At the same
time you will not feel any negative influence of this mode while working on
the Web: the program provides conventional transparency and
accessibility of the data.

• Blocks the most common hacker network attacks by permanently filtering
the incoming and outgoing traffic, and also notifies the user about any
such attacks.

• Monitors for attempts to scan your ports (these attempts are usually
followed by attacks), and prohibits any further communication with the
attacking machine.

• Allows you to review the list of all established connections, open ports,
and active network applications, and if required, lets you terminate
unwanted connections.

• Allows you to secure your machine from hacker attacks without special
configuration of program settings. The program allows simplified
management by choosing one of five security levels: Block all, High,
Medium, Low, Allow all. By default the program starts with the Medium
level, which is a training mode that will automatically configure your
security system depending on your responses to various events.

• Allows flexibility of security system configuration. In particular, you can set
the program to filter network operations into wanted and unwanted, and
you can configure the Intrusion Detection System.

• Allows you to log certain security-related network events to various
special-purpose logs. If required, you can define the detail level of the log
entries.

The program may be used as a separate software product or as an integral
component of various Kaspersky Lab's solutions.

Attention!!! Kaspersky Anti-Hacker does not protect your computer from
viruses and malicious programs that can destroy and/or corrupt your
data. It is advised that you use Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal for this
purpose.

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1.2. Hardware and software system
requirements

For normal operation of Kaspersky Personal Security Suite your computer must
meet the following requirements.

Software requirements:

• One of the following operating systems

o Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition/Professional with Service

Pack 1 or above installed.

o Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 2 or

above installed.

o Microsoft Windows 98 SE /ME.

• Microsoft Outlook 2000/XP/2003.

• Microsoft Outlook Express versions 5.x-6.x.

• Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.5 or above.

• TCP/IP support.

Hardware requirements:

• For Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition/Professional:

o At least Intel Pentium 300 MHz processor.

o 128 MB RAM.

• For Microsoft Windows 98 SE/ME/2000 Professional:

o At least Intel Pentium 200 MHz processor.

o 64 MB RAM.