Glossary

Administration Server

A component of Kaspersky Security Center that centrally stores information about all Kaspersky Lab applications that are installed within the corporate network. Administration Server can also be used to manage these applications.

Network Agent

A Kaspersky Security Center component that enables interaction between the Administration Server and Kaspersky Lab applications that are installed on a specific network node (workstation or server).

Anti-virus databases

Databases that contain information about computer security threats known to Kaspersky Lab as of when the anti-virus databases are released. Entries in anti-virus databases allow malicious code to be detected in scanned objects. Anti-virus databases are created by Kaspersky Lab specialists and updated hourly.

Virus

A program that infects other ones, by adding its code to them in order to gain control when infected files are run. This simple definition allows identifying the main action performed by any virus: infection.

Administration Server client (Client computer)

A computer, server, or workstation on which Network Agent and managed Kaspersky Lab applications are running.

Update

A function performed by a Kaspersky Lab application that enables it to keep computer protection up-to-date. During the update, an application downloads updates for its databases and modules from Kaspersky Lab update servers and automatically installs and applies them.

Kaspersky Lab update servers

HTTP servers at Kaspersky Lab from which Kaspersky Lab applications download database and application module updates.

Protection status

Current protection status, which reflects the level of computer security.