Updating application databases and modules
In the territory of the USA, the update functionality (including anti-virus signature updates and code base updates) will no longer be available in the application starting 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) September 10, 2024 in compliance with trade restrictions.
Updating the databases and application modules of Kaspersky Endpoint Security ensures up-to-date protection on your device. New viruses, malware, and other types of threats appear worldwide on a daily basis. The application databases contain information about the threats and the ways to neutralize them. To detect threats quickly, you are urged to regularly update the application databases and modules.
Current application license is required for regular database updates. If there is no current license, you will only be able to perform one update.
During the update process, the databases and application modules are downloaded and installed on your device.
You can obtain updates for databases and application modules from Kaspersky update servers, from the Administration Server repository, from local or network directories, and from other update sources.
If Kaspersky Endpoint Security is used in Light Agent mode to protect virtual environments, the directory on the SVM is used as an update source.
During an update, the application modules and databases on your device are compared with the up-to-date version at the update source. If your current databases and application modules differ from their respective up-to-date versions, the missing portions of the updates will be installed on your device.
If the databases are obsolete, the update package may be large, which may cause additional Internet traffic (up to several dozen MB). The amount of the disk space can be up to 3 GB.
Updates are downloaded from Kaspersky update servers or from other FTP, HTTP, or HTTPS servers over standard network protocols. By default, Internet connection settings are determined automatically. If you are using a proxy server, specify the proxy server settings in the general settings of the application.
Regardless of the update source, the update package is downloaded and the database and application module updates are installed on the device using the Update task.
An Update predefined task is created in the application. Using this task, you can perform scheduled and on-demand updates of databases and application modules and configure update settings.
If Kaspersky Endpoint Security is used in Light Agent mode to protect virtual environments, databases on protected virtual machines are updated using a special Update local task, where the directory on the SVM is specified as the update source. The update task starts automatically. You cannot delete this task or change its settings.
Updating databases and application modules using tasks created in Kaspersky Security Center is not supported.
If Kaspersky Endpoint Security is used in standard mode, in Kaspersky Security Center, you can use the Update group task that the Initial Configuration Wizard creates after installing the MMC administration plug-in or the Kaspersky Endpoint Security web administration plug-in.
You can also create update user tasks in the command line and in Kaspersky Security Center.
You can configure the following settings for updating databases and application modules:
- Select the source from which the application will receive updates, depending on the update scenario used.
- Configure the response timeout of a selected update source when attempting to connect to it. If an update source does not respond within the specified time, the application contacts the next update source in the list.
- Select the mode of downloading and installing application modules and application version updates: download and install, download only, or do not download.
- Configure the task run schedule for updates. By default, the application updates the databases once every 60 minutes.
