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IMPORTANT NOTES

To repair Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express mail databases, you should have these programs installed on your computer.

INTRODUCTION

1. Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 5.0 protects personal computers from harmful programs that interfere with the normal operation of software and that damage information stored within computer file systems.

2. Technologies developed by Kaspersky Lab and used in Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 5.0 allow implementation of the following features:

- Real-time antiviral protection of the file system against harmful programs;
- On-demand search and neutralization of harmful programs;
- Comprehensive protection of e-mail;
- Blocking of dangerous scripts coming from the Internet;
- Isolation of suspicious objects in quarantine;
- Maintenance of up-to-date status of antiviral bases of the application.

BASIC CAPABILITIES

1. Antiviral functionality

- Real-time protection of file system objects and on-demand scanning;
- More than 40 (in more than 90 versions) supported archives and installation systems!
- More than 350 (in more than 900 versions) supported utilities for packing executable modules!
- File repair on hard disks and removable media; recovery of NTFS data stream and boot sectors of the disks; recovery of the system memory used by processes and objects loaded when the operating system boots; recovery of embedded OLE objects;
- Scan and repair in ZIP, ARJ, CAB and RAR archives;
- Monitoring of mail traffic sent and received through SMTP/POP3 protocols, regardless of the mail client;
- Detection in,and repair of, Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express mail databases;
- Scanning of VBScript and JavaScript scripts loaded from Internet webpages;

2. Auxiliary functionality

- Isolation of suspicious objects in quarantine;
- Automatic and on-demand update of antiviral bases;
- Resumption of updates' download in the event of a disconnect;
- Correct installation of the application if antiviral software of other manufacturers is detected.

3. User interface

- Easy-to-use intuitive interface with indication of the overall status of system protection and of anti-virus databases;
- Management of objects in quarantine using advanced graphic interface;
- Easy settings for real-time protection with three levels of real-time protection: Maximum Protection, Recommended, and High Speed;
- Quick access to activity logs for infected objects search, anti-virus databases update, and task execution;
- Review of finished tasks reports;
- Support of Unicode extended national code pages;
- Integration with Microsoft Windows Explorer.

4. Performance and resources consumption

- Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 5.0 is almost 3 times faster than Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 4.0.x, following the implementation of proprietary technologies iChecker™ and iStreams™;
- The amount of RAM used is halved due to the use of a new anti-virus engine.

LIMITATIONS AND KNOWN BUGS

- Errors can occur while curing infected Outlook Express mail databases. In order to detect and cure Outlook Express mail databases, close Outlook Express first.
- Errors can occur while simultaneously running Kaspersky Anti-Virus and software utilizing the NuTCRACKER library.
- An error "files are used by other programs" can occur while deinstalling Kaspersky Anti-Virus. To continue deinstallation, press Retry.
- Scanning and curing password protected self-extracted archives is not performed.
- Long file names are cut short in reports.