Download Kaspersky Anti-Virus WS 5.0.175

Anonymous: 55140 informed us that Kaspersky has released a new version of its Anti-Virus software for Windows workstations. This time the program has been upgraded to version 5.0.175 and is available for Windows 95/98 and Windows NT. In addition, there is also a Full version available that can be installed on both Windows 9x and Windows NT. Kaspersky Anti-Virus scans a Windows PC for viruses, adware and hacking software. The new 5.0.175 release comes with the following changes:

The following features have been added:

• support for detecting potentially unwanted software using extended anti-virus database: potentially dangerous riskware and hacking software, adware and pornware, programs-jokes;
• support for launching the updating procedure and the anti-virus scan using any user’s rights that allows to perform the following actions automatically or remotely from the administration console: anti-virus scan and disinfection of user’s automatic startup objects, MS Outlook/MS Outlook Express mailboxes , encrypted files and files located on the network drives, updating via a proxy-server that uses NTML authorization;
• a possibility of automatic updating using the administration server;
• a possibility to configure anti-virus scan initiated from MS Windows Explorer and using the Scan objects link;
• a possibility to perform update and anti-virus scan immediately after the application startup using the At the application startup option in the Schedule tab of the task settings;
• a possibility to save user-defined settings after the installation of a new application version;
• displaying the number of records in the anti-virus database in the main application window;

Fixed:

• effect of some settings on the anti-virus protection level, such as numbers SMTP/POP3 ports, enabling iChecker and iStreams technologies and enabling prompting for password upon detection of a password-protected file;
• absense of the full path to composite files stored in the quarantine/backup storage;
• a possibility to replace a “black list” license keys file with an earlier version.