April 25, 2009

Few days back we wrote about the Free Antiviruses for Windows 7 and gave a detailed list of antiviruses available for Windows 7. Kaspersky Technical Preview has now improved itself by leaps and bounds for Windows 7 and if you are using Windows 7 then you must give it a try as the latest one have lot of functions in it.

Some of the features of the Technical Preview Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows 7:

1. Improved application performance.
2. Improved anti-virus file protection technology.
3. Means of control over applications’ access to connected external devices.
4. Easy and handy access to any component of the application
5. Means of control over users’ access to web-resources (web site viewing and file downloadings.
6. Proactive defense module was updated: list of events, processed by the component, was extended.
7. IPv6 protocol support.
8. Means of the application remote installation through Kaspersky Administration Kit with the latest version of the application databases.
9. Improved application update procedure: now a computer rarely has to be restarted.
10. Means to specify a new parameter (socket type, with raw-socket support) when creating a rule in the Firewall module.
11. Traffic analysis of Internet-pagers (for ICQ, MSN) that provides security while working with them.
12. Mechanism of exporting / importing several parameters from the command line.
13. Additional information about processes trying to get access to the application is registered in reports.
14. Means to manage parallel search for vulnerabilities when scan task is executed.
15. Improved mechanism of working with application, installed on a remote computer, using Kaspersky Administration Kit (policy structure is redesigned).
16. Means of remote administration of Anti-Spam and Anti-Spy components using Kaspersky Administration Kit.
17. Possibility to use the application configuration file when creating a policy through Kaspersky Administration Kit.
18. Possibility to export / import the exclusion list from Kaspersky Administration Kit policies.
19. Update and scan tasks configuration is now performed in group tasks only and is not available from policies.
20. Uninstall mechanism for applications, which may cause compatibility problems with the product, has been simplified.
21. Possibility to copy objects from local storages (storages on client computers) to administrator’s workspace (for example, in order to send them to the Virus Lab).
22. A new mechanism to manage sheduled scan task when screen saver is on or computer is locked.
23. Data files size restriction (reports, quarantined and backuped files).
24. Client computers with the application installed may be temporary excluded from policies and group tasks scope when working via Kaspersky Administration Kit. This function is available after entering the password.
25. Specific settings are available for mobile users when configuring group update tasks in Kaspersky Administration Kit.

Download the software from here.

Note: This is a beta version so there may be some problems that you might face.



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