kaseya anti-virus

Kaspersky (Kaseya's KAV vendor) does well in 2012 Comparison

I often read threads how one IT person thinks “X” AV is better, and others swear “Y” is better, but I ran across a non-profit Australian organization called the Institute for Security in Information Technology – AV-Comparatives, who does on-going research and testing into how well different AV products ACTUALLY work. For 2012, I was happy…

Read More

Creating, Editing and Assigning Kaseya KAV profiles

By: Jim Bulger 1.       Creating a profile There are two ways to create a new profile. You can create “New” profiles from scratch or you can “Copy” from an existing profile and edit as needed.  Note: The “Sample Server Profile” and “Sample Workstation Profile”  shown below, are templates and cannot be edited by anyone,  but…

Read More

Keeping Kaseya Anti-Virus (KAV) up-to-date

Kaseya’s Kaspersky Anti-Virus (KAV) will not automatically update/upgrade to the latest version.  While virus definitions are updated automatically, the software itself requires manual updating. Verifying that KAV is up-to-date can be a little confusing.  KAV 1.4 was released in October and replaced KAV 1.3.  The older version is identified as “Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010” (Kaspersky 9)…

Read More

Kaseya releases Kaseya AV 1.2 (KAV)

Kaseya has released the next update to their Kaspersky implementation in their RMM tool. KAV 1.2 bring, among other things, server support.

Read More