Kaspersky Small Office Security provides the following new features:
Kaspersky Small Office Security includes the following new components for personal computers:
Private Browsing
Application Manager
Software Updater
Kaspersky Small Office Security includes the following new components for file servers:
Web Anti-Virus (disabled by default)
Mail Anti-Virus (disabled by default)
The application now switches to limited functionality mode when the license expires.
Protection against unauthorized recording of the audio stream from built-in and external microphones has been added.
Support for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4 Standard has been added.
License expiration notifications consistent with the Microsoft standard have been added.
Partial support of Yandex.Browser and the Microsoft Edge browser has been added.
Support of the HTTP/2 protocol has been added.
Network activity of applications can now be controlled before Kaspersky Small Office Security has started.
Functioning of the System Watcher component has been improved: protection against cryptors has been implemented. If a cryptor attempts to encrypt a file, Kaspersky Small Office Security automatically creates a backup copy of this file before it is encrypted by a malicious cryptor. Backup copies are stored in the system folder for temporary files. If a cryptor has encrypted a file, Kaspersky Small Office Security automatically restores it from the backup copy.
It is now possible to create Firewall rules in notification windows.
Interaction of the application with supported browsers has been improved: now a single extension is used instead of several separate plug-ins.
An option to download Kaspersky Password Manager from the window of Kaspersky Small Office Security has been added.
Wi-Fi network connection notifications have been improved. Wi-Fi network categorization issues have been fixed.
Safe Money functionality has been improved.
Events involving the weakening of protection during operation of Protected Browser are recorded in the event log.
The application now includes the functionality that checks the trusted secure connection to Kaspersky Lab services and websites of online banking and e-money systems by verifying the certificates of the relevant web resources.
An option to send feedback has been added.
Mail Anti-Virus has been improved. The default level of heuristic analysis has been increased to medium.
Anti-Banner has been improved. Lists of websites on which banners are not blocked have been added. Component operation statistics have been improved. It is now possible to manage Anti-Banner via the Kaspersky Protection extension.
Quick access to the main tasks (such as a scan task or update task) from the taskbar notification area in operating systems that support quick access lists has been added.
The progress of tasks performed by Kaspersky Small Office Security is now displayed as a progress indicator in the taskbar notification area.
The On-Screen Keyboard icon has been improved. The icon no longer prevents data input in the entry fields.
Application performance has been improved and computer resource consumption has been optimized.