About App Updater
3 October 2023
ID 127466
If you have not updated applications on your computer for a long time, these applications may contain vulnerabilities. Intruders can exploit such vulnerabilities to harm your computer or data.
Updating installed applications improves the security of your computer. Using Kaspersky Small Office Security, you can search for updates for installed applications and download and install the latest updates.
Kaspersky Small Office Security divides application updates into two types:
- Important – updates that fix vulnerabilities of installed applications and improve the security of your computer.
- Recommended – updates that improve the functionality and/or make changes to the installed applications.
Kaspersky Small Office Security regularly searches for updates. When Kaspersky Small Office Security finds a new update for an application installed on your computer, Kaspersky Small Office Security shows a pop-up notification in the notification area. Information about the availability, quantity, and type of available updates is displayed in the Notification Center. You can view, download, and install available updates via the Notification Center.
You can also manually start the search for application updates.
By default, Kaspersky Small Office Security automatically downloads and installs all updates for known applications if they do not require you to accept new end user license agreements. If Kaspersky Small Office Security is installed on a file server, updates for applications are not downloaded automatically.
In Windows 8 and later versions, Kaspersky Small Office Security pauses automatic downloads of application updates when a metered Internet connection is used. Downloading of updates is resumed once the unlimited connection is restored. If you have manually started the update, Kaspersky Small Office Security will download the update regardless of whether or not you are using a limited connection.
You may need administrator privileges on the computer to update certain applications.
Applications that you do not want to update or for which you do not want to install individual updates are placed by Kaspersky Small Office Security into the exclusions list. You can view and edit the list of exclusions.