I have noticed that when I create the rescue disk from my Kaspersky 7.x installation, the virus database consists of about 8000 little files that have to be copied to the ISO image (this is not a big problem) but then need to be copied, every time I boot the rescue CD, from the CD to the RAMdisk. This process is painfully slow (8000 little files take a LOT of time to be copied) and it also occupies a lot fo space on the RAMdisk, leaving very little free space on it.

Is there some way to get rid of all of these little diff files, and load a single big file for the virus signature database onto the rescue CD?

Thanks

hello
no you can't merge the databases into one big file you would need some of kaspersky's most private tools for that. but there shouldn't be 8000 little files, but ~200 files with 50kb each. which version of kaspersk (full build number) did you use?

Sorry, I was wrong. I am using KAV 6.0.138 for windows workstations (the business version) and not KAV 7 home. This happens when I do lots of things together on different computers, I get confused.

So this post is in the wrong forum, and about the wrong version of KAV.

Anyway, I have tried stopping KAV, erasing the directories that contain database files, then restarting KAV and executing a database update.

I was able to go down from 60 MB to 40 MB of data. It seems that the updater temporary folder (located in c:\documents and settings\all users\application data\Kaspersky\avp6\data\updater) went from 40 to 20 MB. I also suspect that this folder is not needed at all, since it seems to me that it contains a copy of the database files (about 21 MB and 400 files) that are installed in c:\documents and settings\all users\application data\Kaspersky\avp6\base.

Moved to "Protection for small and medium businesses" forum