I am renewing my subscription to Kaspersky and ... when the new version was installed ... the addresses included in the white list and in the black list ... WERE CLEARED!!

I thought that the updated version should use the info. and preferences stored in the previous ...

You should consider using the prpeferences of the older versions as the default setup and suggest the necessary changes if the newer version has different or improved options.

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2009 preserves whitelist and blacklist from previous 2009 builds if the "Anti-spam databases" are kept on upgrade