Product Description
Essential Internet Threat Protection—Defends against both known and emerging viruses, spyware and malware with streamlined technologies that won’t slow you down. Kaspersky Anti-Virus keeps your digital identity and passwords safe and secure when you’re shopping, banking, or social networking.
Core Protection
- Real-Time Protection against viruses, spyware, trojans, worms, rootkits, botnets and more.
- Small Hourly Signature Updates
- System Watcher proactively detects dangerous activity on your PC
- Vulnerability Detection seeks out compromised programs and recommends patches
- Anti-Phishing protects your digital identity
- Virtual Keyboard provides secure entry of online banking and shopping information
- iChecker/iSwift provide intelligent scanning for maximum performance
- Gamer Mode for an uninterrupted gaming experience
- Free Technical Support (Phone, Live Chat, E-mail, Knowledge Base)
- Works great with Netbooks
- Rescue CD restores your system if maliciously
- attacked
Editor's Review
When you can hire Jackie Chan to advertise your software, there must be something black belt in your product. Such is the case for Kaspersky, who with their newest security software, Antivirus 2011, are building upon some impressive scan and detection results in recent years with new innovative technology.Working from an anonymous user database to which worldwide scans are submitted and any prevalent threat behaviours recorded and flagged, Kaspersky Antivirus 2011 has developed the Urgent Detection Engine as a proactive measure against the latest threats. The knowledge base is huge, and your protection benefits from it. Name a malware type and Kaspersky Antivirus accounts for it - virus, spyware, spam, adware, rootkits - the complex and the basic are both covered.
Like their advertisements, the Antivirus 2011 has had a facelift. The interface is smooth and well laid out, and the program itself is nice and light. It is, though, perhaps too light in terms of features and power for the user in need of a serious, industrial antivirus. In terms of numbers, though, Kaspersky wins most battles, detecting and removing at about 98% on demand according to AV-Tests.
It is with little additions such as Gamer Mode, however, that Kaspersky wins the heart. Keeping the user in mind, this mode keeps your antivirus running whilst stripping its memory use to a minimum and disabling pop-ups and notices, leaving you free to game or watch or listen in peace.
Quite why Kaspersky felt the need to bury the scheduler (the tool by which you set the time and depth of your scan so that, for example, it runs the bulk of scans whilst you sleep) beneath a mess of interface movements we're not sure. But at least they have a scheduler.
For a no-frills, straight-to-the-point antivirus, Kaspersky Antivirus 2010 software has innovated where it counts most.
Kaspersky Antivirus 2011: What We Liked
Software.com Labs had an interesting time with Kaspersky Antivirus 2011, and picked out a number of features that worked particularly well and put Kaspersky amongst the leaders.
Detection and Removal Engine - The behavior-based antiviral engine is in line with the latest developments in the antivirus market. Rather than just rely on the standard update, the system recognizes malicious behavior and acts in real-time, proactively.
Security Options - including the Urgent Detection System, the Vulnerability Scan and online protection for email, passwords and the like are very strong.
Light on system resources.
Easy Install.
Kaspersky Antivirus 2011: What We Didn't Like
The Kaspersky Antivirus 2011 program, due in part to its large database, will slow your boot up and shut down speeds. You can be assured, though, that it would slow down more if it got a virus instead.
Kaspersky products cause a bit of a riot if installed with other antivirus products already on your PC.
Some nagging interface problems.
Lacking some key features of the Internet Security package- firewall in particular.
About Kaspersky
Kaspersky have been working on PC security since 1997, and have won awards in previous years for their detection efficiency, including top gongs from PC World and PC Pro in 2006 and 2007.
Kaspersky is headquartered in Moscow, Russia.
*reviewed by software.com