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2 out of 12 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 5.0.383
Pros: found it to be easy to use. set-up was quick and easy with no problems, not a resource hog like most. excellent warning system of potential intruders. have had no overall problems.
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2 out of 5 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 5.0.383
Pros: I got the trial of this program, and when that ran out I bought it. This is the first and only antivirus program I have ever bought after trying (which is saying something :P). Here are some features that I like and I bet you will too if you try it!
1.) Live protection - In my experience and opinion, live protection is really more important than actual virus scans. When you get something bad on your computer, kaspersky will IMMEDIATELY prompt you to delete it, don't do anything to it, or even sometimes just keep it out! With this kind of live protection, it will be rare that you get viruses.
2.) Updates - Updates are obviously crucial to having a good antivirus program. Most people don't like to spend an hour tediously getting updates and then restarting their computer for them to work (see norton :P). With Kaspersky, you just click a little blue link looking thing that says "Update Now" and everything is done for you in seconds. So far I haven't had to restart at all.
3.) Scanning - I'll admit, scanning with kaspersky can sometimes take awhile, but it's worth it. If anything happens to get past live protection, I can almost 100% guarantee you a thorough scan will catch it and automatically delete or quarantine it. You can also choose to just scan certain files, or folders instead of scanning entire drives (which is how it should be).
4.) Size - According to my "add or remove programs", kaspersky A.V. takes up only 10.56 mb on your hard drive. That's a fraction of what some (see norton :P) takes up.
5.) Good programmers? Me thinks so. Kris Kaspersky himself wrote a book called Hacker Disassembling Uncovered. I have a feeling you should trust him :)
6.) Easy to use - infact.. the easiest. No complicated interfaces. Just click a few clearly labeled buttons, and everything is done for you.
excellent excellent product kaspersky.
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5 out of 9 people found this review helpful
1 stars
Version: Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 5.0.383
Pros: Nothing
Cons: Its russian and it crashed my pc during a full system scan, rebooted, gave it a second chance and it did it again! Just dont bother. Go for NOD32.
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6 out of 7 people found this review helpful
1 stars
Version: Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 5.0.383
Pros: Nothing.
Cons: Of my many complaints, the primary one is that Kaspersky invades your system by writing data (under the header of KAVICHS) onto every single file on every partition you have. And if you are unhappy with Kaspersky as I was and decide to uninstall it, the information stays embedded in all of your files and is not deleted. Kaspersky quietly provides a tool that is supposed to remove this data, but it is a time-comsuming and irratating process if you have as many partitions and drives as I have. Kaspersky claims that the tags they add are informational only, however, I think the function of an antivirus program should be to prevent files being altered, not altering them itself.
Beyond that, I found Kaspersky buggy and unstable. On a fresh installation of Windows XP with only Sygate Personal Firewall on the system, Kaspersky crashed after the mandatory reboot both times I tried installing it, also breaking my broadband connection. The third time I removed Sygate and the program worked, although it was quite annoying how it hijacked control of my system by first updating itself and then scanning for minutes on end before it permitted any action of my part.
Kaspersky acts more like a virus than an antivirus program. I simply would not recommend it at all.
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4 out of 9 people found this review helpful
1 stars
Version: Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 5.0.383
"Worthless,...use Bitdefender if you want the best AV/firewall"
Pros: none
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