Kaspersky Anti Virus 2011 for MAC, 1 User, 1 Year Subscription (Mac)

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• ASIN: B004EHYL7S
• Release Date: 17 Feb 2011
  

By : Kaspersky Lab
Price : £16.99

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description
Kaspersky Lab’s award-winning high speed antivirus engine provides advanced real-time automated protection, keeping your Mac healthy and guarding your photos, music, files and identity from cybercriminal activity while you work or play. Automatic updates ensure high detection rates and low response times to 30,000 new malware threats daily, keeping you safe and preventing problems from being passed on to friends and colleagues that use Windows, Mac and Linux computers. In addition to low CPU resource consumption, email and Instant Messaging scanning makes Kaspersky Lab’s solution the one to trust for enhanced Macintosh protection.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011 for Mac checks all launched, saved and changed files in real-time, including those downloaded from the Internet and attached to emails. Real-time protection provides an immediate barrier against malware. By using signature-based and in-the-cloud detection technologies, Kaspersky Anti-Virus detects new threats even before information about them has been added to the databases.
In-the-cloud protection New!
To react promptly to new threats, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011 for Mac makes full use of the Kaspersky Security Network, a Kaspersky Lab cloud security service. Each time a user runs an unknown program or opens a website, the product checks the reputation of the application or website against the latest threat information held in the Cloud.
Protection against Mac, PC and Linux malware
Most malware in circulation will not damage Macintosh computers, but this does not mean that it can be ignored. It can cause performance degradation due to resources being consumed as these threats attempt and fail to execute. More importantly, your Macintosh is a useful way for cybercriminals to transfer a wide variety of threats to your friends, colleagues and business partners if they use PC and Linux systems. Unless you have protection against the 30,000 new malware threats identified every day, communicating and swapping files with you becomes potentially dangerous and can damage your personal or business reputation. This is also vital if you use PC emulators on your Mac or share your network with PCs at home, at work or for studying.
Real-time scanning of files, Internet downloads and mail attachments
Kaspersky URL Adviser New!
To prevent computers becoming infected by visiting compromised websites, the Kaspersky URL Advisor informs users about links to suspicious and dangerous websites. The toolbar adds a special indicator close to each link showing if the link leads to a trusted, suspicious or dangerous websites.
Low impact on your Mac’s performance
Kaspersky Lab’s reputation for efficiency and low impact on performance is as true for Mac’s as it is with PCs. No competitive product outperforms Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011 for Mac and most are significantly slower.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011 for Mac delivers award- winning security, while consuming less than 1% of the available processing power
Automatic updates of both software and malware databases make it simple for users to keep up to date with protection against the 35,000 new threats to Mac, Windows and Linux computers that Kaspersky Lab identifies every day.
Self protection
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011 for Mac uses a variety of techniques to ensure that malware cannot neutralize the protection which Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011 for MAC provides you with. Password protection also prevents people or malware from disabling or making changes to your antivirus settings that could leave your Mac more vulnerable to attack.
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Kaspersky Anti Virus 2011 for MAC, 1 User, 1 Year Subscription (Mac)

 

Product Features

• Real-time scanning of files, Internet downloads and mail attachments
• Automatically updated Kaspersky Anti-Virus technologies for improved protection
• In-the-cloud protection against new threats New!
• Prevents you passing non-Mac threats on to friends and colleagues using PCs
• Fast and non-intrusive, with only 1% CPU impact on your Mac’s performance
• Familiar Mac-style appearance and operation
• Kaspersky URL Adviser warns about hazardous websites New!
• Automatic regular and emergency updates for always-on protection
• Special safeguards to prevent Kaspersky Anti-Virus from being compromised.

Customer Reviews

This is not compatible with Mac OS Lion. Caused my machine to drastically crash and all my files had to be erased. All software had to be reinstalled. Be careful!

A worthy security package for the Mac which makes a refreshing change with the whole does a mac need a security suite, personally speaking i'd say yes. This installs easily and performs a scan in good time even with almost the full terabyte of hard drive used up.
The only odd thing is that as much as it states it auto updates Im not convinced but always make sure I press the update button to be sure, when it does find something the only real annoyance I have is the orange warning symbol the software has on display until you get rid of these, you can send all to quarantine and think your done but occasionally the software can't send them there and they have to be manually deleted, although there are options to have the software do this for you I like to see what it has found to be a problem.
The icing on the cake is that they realise many mac users will have vmware or similar set up to use windows on your mac and so they give you a free windows version in the bundle - not sure why exactly as the mac version does log any dodgy products that may be located in your bootcamp or vmware partition.
I did fall out with Kaspersky products for a while and switched allegiance to other security packages for my pc and mac, this however is a good second attempt for the mac and CPU usage during normal machine use is minimal (less that 3% CPU usage). If you have a mac and think your safe just have a think about the number of mac users and how this is growing - it will only be a matter of time before virus attacks on mac are launched successfully...

 

Kaspersky Anti Virus 2011 for MAC, 1 User, 1 Year Subscription (Mac)