Kaspersky Anti Virus 2012 3 PC, 1 year license (PC)

Product Details

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• ASIN: B004YZRFE6
• Release Date: 29 Jun 2011
  

By : Kaspersky Lab
Price : £14.99

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012
Essential Protection

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012 is an effective antivirus product that provides core protection against the latest malware for users who want to stay secure while they explore today's digital world.
Key benefits

• Benefit from the latest Kaspersky Lab technologies
• Check website and file reputations quickly and easily
• Enjoy fast and effective PC performance
• Get smart, frequent updates as soon as they are available
• Only pay for the essential protection you need

1. Benefit from the latest Kaspersky Lab technologies
Keep yourself constantly ahead of the cybercriminals and defend your computer against malware and other types of threats thanks to Kaspersky Lab's relentless expertise and constantly enhanced protection technologies.

2. Check website and file reputations quickly and easily
Links to websites are marked with colour-coded tags that show their danger levels and allow you to decide if you want to open or block an online resource. With a single mouse click, you can check file reputations against authoritative, cloud-based information.

3. Enjoy fast and efficient PC performance
Minimise impact on your computer's performance when browsing the Internet, watching videos and communicating online thanks to the smart PC resource management technologies inside Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012.


4. Get smart, frequent updates as soon as they are available
No need to worry about updating your PC security software: updates install automatically to minimise your network traffic and download time and dramatically reduce your computer's resource consumption.

5. Navigate around the completely redesigned interface quickly and easily
The state-of-the-art new interface shows your computer's protection status at-a-glance and makes managing computer security easy enough for simple.
Minimum system requirements
Operating System
CPU
RAM
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic and Premium/Business/Enterprise/Ultimate (32-bit or 64-bit)
1 GHz
1 GB (x32) or 2 GB (x64)
Microsoft Windows 7 Starter/Home Basic and Premium/Professional/Ultimate (32-bit or 64-bit)
1 GHz
1 GB (x32) or 2 GB (x64)
Microsoft Windows XP Home/Professional SP 2 (32-bit or 64-bit)
800 MHz
512 MB
Some product features might work on 32-bit operating systems only
General requirements

• 480 MB of free space on the hard drive
• CD-ROM drive (for installation via CD)
• Internet connection for product activation
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher

Keep yourself constantly ahead of the cybercriminals and defend your computer against malware and other types of threats thanks to Kaspersky Labâ?TMs relentless expertise and constantly enhanced protection technologies.
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Kaspersky Anti Virus 2012 3 PC, 1 year license (PC)

 

Product Features

• Key Features
• Essential antivirus technologies plus additional layers of defence against hackers, spam, identity theft, and complex Internet threats
• Hybrid Protection, combining the power of the cloud and your PC
• Best-in-class, two-way firewall to keep hackers out
• Rapid, real-time reaction to new threats
• Proactive detection of unknown and emerging malware
• Secure online banking and shopping
• Advanced identity theft and phishing protection
• Secure social networking for you and your children
• Instant safety check on files, applications and websites
• Advanced parental controls to keep your children safe and Responsible
• Fast and efficient with small updates and intelligent scanning
• New user-friendly interface and Desktop Security Gadget

Customer Reviews

First of all anti-virus software always slows your computer down. I don't know why people write reviews commenting out that. What is important is how much does this software slow you computer down in comparison to Norton or Symantec or whatever you are using.
I have found this program superior in all respects of performance; it does not slow you computer down as much as other anti-virus software and, in my opinion, the updates are faster and the protection better than Norton with out a bunch of stuff you don't necessarily need or want.
Pros:
- Lets my system run more smoothly (in comparison to Norton)
- Less intrusive. It just works without telling me everything it does!
- Easy to install and configure (on Windows 7)
- Good level of protection (always hard to gauge but I haven't had any problems, at all)

Keeping yourself and your computer safe is something that has become increasingly important with more and more of our lives taking place on line.
I work in the IT industry and for years have kept myself safe by ensuring that my PC and the applications I use are always as up to date with patches as possible, backed up by anti virus products available free (e.g. Microsoft Security Essentials) and by being very aware of the types of social engineering that is used to get you to open and unwittingly install scareware and malware on your PC. I have never wanted a full "internet security suite". Personally I prefer a lightweight Anti-Virus package backed up with a hardware firewall and by taking sensible precautions with my own behaviour when online. This set up also tends to have the lowest impact on system performance when gaming.
Onto this product:
This is an anti virus product only (despite what it says in the product description). It does not offer an integral firewall, or parental controls etc. This for me though was exactly what I was looking for, but obviously for some people the additional peace of mind of a full internet security suite may be more appropriate.
Installation was simple. The product detected that there was a newer version available online than was supplied on the CD and offered to install that (a 149 mb download) rather than you having to upgrade later. The whole process took less than five minutes.
Once installed the product placed a very large Widget in the Windows side-bar. Fortunately this can be closed and you can control the product from the small icon in the system tray.
I decided to run some start up and shut down performance tests comparing Kaspersky to Microsoft Security Essentials, to a clean system. For reference, my couple of year old PC runs the 64bit version of Windows 7, an E8500 dual core processor, an Nvidia GTX 460, 4 gig ram, and has a SSD Solid State boot disk. Basically it is reasonably powerful but no longer state of the art. The figures below are the average of three boots and three shut downs for each test. The start up is from pressing the power button to being able to open Google. The shut down is from pressing "shut down" to the power switching off.
No Anti Virus: Start up = 49 seconds. Shut down = 6 seconds
Microsoft Security Essentials: Start up = 50 seconds. Shut down = 7 seconds.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus: Start up = 55 seconds. Shut down = 10 seconds.
As you can see there is a small but significant impact in both the start up and shut down times. Not only that, but my PC feels very slightly less responsive all round.
Overall: I am going to give this product an initial rating of three stars and monitor performance during day to day use. If anything good or bad influences my rating over the next few months, I will add it in to this review.

 

Kaspersky Anti Virus 2012 3 PC, 1 year license (PC)