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March 17, 2009

Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 review

Product Code: 8818

Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 is an internet security suite that benefits from quick scanning and good adware blocking. [Updated, March 17 2009.]

In a less than inspirational start to our av-test.org tests, Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 picked up only 95.6 percent of AV-Test’s malware – not an impressive result.

But things improved from there. In heuristic tests with two-week-old signatures Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 scored a decent 52 percent rate, and it warned us about 60 percent of infections based on the malware’s behaviour.

Kaspersky has reportedly rewritten its antivirus engine to boost its scan speed. And in Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 it shows: only Avira and Panda beat it for on-access scans, while it was the second-quickest on-demand scanner.

Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 had a 98.1 percent adware-detection rate, but you may have to tweak the options to get that performance; the defaults aren’t always ideal.

Left at default settings, Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 did nothing when we downloaded a Zango adware screensaver. (Kaspersky told us we’d have to enable checking for ‘other’ adware.)

When you enable parental controls, Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 automatically sets every user account to the ‘child’ filter; changing this isn’t particularly intuitive.

Credit to Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 for using data from Secunia to identify unsafe system settings and missing patches. But its Security Analyzer’s recommendations may leave you scratching your head.

Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 has an antispam feature that integrates with several email programs. There are no backup options, however.

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Wednesday, 30 July 2008

Reviewed by pookie

Star Rating: rating of 4

Duration of ownership: 2 weeks

Strengths:
seems pretty good and does not hog resources

Weaknesses:
none as yet

Overall Evaluation:
re avg - i had the same issue in that kaspersky would not install said avg 8 installed. only way i could get rid of avg 8 after uninstalling it was: 1. Go to Start > Run. 2. Type regedit and click OK. 3. Navigate to this following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ right click and delete AVG key.

Thursday, 28 May 2009

Reviewed by happy_chappie

Star Rating: rating of 5

Duration of ownership: 4 days

Strengths:
have just installed this product and love it. Very user friendly I found. This and Zone Alarm only ones that detect GRC leak test and stop it. Mcafee and Norton failed miserably. This is the one for me.

Weaknesses:
none that I found so far.

Overall Evaluation:
excellent. As a novice myself, i recommend it to anyone.

Sunday, 26 October 2008

Reviewed by vikramshenoy

Star Rating: rating of 5

Duration of ownership: 15 days

Strengths:
its light and scans at an amazing speed. complete solution. firewall very effective. detection levels are excellent.

Weaknesses:
frequently the avp.exe program hogs up one core of my CPU. I'm facing this prob in my intel desktop and amd laptop. got around by disabling self defense and then terminating avp.exe thru task mgr

Overall Evaluation:
the avg issue during installation is because of a hidden registry key by avg. get regcleaner and delete the avg key. it'll install. apart from the freak cpu hogging, this is excellent and effectively replaces the 7 different AV's and scanners i used to protect my PC, and firewall too!

Saturday, 26 July 2008

Reviewed by wilsenda

Star Rating: rating of 4

Duration of ownership: 1 weeks

Strengths:
Stronger protection in almost all areas.

Weaknesses:
I am still struggling to get rid of the last traces of AVG8 before I can download KIS2009. Any ideas, anyone?

Overall Evaluation:
Impossible to say with fairness until I can actually use it.

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