Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 3-user
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| Customer ReviewsReviewed on 2008-05-09  
Powerful yet unforgiving to an almost ridiculous level
The good: This is probably the most secure antivirus and firewall I have used but don't take my word for it, do a search for av-comparatives and you'll see it ranked among the highest in its class.
The bad: Its aggressiveness is severely marred by the lack of control it gives you. It "protects" you from so many potentially harmful sites, links, and dangerous executables that you'll probably be unable to do anything on your computer. Let me explain.
Kaspersky's installation is straightforward enough until they get to a point where they ask you if you want default protection settings or a more advanced training mode where you literally train the firewall what to do. Being a relatively computer savvy user, I elected the latter. Bad mistake. I now find myself having to approve almost every executable file I run. You'd think I was running Windows Vista. The worst part is it doesn't provide the information we need to make an informed decision. Even listing the directory the file is in or its properties would help us make a decision but instead we're frequently doing a search for this file in our hard drive "just to be safe" then looking it up online and so on.
Now let's get to web surfing. When it's working, there's only a slight reduction in speed. However, the program frequently brings everything to a screeching halt and stops pages from loading. Why, I don't know and their support isn't helpful either. They have a huge list of "blacklisted" sites that include commercial tracking sites and advertising related sites. This can cause havoc if you're in a shopping portal that redirects you to other websites. Plus, I'd notice Kaspersky blocking a website I was trying to visit but at the same time opening 20-30 different port numbers. Why was this happening? Again, their support was of no help. Many competitors have ways to bypass and go directly to a website link such as holding down the shift key before clicking the link or something to that effect. Not Kaspersky. If they block it, you're out of luck unless you shut down their protection completely. That makes you feel secure.
To top it off, I'm frequently annoyed by the interference it causes with online media players, particularly flash media, but other streaming video is affected. I tried resetting everything to default and disabling some of the more aggressive options like anti-banner and anti-popups but it still blocks stuff I know is safe. That, in a nutshell, is Kaspersky's achilles heel. In its zeal to be the most powerful protection against online threats, it left no control to you, the user. I mentioned this to their support staff and they respond as if the thought never crossed their mind.
Personally, I won't be renewing my subscription. Watching it detect and prompt me for everything was impressive at first. Now it's just annoying and time consuming. |  | Reviewed on 2008-05-09
KIS 6 good, KIS 7 BAD!
Well, I purchased and used KIS 6 for a year and time was ready to renew. I thought, "great, I like KIS 6, let's do it!" Well, I followed all of Kaspersky's instructions on removing KIS 6 and installing 7 (eventually did it three x). Seemed to go well at first but boy did my XP SP2 1.6 GHZ , 1G RAM, 120 GB slowwwwww down my IE and Firefox engines. I contacted K customer support via email ticket with no response (actually got one ONE WEEK later!), so I tried direct email and started an email exchange which meant waiting an hour+ for a return email. I sent a SysInfo packet and he told me to remove a tiny register remnant of Norton which came with my computer with the Norton tool AND that my Spywareblaster and Windows Defender were incompatable with KIS 7 despite no problems for a year with KIS 6. Yeah, right! I did what he said anyway and removed all. No difference. I finally called and waited 20 min but got a nice tech who was helpful and compassionate and he told me to uncheck a filter setting labeled "Kaspersky" in my windows security which helped the IE and firefox speeds but still I had a MUCH slower computer than before and also noticed that I could not watch and of my NETFLIX Instant Watch films (they said my connection was too slow, despite my speed check of my DSL connection saying its fast). So in the end I had to kiss KIS goodbye and adopted AVAST! (top rated on avcomparables and now with antispyware, too!) and reloaded my Defender, Spybot, and Spywareblaster and I am clean and happy! | | Reviewed on 2008-05-09
Very pleased
I've been running the software on mmy laptop since 04/19/08 without any problems. I noticed right away that Windows (XP Home) loads much faster than before when I was using Norton. It seems there was a good amount of space freed up on my hard drive as well when I installed it... | | Reviewed on 2008-05-05
Works great
We've used various versions of Norton products for many years. We tried Zone Alarm a few years ago. Norton has caused problems on both our XP and Vista machines. The most recent was when it would not let us renew our subscription, but kept taking us to the upgrade site. After reading many reviews, we decided to try Kaspersky on the XP and Vista machines. We've had it on for several weeks now and it is working great. The machines boot up faster and there does not seem to be any issues while we are working on the machines. We don't even notice that it is running even with the frequent database updates. Would definitely recommend this product. | | Reviewed on 2008-04-29
didn't meed expectations...
For whatever reason, this software slowed down my computer to a crawl (took about 45 min for the computer to boot), and I have a dual processor... From the other reviews, it should have worked great.
I returned it and got Norton's Internet security (which I had before), and all now works well. Maybe there's something in Norton's software that causes the dramatic slowdown with other similar programs... | |
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