Product Description

Internet Security 6.0 is designed to protect your computer from online dangers. It offers unprecedented defense against viruses, spyware, trojans, worms, and adware. If the software encounters a previously undocumented threat, it's sent directly to Kaspersky Labs for immediate analysis - where it is disarmed within 20 minutes and made available during your next update cycle. Automatic quarantining of suspicious objects for manual inspection. E-mail base scanning for Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, The Bat!, Netscape Messager, Opera, and more. Easy installation and configuration.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1853 in Software
• Brand: Kaspersky Lab
• Model: KIS60BOXNC
• Released on: 2006-05-16
• Platforms: Windows 98, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: 8.00" h x 12.00" w x 2.00" l, 3.00 pounds

Features

• Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0 works under Microsoft Windows 98, Me, NT Workstation 4.0 (Service Pack 6a), 2000 Professional (Service Pack 2 or higher), XP Home Edition, XP Professional (Service Pack 1 or higher.
• Exclusive hourly anti-virus database updating for the ultimate protection
• iChecker and iStreams technology checks files up to three times faster than other popular anti-virus products
• Two tiered e-mail protection with proprietary scanning technology to monitor all incoming and outgoing e-mails and mail databases
• Automatic detection over 900 types of compressed and archived files and disinfection of ZIP, ARJ, CAB and RAR format files

Customer Reviews

Solid Suite
I have been a pretty happy, satisfied Trend Micro PC Cillin user for many years now. Not too long ago I downloaded the 2007 version of their suite.
friend of mine did too. We both ran into some fairly wacky problems; Hers evens worse than mine. Decided 2007, though it has potential, wasn't quite ready for prime time yet. May check on it again in a few months.

Kaspersky's antiviral reputation has been very high for years, and so I thought I would drop PC Cillin and take their suite for a spin.

No problems with the installation. Their general layout is more confusing...to me anyway...than PC Cillin's. But default settings would suit most folks. And I finally found my way around. For once it might be eaier for most to go ahead and read their pretty thorough manual before installing though.( I didn;t...lol...but read it later).

I put in a little extra effort and am in the process of placing all their protections on max....just to see if that will cause any problems....maybe back off to their more easy going and recommended ( for most users)security levels. The result is plenty of popups for several days asking whether they should allow certain processes. Usually it is pretty easy to determine how to respond. Actually it has been easy every time so far. For instance when I first moved to check for and download new Spysweeper definitions, I got four popups from kaspersky...each from different aspects of their computer protection. I instructed it to add Spysweeper to the trusted zone in all, and so the next time I downloaded SS updates there was nary a popup.

For the most dedicated user, the program can be customized in pretty minute detail....if you want to spend the time.

The auto setting is definitely the way to go on downloads, and they come pretty frequently and seamlessly.Call for a restart only every now and then.

Their shields have alread stopped 3 attempted attacks from the ol Helkern Slammer worm. Amazed that chesnut is still around.

It's real time HTTP internet activity scans are a large plus. It's email scans do not seem to slow Outlook down much.

Kaspersky has some ingenious methods of detecting on the fly if a file it is scanning has changed or not since the last scan. if not, it leaves it alone. So though initial scans can take a long time, subsequent scans are much faster. Some are incredibly quick.

It puts a moderate footprint on computer action. Nothing too serious. But i wouldn;t call it light. ( I have a 3.2 processor and a couple gigs of ram) Slows you down a bit here and there. The scans are easy to schedule, and run unobobtrusively in the background.

Resident Office Outlook 2003 is my email program of choice, and it already has excellent junk mail handling techniques...so I disabled K's antispam component. Can't speak to its quality.

All I know about it's firewall is that it has performed well in leak tests. Certainly better than average. (my impression was the new PC Cillin 2007 shield is strong too. Much improved over 2006 in that regard).

Tests around the world vary so often, and the security landscape is in such flux, that it isn't easy to know which tester to believe and when to believe tests at all. But Kapersky detection rates on tests generally range from very good to superb. Often enough at the very top.

One feature of PC Cillin I miss is their option to secure certain critical data from any web access....stuff like passwords and credit card numbers. But Kaspersky stands a good chance of blocking those attempts from ever occuring without needing that particular feature.

Unlesss you get very unlucky with system conflicts ( like one person who has posted here), after the teaching mode's popups pass, this should be a solid set it and forget it suite.

I like Kaspersky's honesty in their spyware detection. So many antispyware programs go after simple really harmless tracking cookies just to boost their detection rep. Kaspersky does not do that. They are like a stealth bomber that refuses to attack civilians in that regard.

Somebody said that the only 100% secure computer is an unplugged computer. And that is, in my opinion, true actually. Kaspersky is honest enough to say pretty much exactly the same thing in their manual. But you certainly can tilt the odds heavily in your security's favor by wise browsing, email, download, and file sharing choices....and also by using this suite.

Adios Norton & McAfee
Finally, a security program that is as good or better than Norton and McAfee. Kept Norton for a number of years, but it screwed up my pc. A new pc came with McAfee, which worked ok, but I hated the constant emails from them and the anti-spam would not work with Eudora. Finally got rid of McAfee when they "offered" to renew at $20 more than I could buy it retail.

I've had no problems installing or running Kaspersky. Price was a bit high, but you get what you pay for. I would suggest running a registry cleaner after uninstalling another security program and before installing a new one. CCleaner is a good free one. Even after uninstalling McAfee and then running McAfee's own cleaner, CCleaner still found 15-20 traces of it on my system. And Norton is even worse.

The only Security Suite that Won't hog your resources
In the past few months, I've owned or demoed several security suites (Norton, Mcafee, ZoneAlarm, V-Com) in my quest to find the least obtrusive suite (i.e. smart enough to not constantly harass you with firewall questions everytime you look at the keyboard) that does not completely hog all my PC's resources. Not only is Kaspersky's highly effective, other than spam-blocking (according to the reviews I've read), but it also hogs a lot less of my PC's resources, both in terms of its always-on functions as well as the regularly scheduled scans and updates. I can actually use my PC during scans with little noticeable performance degradation, which is something I cannot say for any of the other suites I've tried, praticularly ZA's and Norton's.