Customer Reviews

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 [OLD VERSION]

5 star:		(53)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(7)
1 star:		(13)

 

 

I run XP and have tried a wide variety of antivirus software. I still like my separate components rather than a security suite. I left Norton because of numerous javascripting errors. I tried Bit Defender 9--not a bad program. Just not as quick and complete as KAV 6. My computer runs better than ever with KAV installed (I also run a third party firewall). Since installing KAV, my firewall hasn't alerted me to a single intrusion attempt. Seems like good news--and I certainly hope it is! I feel pretty safe running KAV. I like what independent reviewers/testing sites have to say about it. And things don't continually complain or mess up. The only "problem" I've come up against is that when running all the proactive defenses, including the registry guard, it came up with a message tagging IE 7, Beta 3, as a possible danger. And, given IE's track record--it might be. ;) I got very friendly and patient help from the Kaspersky Support Forum hyperlinked from the software itself. Other than that, it's really been "install and forget." Things are running great...in fact, my antispyware seems to be having to clean up less, too. I definitely recommend this software.

I downloaded a trial version of this from the companys website. I couldn't be more pleased after "experiencing" the awful Norton Antivirus 2007 which slowed my computer to a crawl. Kaspersky was able to detect spyware and adware on my machine that Norton 2007 had totally missed. It also found a peice of obnoxious malware missed by Norton. And the best part of it is that Kaspersky allows you to extensively customize the settings you need for your particular computer. I found that "low" setting worked great in my situation and no performance hit is noticeable.

Just be sure to uninstall Any other anti-virus program before installing this.

after five years of struggling with norton slowing down my computer, i needed a change.
with my annual norton subscription expiring, i spent about an hour looking at reviews of other products. while i had never heard of Kaspersky, after reading the reviews and specs, i decided i had nothing to lose.
what an improvement!
if your system response is slow because of norton, i would recommend switching to Kaspersky, you will really see the difference.

At last, an anti-virus that's easy to install and does it's job quietly and without annoying messages...for my money, forget the others and go with this one...it's what you want!

Let me begin by saying that although I use my computer daily, I am by no means a "techie" or computer geek. I don't know all of the technical jargon that goes along with being an expert. That's okay though, I use my washing machine everyday but couldn't repair it if the timer went out. With that being said, Kaspersky's advertising line says it all: "Installs easily with a clear interface and automated functions making it the right choice for even the most inexperienced computer users." Well, that's me---the "inexperienced user" part, that is.

In a nutshell, this product works!!!! There are umpteen-gazillion competitors out there (and of course I've not tried them all) that claim to do all sorts of magical things, but Kaspersky actually does what it says it will do. I have several "freeware" programs on my computer---most notably Ad-aware and Spybot--- that "find" all sorts of pesky things and claim to delete them, but these critters keep coming back. I even tried that new "Live One" (or whatever it's called) from Windows, but it totally failed to find and purge that horrific trojan that seems to be infecting practically everyone's computer recently---Winsoft.

Have you too been infected with Winsoft? You know, the constant pop-ups "warning" you that your computer is infected with spyware and doing it under the pretense of being a legitimate Windows message? Well, nothing under the sun could get rid of it until Kaspersky. Now, I can go online without the constant barrage of pop-ups from Winsoft or System Doctor or a host of other nasty varmits.

I noticed where one user experienced a total crash of his PC when trying to install Kaspersky. At first, I thought mine did the same thing too. What it turned out to be was my worthless Windows Live One trying to "protect" my computer from Kaspersky. I don't know enough of the "technicals" to explain this, but when installing Kaspersky it does prompt you to uninstall "incompatible" programs. In my case, the seldom used Trend PCillin program had to be removed before running Kaspersky. Ultimately, I uninstalled the Windows Live One program too and all has been well since!

You may or may not like the audible "ping" sound that occurs whenever Kaspersky detects a problem, but the little "pig squeal" it gives when it deletes a potential threat will have you giggling and squealing with delight!

Hands down, this Russian-made protection software is the best I've ever used. I like to imagine that I have an entire brigade of Don Cossacks hacking and slashing away at all of the nasty trojans trying to invade my PC.

This software is easy to install, easy to implement, easy to get updated virus lists. It doesn't bog down your system like the other two biggies. The warnings are clear. Highly recommend this over the other two on the market!

Kaspersky is full function, easy to use, and does not over burden my desktop. I like the ability to set it for hourly updates which are typically 40-60kb and my computer doesn't even blink when the update happens. I appreciate the full protection and ease of use and it is well worth the money. [...]

Previously running AVG, 5 different versions of Norton, McAfee, and various other anti-virus, KAV 6.0 is pretty good. It catches stuff they didn't, it consumes relatively less resources, is faster on the scan, and better overall performance then anything I've ever tried before in eight years.

However, the software does as warned before, have conflicts. After installation, I couldn't connect to the internet because KAV had a conflict with a sygate firewall. No where in the manual was a warning about software conflicts of any type. I had to restore my computer to a previous restore date to get back my connection, even after exiting sygate. After I found the problem, I uninstalled my firewall, reinstalled KAV and found I had some other problems. IE would exit the second it opened, I couldn't watch steaming video on Firefox, System Restore didn't open, windows media would quit if clicked to 'now playing' and various other software programs had massive problems that I didn't have before installation of KAV. After several days of searching, I found that I had to run several reg edit dll changes to bring things back to normal (I was using AVG as a last resort backup).

I contacted Tech Support (there's no phone number despite their manual saying 24 hour 365 day phone support) via email and they still haven't got back to me, it's been a while.

So the product itself is good, it's just its early effects on my system were beyond appalling and nowhere near business acceptable and tech support simply doesn't exist. If you can figure out the problems yourself, get it, otherwise stay away and this is from a user who encountered the nightmare that was Norton 2006.

I had been a dedicated user of Norton's Anti-Virus for many years, but I was getting increasingly weary of the toll it was taking on my computer's resources. It seemed that whenever Norton decided to kick for whatever reason, I pretty much had to wait until it was done to work on my computer. And no, my computer is not some old slug of a machine.

With this is mind, and after reading some positive reviews, I decided to try Kaspersky's Anti-Virus when my Norton subscription expired. I'm glad I did. There's a night and day difference between two when it comes to all functions. Updating definitions and scanning is much faster and it works out of my way. Whether it is more effective at catching viruses, I can't say. I tend to not do things that are particularly risky in that area, so I can only assume that it is as effective as Norton since I have not been infected with anything.

When my wife's Norton subscription expired, she also decided to try Kaspersky, and she is even more impressed than I with how much faster her computer functions. It seems that Kaspersky has found two new fans in our household.

I started having huge slow downs on two home computers. A system service running on XP (see scvhost.exe in the Task Manager window) was taking 99% of all of the CPU time a while after bootup and I couldn't do anything other than kill the process which caused side affects. I did have Norton anti-virus but it was out of date since I didn't renew it because when I got it I could use it on both of my home PCs but the renewal only allowed me to use it on one PC. So, I couldn't decide what to do for a couple of weeks then, like an idiot I bought Microsoft OneCare (you could use it on three PCs and MS knows everything). It found NO problems, was completely happy, and slowed down my computer to a crawl and kept displaying pop-up messages about my computer being at risk (since it was a day or two since my last update). I had to dump it! Then I got Kaspersky. It immediately found my problem and quarrantined an accellerator application I got from my ISP (that had been running great for two years). No more slow down and the CPU was back to frequent idle. So, Kaspersky worked great. Why four stars? Well, I haven't tried or know about all anti-virus programs, maybe there is still something better. But for now, I'm sold. Lesson: Be sure to try the trial period of OneCare before buying if you are considering that product!