Customer Reviews

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0 [OLD VERSION]

5 star:		(28)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(19)

 

 

After a series of frustrations with Norton Antivirus I resolved to search for a better alternative. I noticed that Kaspersky Antivirus 6.0 was well regarded by the user community, so I decided to make the switch to 7.0 when I purchased my new computer.

Kaspersky has far exceeded my expectations. I experienced no problems whatever with installation--no other antivirus programs had been installed since this was a new computer. Moreover, I found the program to be readily adaptable to my needs as a user. Most important, Kaspersky allowed me to set the level of intrusion that I wanted rather than to simply tolerate too high a level, which is clearly undesirable. I particularly liked the feature that allows you to set the update at a time that is suitable for you. (I chose daily at 7:30 AM rather than hourly.) I also liked the backup disk feature, which is easy to use and essential for system recovery. All of these capabilities are documented in the well-written, 67 page User's Guide. The crucial point to see is that Kaspersky gives you more choice and more control than has usually been the case.

In short, I highly recommend this product to anyone seeking an improved, nicely behaved, and easily customized antivirus program. Kaspersky 7.0 is an outright winner among the alternatives that I am aware of.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0 is a good product. It has all the properties that I am expecting from an AVS.

- It updates itself daily via Internet
- Offers good performance. It will not bog down older computers while protecting your PC like some competitor products do.
- It actually catch many Virus and Trojan programs. I am with Kaspersky since version 5 and feel secure as this AVS has actually intercepted and neutralized many virus and trojans that I was receiving through e-mails or other means that I have never figured out.

However, this is by far a perfect product. In my opinion, its proactive defense is way to much intrusive to be actually useful. When this feature is turned on, it is going to prompt for your approval anytime an installation program wants to write into the registry, a process tries to launch another process (ie: Internet Explorer that launch Outlook when you click on an e-mail link on a web page) or just if an application tries to load a DLL.

This software has received rave reviews elsewhere. What I most like is that the download is fairly small, and you can see (feel) that when you realize that your 'puter didn't slow down at all. Very non-intrusive program, with auto update and scheduled scans whenever you want.

I used to use Norton until it became so bloated and slow. I'm very happy with Kaspersky 7. It does everything I want it to,and nothing I don't. It updates itself every few hours. It's stopped everything bad that I've needed it to. It doesn't slow my system down to a crawl. And it has worked 100% perfectly on my system. I couldn't ask for anything else.

I used to have Norton. As the years went on, Norton turned into second rate anti-virus protection. So I decided to try Kaspersky. I'm very happy with it. I run Windows XP with 1GB of memory on an HP and have had zero issues - once I got it installed properly.

First, you should absolutely positively run the Kaspersky GSI Tool BEFORE you install their software. It will tell you what software you have on your machine that may interfere with Kaspersky. The install instructions in the box do not tell you this. I learned the hard way.

Second, check the Kaspersky support forums at forum.kaspersky.com if you have any questions BEFORE you install the software. There's lots of information in the forums that I found useful - such as interactions between the free Comodo firewall and Kaspersky. However, like all support forums, double check all answers you are provided. (They told me that my printer driver was malware and that I should uninstall it. Luckily, I knew better.)

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I used the Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 product for one year and it worked well - no issues and I'd give it 5 stars. This product maintained a good balance between security and system performance, as well as providing good feedback and control mechanisms one would expect from a mature antivirus program. I have used several antivirus products from Semantic, McAfee, and Trend Micro -- all on this same PC over the past 5 years and the Kaspersky 6.0 AntiVirus product was a clear winner from all of those products.

However, my problems with the Kaspersky Anti-Virus product started when I tried to renew my license after it expired. Following Kaspersky's license renewal/upgrade instructions on their website left me with a more expensive version of their product line (Internet Security) and removed all of my existing licensing information so I could not 'upgrade' and had to purchase a new license instead.

The renewal instructions suggest upgrading to their 7.0 product (for free), but this requires uninstalling the 6.0 version. An uninstall feature found in the 6.0 product was supposed to maintain my purchased license information so I could easily upgrade to the new version. This feature does not work and will erase all license information during the uninstall.

When I proceeded to install the 7.0 AntiVirus product, the link from the renewal website installed a more expensive version of the Internet Security product instead. I verified this explict link downloads the wrong version of the software and I pointed this out to the company.

So now I had a more expensive product on my computer and no proof of purchase from my 6.0 product. The next step Kaspersky recommends in this situation (after searching their website) is to email them to retain your license information. It took them over a week to respond and they asked for the original email receipt they sent when I purchased the product over a year ago. If I had this email receipt I wouldn't need to email them for the my license.

I can draw one of two conclusions from this poor upgrade experience: 1) Kaspersky is an incompetent company, 2) Kaspersky is a dishonest company and tries to force their customers into purchasing a much more expensive product. Either way, I no longer trust this company with protecting my computer.

About me: I'm a software engineer with 15+ years experience and I have created, used, purchased, renewed, installed and uninstalled countless software products.

Great AV it has the best ratings, it works great with my HP system running Win XP, seems to be very light on system resources and gets along with all other apps. Also running Comodo firewall, seems to run together better than Zone alarm did, it said to uninstall Comodo on installation so I did, then I reinstalled it (firewall) after and it has been working just fine.

Kaspersky is very reliable program; I have been using it for a couple of years now and am never going back to Norton. It does its job in the background and you would never even know it is there until pops up and tells you that there was a problem but it has already been solved. The only problem is that the online renew feature is impossible. My recommendation is to just buy it every year from Amazon its actually cheaper that way than buying it direct from Kaspersky. Bottom line great product just don't try to renew you license online.

I am very happy with the performance of this product. Terminology is easily understood.I loaded it in two PC's with XP O.S. and everything loaded smooth. But the problem I have is getting support to answer my email questions. Its been over 2 weeks and still no answer. It seems the trend these days. Make a good product but suck on the support or make a bad product and support is awsome. Gee's.

I was a norton user for a while, but all I kept hearing was how bad it was. So when it came time to renew my virus protection I decided to try this. After downloading the trial I NEVER had MORE problems with my computer! EVERY time I went to run this product my computer froze half way through the application.

And trying to use the internet while this was running NO CHANCE, NO WAY, NO HOW that only made it worse. Once I found the time and a chance where my computer did not freeze up, I removed it from my system.