Customer Reviews

Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0 [OLD VERSION]

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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.

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.

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.

I am a data communication analyst and have lots of experience and knowledge when it comes to data security and system performance. I have used Norton products and was a loyal user though they add several services and entries to the auto run key in the registry for no good reason thereby negatively impacting system performance especially if you use laptop. Whenever I installed Norton product I had to tweak the registry in order to stop unnessary drain of system resources.I tried Kaspersky Internet Security version 6 after Norton ghost failed to clone my hard drive to the new and faster hard drive. I ended up restoring the saved image to the new drive and was prompted with activation which, of course, failed. After testing the program for about a month and delving into all advanced settings ,I honestly would like to assert that Kespersky labs Internet Security Suite is a super performer and effectivly does its job without adding some interfaces designed to sell you more. The program is just amazing and well worth the money. The bottom line is that its the best out there. Of cousre just like everything else it would require some common sense to use it to its full potential.

Surinder Singh

I took advantage of the competitive upgrade offer and switched from McAfee 9 to Kaspersky 6.

I really like the Kaspersky; the package included an informative booklet, installation was easy, and it immediately located several viruses and Trojans in e-mail attachments that McAfee left unnoticed.

The Anti-Spam portion of the product in my case does produce some false positives and fails to catch many spam e-mails. But this is to be expected, and there is training wizard available to improve spam detection.

There was an earlier review about Kaspersky blocking updates. This is true. What I've done is, I enabled training mode. Now every time some application is trying to go on the Internet I get a popup message, and I can allow the action and save the parameters so I don't get asked about it in the future. I think this is convenient, makes computer more secure, and generally worth the trouble.

Overall I am very impressed with the Kaspersky Internet Security package as a whole, and I plan to buy more copies to install on other computers that I have.

After already being fed up with Nortons incompetence, their 2007 edition was the final blow to their self destruction. I had to dump Norton because of so many problems which would take several pages to describe.
I investigated the various benchmarks and reviews and decided on Kaspersky. I am absolutely impressed by this software. It was written by INTELLIGENT !!! people, & not by some nerds that are to stupid to kick over a bucket of water. The startup is faster. The updates are very fast. Their scanning for viruses will detect if the systems is busy and will pause the scanning until it is less busy. Meaning, that when you are using your machine, YOU, not the Internet Security has the highest priority. The way they handle the spam and popup is again very smartly written. This software was written by truly professionals with a high IQ.
They thought about everything. I am a senior software engineer and I hate stupid software such as Nortons, with totally unnecessary messages which only serves to irritate you and slow you down. Kaspersky, congratulations for a job well done. This is the best on the market !!

This is a simple review and straight forward to the point. Comparing to well known brands like Norton and Macafee, Kasperksy offers great protection for your PC without draining it's resources and drain the juice from your brain trying to setup the program. It was great hassel for me to use Norton security package, the loading time is three times slower and the and configuring the program to suite your needs in such a pain. Macafee wasn't different from norton plus the virus protection suffers from detecting vicious worms. Kaspersky on the other hand is easy to install and use, offers wide variety of protection for your system, and the update keeps your PC well protected from current viruses and worms. I'm using Kaspersky on my Toshiba laptop with 1.7Ghz intel centrino processor and 512MB of ram and it's running smooth and not affecting the performance of the laptop.

One piece of advice, if you buy Kaspersky SECURITY suite DONT'T BUY Kaspersky ANTIVIRUS package, basically the are the same except the security suite offers more internet brwosing and firewall safety solutions.

I had been using Norton Internet Security 2007 for six years, though I had always turned off their anti-spam option in favor of another companies anti-spam software (they went out of business last year though I was still using their product without updates and it was still better than Norton's product). Norton didn't offer a spyware scanner, so I was also using LavaSoft Ad-Aware Plus to scan for spyware. I was happy with my spyware scanner but Norton was starting to get annoying.

First of all, Norton took a long time to load on startup with Windows XP Professional. Second, I noticed that many times on shutdown or restart, the ccApp executable would often need to be manually shut down before XP could be shut down. I would also see errors periodically that turned out to be various executables used by Norton. I wasn't happy with Norton, but I felt locked in. Out of habit, I upgraded every year. I knew from two of my friends that McAfee Internet Security Suite 2007 had the same types of issues. It was slow to load and unload and it was a huge application. I didn't know of any other good options.

I was upgrading to Windows Vista x64 Ultimate and that required yet another Norton upgrade. This time, I decided to be a smart consumer and research before I blindly upgraded Norton for the seventh year in a row. First I asked a few friends and got the same number of recommendations. Then I checked out the reviews on CNET. Not surprisingly, Norton and McAfee rounded out the bottom of their list for the same reasons I found.

CNET gave Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0 rave reviews. I started to research it everywhere else on the Internet, and it kept getting great reviews. It was easy to use (a good selling point for Norton and McAfee) but it didn't do all of the bad things. I wouldn't be saving money (there are cheaper options but they seemed to be more difficult to use) but I'd finally get what I was paying for.

I downloaded the trial version and used it while I waited for my full version from Amazon. When the retail box showed up, I entered the activation code in my trial version and it was instantly the full version. I didn't lose any of my settings and it took under a minute to do.

I now have a firewall that works well and has blocked 32 attacks since I started using it a months ago. I can easily see a report of what the firewall has been doing. Norton's firewall was always a bit cumbersome and I'm happy to see how easy Kaspersky's firewall has been to use in comparison.

I've been using the email anti-spam application that is part of the Kaspersky suite and it has been flawless. I needed to contact Kaspersky Customer Service with a configuration problem, and they handled it quickly. Now it works as I would expect.

I no longer need Lavasoft Ad-Aware because the Kaspersky suite scans for spyware, too. That's a nice bonus!

Another thing I really like is that Kaspersky gets the latest virus signature information and product updates every night. Norton needed a lot of hand-holding every time it wanted to get signatures and updates. It didn't do it automatically from start to finish, and it didn't get updates every night. I'm very happy with this feature.

It loads quickly and I haven't seen a single error. I shut down much faster, too. I'm very happy that I made the switch and left Norton, and Kaspersky was a great way to go. I highly recommend this product!

After installing Norton 360 my computer started running much slower and the fan was constantly on. Even worse, my browser kept crashing and 360 kept denying my use of certain important sites because the "certificate has been revoked." On the recommendation of a friend I decided to replace 360 with Kaspersky.

Stripping out all of the Norton components was a real chore, though with the helpful advice of the folks in the forums on Kaspersky's website I was able to do it. Be warned that it does take some time and downloads (including Norton's removal tool), so block out a few hours for installation if you are not starting with a pristine system. If you don't remove Norton (or whatever protection system you were using), chances are you will get the blue screen of death that a few commenters have cited.

On the recommendation of those in the forum, rather than installing from the CD I received (version 6.0.1.411), I downloaded the most current version of Internet Security from the Kaspersky website (6.0.2.621) and installed that instead, while using the product key I received with the CD. I would highly recommend this. It worked beautifully. My system is faster than it's been in a long while, my fan rarely runs, and I haven't had a single problem since. It even found a virus that Norton had failed to detect. Needless to say, I returned my Norton 360.

Not having a live support person may be frustrating for some, but I found the Kaspersky online forums to be more helpful than the live help I received from Norton. It does help to know your way around the computer (though by no means must you be an expert) and to know how to follow directions. If you fall into that category (or have someone who does and can help with installation), I highly recommend this product.

I bought this product on Amazon.com last week as my ZoneAlarm Internet Security had expired. I installed Kaspersky Internet Security last night. Since this product gives you free upgrade to version 7. I simply downloaded the version 7 from their web site and installed it. Then I used the version 6 product key to activate it. It's easier and I don't need to do it again later.

This product is very impressive. My computer is significantly faster - the startup time is shorter, all applications, and even the browser (internet surfing) runs better. I tried all major brands - Norton, Mcafee, Computer Associate, and Zonealarm. They both slow down my computer and use a lot of memory. I highly recommend to try this product!!

All the installation process was pretty smooth. I didn't experience any blue screen or any other products like some users mention in other reviews. A normal user should be able to handle it well. Before install the product, please remember to:

1. Uninstall all other brands Internet security (or Antivirus).
2. If you already installed Kaspersky Internet Security 6 and would like to upgrade to version 7 soon, you should uninstall version 6 before installing version 7. That's why I suggest people to install version 7 directly and use the version 6 product key.

With these proper steps, you shouldn't have any problem with this product. I am happy with this product. I am sure that you will be pleased with the performance of Kaspersky.

P.S. I suggest you to run a Anti-spam training after install the application. You simply select Anti-Spam. Then click on "Training Wizard" and follow the simple instruction. It will made the anti-spam works better.