Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 5.0

by Kaspersky Lab

Product Features

• Two-tier email protection - Checks and cures both incoming and outgoing mail in real-time, even scanning and cleaning your mailbases
• Cleans and cures compressed files -- detecting in over 700 compressed file formats, disinfecting and curing ZIP, ARJ, CAB and RAR files
• New virus definitions every hour
• Mobile user support protects virus definitions, regardless of how often you connect and disconnect
• Round-the-clock technical support - staff will answer them any time of the day or night

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000B5S9IO
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 20, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,707 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Product Description

Protection Against Viruses, Spyware, Trojans, Worms and Adware

Features

• Exclusive hourly anti-virus database updating for the ultimate protection
• Unique iChecker™ and iStreams™ technology checks files up to three times faster than other popular antivirus 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
• Screening of all attachments (compressed and archived files, embedded OLE objects) and the message body itself
• Automatic quarantining of suspicious objects for manual inspection
• E-mail base scanning for Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, The Bat!, Netscape Messenger, Opera and IncrediMail.
• Easy installation and configuration

Product Description

Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal is simple, powerful protection form online dangers. Your PC is under constant attack by viruses, Trojans, Internet-worms and other malware. Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal monitors all virus entry points leaving you with a clean and safe machine. You only need to choose from three levels of protection and your PC is completely safe.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It works like software should, January 1, 2006

By 

Michael Chiodo (Iowa, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 5.0 (CD-ROM)

I'm a network engineer and have tested a number of antivirus products on corporate systems as well as in the home environment. Quite honestly, Kaspersky stands head and shoulders above the rest. While other brands of antivirus software have become bloated and ineffective, Kaspersky continues to focus on one thing-stopping viruses. Kaspersky has the best detection record of antivirus software in many tests and has received ISCA certification as well as the VB100% awards on all platforms.

Kaspersky also uses fewer system resources than most other products. When the scanner is running there is virtually no impact on the PC's performance. I use it on all of my home PC's, and when the scanner is running I usually don't notice it if I'm working-even on an older system with a slower processor and 128MB of RAM.

I highly recommend Kaspersky anti-virus software. It does what it is suppose to do and it does it very well.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent One of the Top 3, March 27, 2006

By 

Ronald D. Martinez "BookCollector" (San Antonio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 5.0 (CD-ROM)

Kaspersky,Nod32,Bitdefender all be excellent Antivirus products.

Pros: I have tried quite of a few antivirus products. Avast,Avg,Antvir,Norton(bad experiences with that:never again), F-Secure, Panda, Eztrust, Fprot. I current have licenses for Nod32 which I consider to on par with Kaspersky and Bitdefender 8 and 9. If you purchase Kav 5 you are entitled to upgrade free of charge to Kav 6 which is about to be released and can even download it and use key from Kav 5. I use Nod32 on my game machine and Kaspersky 6 on my work machine. Kav 6 seems to use less resoures than 5 and may replace Nod 32 with it. I really like the interface. Many reviews cite this as a drawback stating that it is awkard and not easy to contend with. Nod32 on the otherhand is at least to me somewhat more complicated at least to setup initally.

Kav,Nod32 Both run great even on lower end systems.


Cons: Did not like Kav 5 installing Ads Streams although you have the option not to have them installed when your first install the product by uncheck the Operate according to standard procedures and unchecking appropriate radio bar. Also you may want to uncheck the remaining radio bar if you have Zonealarm installed. Your are given the option to remove the streams when Kav is uinstalled.

Kav 6 : No Ads streams are installed.

Other Thoughts: Downloaded the latest build for Kav 6 which is quite stable now the final should be out very soon and install it. It will automatically remove Kav 5.

I read on Kaspersky Labs forums that that Kav 6 will allow conncurrent use on 2 PCs!!!!!!!!!!

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Product!, October 31, 2005

By 

Karen Solsburry "Karen" (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 5.0 (CD-ROM)

I've used Kaspersky for the past year - quick, reliable updates and extremely user friendly. There are so many anti virus products out there to choose from but I would definitely recommend this one!