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Category: Software
List Price: $79.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  174 reviews
Sales Rank: 444
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: 3 User
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0.1 x 0.1
MPN: KIS70BOXNC
Model: KIS70BOXNC
UPC: 689076056076
EAN: 0689076056076
ASIN: B000U818N0
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 January 5, 2008
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
Junk! Locked up my computer upon re-start, and took me several hours and many restarts to finally be able to un-install this. I've gone back to another product.
 KIS 7.0: Great for experts - and everyday users January 2, 2008
56 out of 59 found this review helpful
In March 2007 I tried three leading a/v-firewall suites on the same XP system image: Norton Internet Security 2007, ZoneAlarm Internet Security, and Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0.
I chose Kaspersky, have loved it ever since, and recently upgraded (free) to version 7.0 - an even better product.
About my comparative evaluation in March 2007
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I was using NIS 2004 (annually renewed, daily updated, fearful to move to a later version due to strongly negative customer reviews). Yet I could not keep it forever, as it lacked malware and root kit support (which I augmented from other sources). Plus (another motivation for upgrade): I grew weary of yet another month of Symantec's "Critical!" failure alarms that announced "in 4 weeks you will expire" - a tremendously bad design choice because you tend to overlook !!RED!! general alarms for several weeks' time, and you could easily overlook a legitimate security problem if one were to occur. (All that, just for Symantec marketing purposes.)
So I needed a vanilla PC platform, stripped of my previous A/V-firewall suite, to make the testing fair. Uninstalling NIS 2004 was a huge ordeal requiring several days of trial and error. (It truly looked like Symantec deliberately designed this to be so daunting that the faint of heart would give up, and stay with Symantec.) Add/Remove Programs doesn't remove the product nor its services, and while there were two tiers of Symantec tech support uninstall tools, the first is hugely ineffective and actually leaves the Symantec service still installed and running - yet the second tool actually strips out much of the operating system, including required support for Virtual PC, MSXML, and BITS (reportedly the solution is to reapply XP's SP2 plus all subsequent hardware and software patches). Sadly, Symantec corporate's "NoNav" removal tool is unavailable for the NIS product line. Ultimately I followed this published third-party tip: use Add/Remove Programs, reboot, then perform a detailed search of the drive and registry for things named "Symantec" and "Norton" - and delete them by hand. I removed about 70 registry references; fortunately I'm experienced with XP's registry and can recognize when to remove a 'value' versus a 'rule.'
Evaluation experiences:
Norton Internet Security 2007
++ Pro:
* 1. Flashy, fun, highly automated, set and forget it.
* 2. Highly rated by reviewers.
-- Con:
* 1. I had become a master at configuring NIS 2004 firewall exception rules, yet I remained completely stumped how to customize NIS 2007 for websites I trust but which NIS 2007 restricts. (Still don't know if such customization is actually available. It must be.)
* 2. Twice the executable dropped (failed). Symantec said they fixed this error, but only for paying customers, and they wouldn't distribute the fix to trial-download customers. This left me with no possible way to evaluate whether the fix actually worked before buying the product. How dumb. Unacceptable. Dead ended, I moved on.
ZoneAlarm Internet Security
++ Pro:
* 1. Great GUI, nice integration of features, great logging features.
* 2. Highly rated by reviewers.
-- Con:
* 1. Unstable operation. Installed twice on top of the same PC image, it behaved differently each time: sometimes it would leave Windows Firewall enabled, sometimes disabled. Sometimes logging would work, sometimes not. That sort of thing.
* 2. A known corruption in the ZIS database halts event logging, but even when logging worked, log detail was so underreported that I could not gauge product effectiveness.
* 3. Managing and overriding firewall restrictions on trusted websites was ponderous, requiring multiple tiers of screens for each and every website, including the requirement to perform a visual search against all previously customized websites plus all websites visited during this session - which sadly you cannot sort by timestamp nor by the parent portion of the website name, only by prefix - so good luck finding your website in that growing list!
* 4. Days into use of the product, when the learning mode switched as predicted to restricted mode, PC operations became seriously bogged down, and stayed that way.
* 5. The VSMON.exe engine (the main executable of the product) repeatedly failed, stopping the service with a popup memory error alarm. This may or may not drop the firewall protection - I couldn't tell.
* 6. Scan time is slow.
Kaspersky Internet Security
++ Pro:
* 1. This product is geared for geeks and gear-heads who want and expect a lot of initial interaction to teach the firewall the rules for operation. And it really performs and excels in that capacity.
* 2. Yet there is also a "typical" setup mode which I did not try, myself - for less technical users. I can't evaluate it, not having tried this mode.
* 3. Detailed logs - exhaustive, reliable, searchable by field, selectable between major versus all events, exportable to other formats.
* 4. Adding websites to the trusted list is a simple, convenient operation.
* 5. Your custom configuration settngs can then be exported and later imported again.
* 6. Scan status is a piece of art compared to the competition: Kaspersky shows you the scan percentage completed on the task bar icon, and if you open the scan it shows you the start time and the predicted completion time.
* 7. If you're not afraid of understanding firewall and antivirus/antispyware product operation, this product is a dream.
* 8. Flashy, fun, highly automated: configure it, and as it matures with use, you just set and forget it.
* 9. Web support and web forums are the best, most helpful among these three publishers. Plus the Web forum posts aren't filled with frustrated, tear-my-hair-out complaints (a good sign).
* 10. Very stable operation. Not seeing bugs! (That's unique among the three.)
* 11. Highly rated by reviewers.
-- Con:
* 1. Price is highest of the three.
* 2. I'm seeing some sluggishness with some of my web use at times. I'll keep watching this. Generally though, among these three products, Kaspersky runs neck and neck with, or slightly behind, Norton Internet Security. And Kaspersky blows the socks off ZoneAlarm.
Conclusion:
Hands down, I was absolutely thrilled with Kaspersky's operation, low resource utilization, terrific logging, extreme ease of customization, and high regard in the industry in terms of its reportedly high level of effectiveness. By day two I was sold - and I ordered it and took advantage of Amazon's rebate to reduce the cost.
Update:
The above tests pertained to the KIS 6.0 version. Version 7.0 only improves on product features (adding Root Kit scans, a more attractive GUI, and a bit more customization). Highly recommended.
Perfect? No. I experienced one false positive alert that cost me some investigation time; that's not unique to any publisher, in my experience. I just have to disclose it here.
Bottom line: solid, stable, responsive, customizable, and a pleasure to use.
 As simple or as advanced as you want it. January 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I don't know of any negatives. This is good software. Wait, just thought of one... the price is a little too high. As long as the software stays great, the price won't bother me.
Vista users beware. Try it first. There is an incompatibility with some Vista systems that slow down your computer significantly.
 Requires patience December 31, 2007
50 out of 50 found this review helpful
Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 is a generally excellent anti-virus program as can be seen by other reviews. It is not entirely perfect, at least in my experience.
The default setting for the integral firewall is low security. It is perhaps advisable to leave it there. Setting it to medium security places the firewall in "training mode". This renders Kaspersky entirely too obtrusive in my opinion with constant pop-up warnings against even known safe web sites, even those that are visited on a routine basis.
The registry guard feature sounds well in theory but, again, can lead to excessive pop-up warnings. This can make installing new programs and updating existing programs difficult. The feature can be easily turned off however and, to be fair, Kaspersky is not the only security progam to do this.
The almost minute-by-minute pop-ups (I confess I exaggerate slightly here but it sure seems like it sometimes) offer quite technical information regarding arcane processes that most users would find baffling and therefore useless. I have found that, in most cases, acceding to Kaspersky's recommendation to deny the process promptly cancels the task you were trying to accomplish like opening a program for example. For the first few weeks, these warnings should be fairly prevalent as you train Kaspersky to your computer's environment but I find them just as frequent after four month's use.
Less excusably, Kaspersky recently issued an automatic update that tried to quarantine explorer.exe. This is a vital process that Windows needs to run to do pretty much anything. A correction was quickly forthcoming and updates can be rolled back to previous versions if there's a problem but, still, I feel this was a very great blunder for a company of Kaspersky's reputation to make.
In my opinion, Kaspersky provides rigorous security for your computer but, in return, demands your constant attention.
Broke WireLess on Laptop Twice December 31, 2007
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
The first install caused the wireless on my computer to stop functioning. i proceeded to uninstall and reinstall and things appeared fine. A week later, the wireless stopped working with the same symptoms as the first time. I had never had that problem before. Posted the problem on their forum and received no response. I am back to Norton AntiVirus and AVG with whom I have had no problems.
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