Kaspersky also sailed through our malware zoo test identifying and blocking widespread known malware that had been discovered within the previous month , stopping percent of attacks. Internet Security is also one of the lightest-impact suites in our roundup, scoring a 1 a mark bested only by the far less effective Webroot SecureAnywhere suite that reflects minimal adverse impact on overall system performance.
Installing Internet Security is easy. Though buttons are large and easy to click, not every setting is a colorful square. The main screen features a big computer icon with several large button icons beneath it. Kaspersky Lab products regularly participate and score highly in tests conducted by independent laboratories. In , the company's products came out on top in independent tests more frequently than any other security software vendor, according to a TOP3 metrics based test.
Kaspersky Internet Security is consistently among the leaders, reliably blocking threats without producing false positives,". Throughout its more than year history Kaspersky Lab has remained an innovator in IT security and provides effective digital security solutions for large enterprises, SMBs and consumers. Kaspersky Lab, with its holding company registered in the United Kingdom, currently operates in almost countries and territories across the globe, providing protection for over million users worldwide.
Learn more at www. Terms of use. Editors' Note: We are aware of the allegations of Kaspersky's inappropriate ties to the Russian government. Until we see some actual proof of these allegations, we will treat them as unproven , and continue to recommend Kaspersky's security products as long as their performance continues to merit our endorsement. Antivirus protection for all your computers is a must, especially with ransomware on the rise, but antivirus isn't all you need. A full-scale security suite offers protection on many other levels.
Kaspersky Internet Security takes an award-winning antivirus and adds firewall, spam filtering, parental control, a VPN, and more. And all these security components do their jobs well. First-time users can often get a significant discount. You can use your licenses to protect Windows, macOS, or Android devices.
The program's spacious main window features a big status banner across the top. If there's a configuration problem it offers a link to set things right; if not, it may still have some recommendations. Below these is a button to bring up a menu of more tools, and a gear icon at bottom left to open Settings. I had trouble finding desired settings a few times, because the Protection page features 15 distinct components, in no order that I could determine. I'd like to see a Search box for settings, like you get with Norton.
This suite overlaps most security features found in Kaspersky Security Cloud Free , though the free product models itself on Kaspersky Security Cloud, not on this suite or on the commercial Kaspersky Anti-Virus. I'll summarize the security features shared with Kaspersky Free; you can read that review for full details. All four of the independent antivirus testing labs I follow include Kaspersky in their regular reports. In the latest set of reports, Kaspersky earned the maximum possible score in every test but one.
Both top the list, with 9. In the past, Kaspersky reserved the System Watcher behavioral detection component for paid products, but with the edition that feature has made it into the free antivirus. I tested this feature and found that it caught all my encrypting ransomware samples even with the regular real-time protection turned off.
Kaspersky didn't fare quite as well in my hands-on malware protection test, scoring 8. However, when my results don't jibe with the labs, I defer to the work of the dozens of dedicated researchers in the labs. Webroot detected percent of these samples and scored 9. In a rare winning position, Windows Defender topped Webroot, earning 9. They scored 9. When I challenged Kaspersky to protect against malware downloads from a hundred recently discovered malware-hosting URLs, it either blocked access to the URL or eliminated the download 89 percent of the time.
Kaspersky's Web Anti-Virus component proved more adept at detecting phishing frauds than at flagging malware-hosting URLs. It managed percent detection in my hands-on antiphishing test, tying with McAee for the top score. Bitdefender wasn't far behind, with 99 percent detection. It's worth noting that the macOS equivalents of these three products scored precisely the same. Bitdefender offers a very similar deal, also powered by AnchorFree.
Other bonus features include an on-screen keyboard to foil keyloggers and a markup system to flag dangerous links in search results. Clicking More Tools brings up pages of additional tools, many of which are not available to users of the free edition. Among the tools that don't require a premium purchase are a file shredder, a rescue disk, and several tools designed to clean and optimize your PC. One big plus to paying for Kaspersky Anti-Virus is that you get full-scale tech support, via phone or live chat.
Users of the free edition must rely on FAQs and forums. Hackers find security holes and security companies patch those holes. If you fail to apply the patches, you can have big trouble. The Vulnerability Scan reports on any missing patches for Windows and popular applications.
It also reports on configuration settings that are bad for security, with an option to fix those automatically. When you navigate to a banking site or other sensitive website, Kaspersky offers to open that site in the Safe Money protected browser. By default, once you've accepted that offer, it always opens that site in the protected browser. Bitdefender's Safepay feature works in much the same way.
A green border around the browser, along with a semi-transparent overlay notice, reminds you that you're in this special, protected mode, in a browser that's isolated from other processes. It even foils screen-scraping spy programs. You can open the notification area icon's menu and choose from a list of sites you've visited with Safe Money, to quickly revisit any of them.
The earliest personal firewalls developed a reputation for bombarding the user with incomprehensible queries. Most users lack the knowledge to answer that question with confidence. Some users always click Allow. Others always click Block, until they break something, at which point they switch to Allow.
Fear not, Kaspersky handles application control itself, without popping up confusing queries. Using data from the Kaspersky Security Network database, the application control system flags each application as Trusted, Low Restricted, High Restricted, or Untrusted.
Untrusted apps simply don't get to run. Others that aren't in the Trusted category can run, but with limited access to sensitive system areas. It's not uncommon for application installers to bundle additional products, items you didn't request. As part of its job, Application Manager automatically clears checkboxes offering additional software and suppresses application steps that include ads or bundled items.
Of course, a firewall also must protect your system against attack from the internet. Kaspersky detected and blocked 44 percent of the exploits. That's precisely the same as Bitdefender's recent score, though Kaspersky identified more of them using their official exploit tracking number. Even the missed exploits didn't breach security, since the test system has all security patches, but it's good to see that Kaspersky is on the alert for such attacks.
The exploit detection scores by Kaspersky and Bitdefender beat most competitors, but Symantec Norton Security Deluxe spotted and blocked 85 percent of the exploits, while G Data and ESET caught 68 and 55 percent respectively. Your security protection is worthless if a malicious program or script can turn it off.
Kaspersky's self-defense proved effective when I attacked it using potential malware code techniques. There's nothing significant exposed in the Registry. I couldn't just set Security Enabled to False. My attempts to kill its two core processes ended in Access Denied, as did my attempts to manipulate its essential Windows service. Of course, a malicious program couldn't even try these attacks without getting past every other layer of protection.
While not precisely part of firewall protection, the Network Monitor component gives tech-savvy users insight into just what applications are using bandwidth.
A live graph charts overall inbound and outbound traffic, and a list of actively connected programs breaks down that usage, showing who's using what. You will probably find that Kaspersky puts all or most of your active applications in the Trusted category. Trusted Applications mode kicks the concept up a notch by denying execution to any process that it can't verify as trusted.
To start, it scans all your files and identifies the trusted ones. After it's done, it doesn't allow any untrusted programs to run. This mode is especially useful on a computer that doesn't see a lot of new software installations.
This mode's whitelist-based functionality is similar in some ways to that of VoodooSoft VoodooShield. The main difference with VoodooShield is it applies its rules only when the computer is at risk, such as when it's connected to the internet.
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