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• Internet Security 2010 offers premium protection from viruses, spyware and all malware threats
• Advanced up-to-the-second protection and threat intelligence
• Built for fast, optimal PC performance
• Comprehensive identity theft and phishing protection
• Powerful anti-spam and two-way firewall
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 9.2 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.1 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.7 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.15 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.6 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.7 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.2 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 246 reviews |
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| Windows Vista / Windows 7 / Windows XP | | Media:
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79 of 89 found the following review helpful:
 Solid Internet Security Suite Works Quite Well With Windows 7 Ultimate 64-BitNov 11, 2009
By Hugo D. Hackenbush
I own a 3-year-old Dell XPS 410 with an Intel Core 2 6700 CPU @ 2.66GHz, equipped with a RAID 0 650 GB dual hard drive, 4 GB DDR2 RAM and an Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB "Direct X 10"-compatible graphics card; for the most part, I have been displeased with the performance of my computer ever since my initial purchase... and this disappointment extended to the performance of my chosen internet security suite, KIS 2007-2010.
After several years of using the miserably sluggish, sporadically buggy Vista Ultimate 32-bit OS, I have recently upgraded my computer to Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit (all I can say is WHAT A DIFFERENCE... for those interested, upgrade ASAP). After a clean install, I reluctantly decided to reinstall KIS 2010 and see how well it would perform with my new OS. I wasn't too impressed with KIS 2010's overall performance when I ran it on Vista Ultimate 32-bit (although it was improved over KIS 2009), but running it on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit is another story altogether.
The Good:
A newly-streamlined interface makes it far more user friendly than previous editions;
There's lots of smart configuration tweaks for experienced users;
It uses a lot less system resources to run than the last few versions;
It works extremely well with Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit (which I have just upgraded to), with no slowdown or start-up hangs;
Firewall, malware and virus protection is among the best of any current security suite;
Viral/malware/spyware/trojan scanning has little impact on the speed of your computer, meaning you can run a scan simultaneously while doing other tasks on your computer with no problems;
The free software upgrades means you only have to continue renewing your subscription, as opposed to shelling out twice as much for annual software upgrades.
However, there are a few cons:
My experience with KIS 2010 on Vista Ultimate 32-bit was erratic, as most of the time it would work well, but on occasion would tremendously slow down my computer's start-up time, sometimes to the point where I would have no choice but to re-boot the computer;
The spam filter needs work;
The interface could still stand to become a bit more user-friendly for novices in the settings section;
There is an issue with KIS 2010 that blocks the "Windows Experience Index" from completing in Windows 7 (UPDATE: a recent patch finally seems to have corrected the issue);
The "safe run" sandbox virtual environment unfortunately only works on 32-Bit computers;
Scanning is fairly slow with large hard drives.
Still, for the several weeks that I have been using KIS 2010 with Windows 7 64-bit, I must say I am quite pleased with the smooth, quick and reliable performance it has exhibited, as none of the issues that marred KIS 2009 and 2010 while using Vista Ultimate 32-bit are occurring with Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.
UPDATE, 5/29/10: It has now been well over seven months since I installed KIS 2010, and it is working better than ever.
Overall, my recommendation is if you are using Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit, I'd give Norton Internet Security 2010 a shot before KIS 2010. However, if you have a comparable (or superior) PC setup to mine and are using Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, Kaspersky 2010 Internet Security Suite does its job excellently and I would strongly encourage those in need to give it a try.
191 of 224 found the following review helpful:
 Bloatware that should be avoidedNov 07, 2009
By Hayford Peirce
I've used just about every security system in the world over the years and a year ago settled on Kaspersky 2009, which is easy to use, runs well, and does everything perfectly.
Then, in September, it came time to renew my annual license. I paid my money, and, instead of just renewing me, Kaspersky sent me their new program, 2010. I installed it with no problem. The interface is more complicated but not *really* hard to figure out. After a while, however, I started noticing that there were various sites that I couldn't get to on the Internet (I use Chrome as my browser). Then I discovered that some programs, such as Eudora and Agent were taking longer and longer and longer to shut down when I clicked the X in the corner. And that almost *all* programs I opened or *all* websites that I went to were *much* slower in starting up than they had been before. I tried getting help for various issues at the online Forum where various people send in their problems and other people, including, I guess, some types hired by Kaspersky, try to help them. I got various answers but not very good ones.
I finally discovered by reading a number of anguished threads in the Forum that *lots* of people were having terrible slow-down problems with Kaspersky 2010, even though 2009 had run smoothly. A few people said that the only way they fixed their problems was to uninstall 2010 completely and to reinstall 2009. Finally, after 2010 suddenly vanished from my screen and disappeared *entirely*, I used "Revo Uninstaller" (a *great, free* program, by the way, that everyone should have) to uninstall 2010 and then, using my CD that I had bought a year earlier, finally managed to reinstall 2009. It was hard, though, and took me several hours, countless reboots, and various clean-ups that hadn't been necessary when I first installed it a year ago. Now my system is once again humming along with 2009 and all the problems that I experienced with 2010 are gone.
Buying 2010 is like buying Microsoft Vista and installing it if you had previously been running XP -- a big mistake, and don't do it! It's nothing but a piece of over-priced bloatware that is full of bugs and should never have been released. Users of Internet Explorer 8, particularly: take warning! According to the Forum threads, it's *really* a problem with that browser!
PS -- For the Teckies: My computer is a Compaq Presario, with XP Home Edition, Service Pack 3, Pentium 4 CPU, 2.80 GHz, 1.00 GB of RAM, running Google Chrome as the *only* browser on the system.
28 of 32 found the following review helpful:
Solid protection, and better than the big playersNov 15, 2009
By J. Beck
"br4v3_s1r_r0b1n"
Count me as a convert. Aside from the fact that both Norton and McAfee are bloated and intrusive, Kaspersky has some really nice features.
One thing that's a big win for me is how the protection coverage works. Buying this package gives you a license to run the software, and virus database updates for a year for 3 PCs. At the end of that year, the updates stop but the protection level you had when it expired continues as long as you like. With the others (esp. Norton and AVG), your protection stops after the license expires, which is of course a total ripoff that you don't find out until you're 'hooked'. Then your protection turns into 'nagware', bugging you every five minutes until you renew. Up until my switch, I always cursed them under my breath then coughed up money to them (bad). In this game, Kaspersky comes off as the good guys.
You get standard virus coverage, along with some extras that should keep you safe against most malicious websites/emails/downloads/environments. Database updates happen automatically, and you can do all the scanning you might need to.
I'm a big fan of the "Vulnerability Scan" feature. It looks at your base Windows configuration and software versions, and suggests updates for software with known exploits, and config changes that make your system safer (like turning off CD/DVD autorun; you don't still have that on, I hope).
Downsides are that it's a little on the slow side. Even the 2010 version is lacking a little in the maturity department, as I've seen it get wedged a few times for no good reason. Still, I installed it on a machine I knew was infected with something fairly bad, and it was able to clean off the system and get it running again (saving a Windows reinstall). That alone made the software worth the price.
16 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 Not for XP systems until major performance flaw fixedNov 17, 2009
By R. Keefe
I've used Kaspersky for a number of years, but what a mistake it was to upgrade to the 2010 version. My PC running XP SP3 slowed down quite a bit, web pages took forever to open, and the disk drive was always being accessed. Upon checking their support forums, I found dozens of threads complaining of these same issues. It seems one major offender is that the new rootkit scan gets stuck at 99% and never completes (you can tell that it's running by the "K" icon flashing in the system tray, and if you right-click on that Kaspersky logo, you will see the root kit scan listed at 99%). From what I can tell, it seems mainly to affect XP users, I'm not sure if Vista users have the same issues.
Kaspersky has been promising a fix for the last two weeks, and I think they may have finally released a patch today (11/16). However, time will tell if this resolves all the performance issues.
For now, I've gone back to the 2009 version, and my computer has gone back to normal performance too.
However, the 2010 version is the only one that works with Windows 7, but the current version of it (KIS 2010 build 9.0.0.736) seems to cause Windows 7 machines to crash, lock-up, and slow to a crawl, from what I see reported in their support forum.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Does the JobDec 19, 2009
By Sandy
"Sombra del Monte"
I first used the trialware version of this software just to see if it would work with my system when a competitor's internet security suite would not launch due to malware that shut it down completely. I run Vista. My major problem with Kaspersky was installation. It does not like other security software to be on the system--on my system, it specifically didn't like McAfee or SUPERantiSpyware. I must say, this initially put me off to Kaspersky. Unfortunately, even using regedit, I couldn't find any McAfee product to remove. I eventually solved my problem with the McAfee entries running the free McAfee Consumer Product Removal tool (MCPR.exe). It was an easy download and then a couple of minutes to run. I uninstalled the other product easily from the uninstall programs menu. After resolving these issues, Kaspersky installed easily. It has a very nice looking interface that I personally don't find hard to use. I did have to do an internet search on how to get the product to shut itself down after its first scan, as that didn't seem intuitive to me. It was actually quite easy to do, also. Everything else makes good sense to me, but then I did own a previous version of the software once upon a time.
I have used the software for a few weeks now, and it seems to be doing a very good job. It did find the multiple offenders the other suite had let in--supposedly the best suite on the market--and got rid of these. Kaspersky will let me run the free, on-demand Malwarebytes program, which I use to supplement Kaspersky. So far, Malwarebytes has not found anything. My first system scan with Kaspersky did take almost two hours to run. However, after that it has scanned very quickly, with Quick Scan taking about a minute. The spam filter on KIS could be better, but my email software and isp are efficient enough that this is of minor concern to me. I do not use the parental controls, since I have no youngsters in the house. So far, I am impressed with the price of the software here on Amazon and with the performance of the product on my computer. I do not notice an impact on browsing, etc. If you run Vista and are looking for an inexpensive internet security suite, you might want to try Kaspersky 2010. I liked it so much, I ended up buying it. Activating the software I bought directly from Amazon was a snap--it took longer to unwrap the boxed version than it did to activate the key.
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