I have used Kaspersky, but I would favor BitDefender or Avira now.
Great, unbiased testing agailable here:
I used Kaspersky for years, until MS got their act together. Kaspersky is fine.
Sometimes trying to save a few dollars creates problems.
It was in the news that a lot of agencies that used K, stopped using it, because of concerns.
UK spymasters raise suspicions over Kaspersky software’s Russia links
https://www.ft.com/content/37b7b91c-c79e-11e7-ab18-7a9fb7d6163e
I would recommend Norton.
I don’t know about that software, but definitely do not use kaepernick software.
Its very good. But it has fallen out of favor because it “sees” FBI, NSA, etc as an attack or a risk. The US Govt wants them to turn a blind eye to them and allow them to penetrate your machine at will.
Even given all the fear mongering regarding Kaspersky, I haven’t yet heard about them actually taking advantage of the backdoors that may or may not exist in their product. But I have heard a lot of good things regarding the quality of their product.;
actually it depends on if you want all of your info available to the Russians. understand every file on your system will be transmitted to the fsb. Not up for debate.
I’ve used Kaspersky for years, it’s excellent.
Israel hacked Kaspersky Lab, tipped off US about Russian hackers, report says
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/10/11/israel-hacked-kaspersky-lab-tipped-off-us-about-russian-hackers-report-says.html
Kaspersky is technically very good at protecting computers from malware. It regularly scores fairly high in the percentage of recent threats it provides protection from. It also has a fairly minimal impact on performance compared to many alternatives.
The downside is that the company that produces Kaspersky has close ties to the Russian government.
Because of what security software does, it inherently monitors all the activity on your computer and has access to just about all your information. It’s safe to assume that any security product has the ability to spy on everything you do, or brick your machine, if the people behind it want to badly enough.
A U.S-based company is probably only going to use that capability for something like a very serious crime or national security situation. The question is what situation Kaspersky might use their backdoor capabilities?
If you are using your computer for personal use only, I would be fine with using Kaspersky. They’re not going to destroy their business model to spy on what web sites you are surfing or drain your personal bank accounts.
If you are using the computer for professional activity and handle information that is at all sensitive (either industrial or government information), I would choose something other than Kaspersky.
“I came home tonight to find an answering machine message from a friend...”
Wait.... I just snapped. This is a gag, right? Nobody has answering machines anymore.... do they?
It is Russian, might as well just say Welcome to their snooping. No one in US should use their software.
No. As antivirus it is good, but it lets the Russian gov into your computer.
I’ve been using Kaspersky for almost 2 years now, I’ve had many others over the years Kaspersky has been by far the best, set it and forget it, with all the others I had to also run Spybot Search and destroy and Malwarybytes, both were time consuming; to pick up what the other paid virus software missed. I always ran them after a scan, after a year with Kaspersky I realized I didn’t need them anymore as they never found anything persky missed.
It is quiet fast and worry free, get it you’ll be glad you did, when I got it I paid $90.00 dollars for three years on five devices, that was on special offer I think; it may be more now, I will absolutely renew when time is up and it will be the only one I ever renewed.
Kapersky posted their source code online for all to see so no worries, it is perfectly safe.