Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 for free download

Publisher's Description

From Kaspersky Lab:

Kaspersky Internet Aegis delivers avant-garde Hybrid Aegis to accumulate you safe from today's complex, ever-evolving threats. Whether you're banking, shopping, or amusing networking online, accept complete aplomb that your annual capacity are secure, you won't blunder assimilate alarming websites, and you'll alone accept safe letters from your friends. You're chargeless to get amusement the Internet to its abounding potential.

What's fresh in this version:

# Fresh : Hybrid Protection, accumulation the ability of the billow and your PC

# New: Fresh convenient interface and Desktop Aegis Gadget

# New: Instant assurance checks on files, applications, and websites

# Improved: Capital antivirus technologies added additional layers of aegis adjoin hackers, spam, character theft, and circuitous Internet threats

# Improved: Best-in-class, two-way firewall to accumulate hackers out

# Improved: Defended online cyberbanking and shopping

The basal line:

The fresh Kaspersky Internet Aegis for 2012 introduces a bifold cloud-and-local aegis arrangement arranged beneath an interface analysis that's both attainable to use and familiar. The suite's scans aren't the fastest, but it actually will assure you.

Kaspersky Internet Security 2012

Review:

Kaspersky Internet Aegis continues to accommodate users with a aerial akin of aegis that includes aegis accoutrement not offered by abounding competitors. The 2012 adaptation won't change the face of claimed computer security, although this accurate amalgamation of aegis options and top-shelf achievement has admiring abundant admirers to accomplish it a acknowledged program, both in and out of the aegis field. A three-user authorization for Kaspersky Internet Aegis 2011 retails for $79.99.

Editors' note: Portions of this analysis are based on CNET's analysis of Kaspersky Internet Aegis 2011.

Installation:

Installing Kaspersky 2012 was not the assignment that aftermost year's was. Kaspersky 2011 was bedeviled by a bug that would arrest the accession action if akin accessory Registry keys from aggressive suites were detected. The 2012 adaptation had a bland and fuss-free install, and although it didn't address a reboot already completed, we begin that registering the affairs wouldn't booty until a arrangement reboot was completed. Basically, you're on the angle for a reboot here. It's annoying, and there's annihilation to be done about it because of the abysmal hooks into your arrangement that aegis suites require.

Interface:

In the aegis apartment business, there's a lot of appropriation and attractive over the accept of the kid sitting abutting to you, so Kaspersky's radically altered fresh interface is a amusement to use. Aboriginal off, it doesn't blot the activity from your eyeballs. It retains the green, white, and gray arrangement from antecedent years, and the blow is new.

Based on a adaptable app-drawer design, it presents your aegis cachet at the top and stashes the four above aegis appearance of scanning, updating, affectionate controls, and admission to accessory accoutrement at the bottom. The app drawer blueprint puts key aegis cachet advice up front, and keeps your accoutrement organized yet calmly attainable below. You can accelerate the appearance alongside to see added options, or bang the arrow at the basal to cull up drawer-style the abounding account of options. Settings and Reports alive in the aerial appropriate corner, and both use analogue again throughout the interface. This creates a solid akin of consistency, and care to address to basal aegis consumers and ability users alike.

A Billow Aegis button at the top of the interface opens a awning that explains Kaspersky's fresh billow technology. Like its competitors that accept already congenital cloud-based detection, you can opt out of anonymously accidental your data. (This doesn't accomplish you any beneath safe.) Kaspersky's opt-out is a bit catchy to get to, though. Hit Settings, the annoyingly unlabeled Avant-garde Settings tab, Feedback, and again uncheck the box to opt out.

Unlike adversary Bitdefender, which allows you to alter the apparatus buttons so that you can accept the ones you use best generally at the ready, Kaspersky's apparatus blueprint is bound down. This is one of the few drawbacks to the fresh design. Another is that in the Settings window, the tabs on the larboard are unlabeled and their icons are not necessarily as accessible to accept as possible. In order, they are Aegis Center, Scan, Update, and Avant-garde Settings.

Labeling aside, the settings themselves were appreciably attainable to cross and comprehend--even the avant-garde ones. Meanwhile, jumping from affection to affection was a alive experience, and we encountered actually no lag back absence amid screens.

Features and support:

The best notable advance in Kaspersky Internet Aegis 2012 is its fresh cloud-based apprehension network. It sends abstracts anonymously to Kaspersky's servers, area a aggregate of automated and chiral processes amount out whether that fresh affairs you've downloaded is safe or not. The point of cloud-based apprehension is to lighten the suite's amount on your system, while accouterment faster real-time defense. As you'll see in the Achievement area of this review, the changes accept fabricated Kaspersky added acceptable at befitting you safe.

The Safe Run head has been changed, too. The updates to Safe Run acquiesce it to be acclimated on the desktop itself, absorption users systemwide. The in-app admission to Safe Run includes a binder that bottlenecks files created during Safe Run, acceptance them to be adored to the unsandboxed desktop but scanning them for threats afore acceptance them to move advisedly about your system. Transitioning amid sandboxed and unsandboxed states is smooth. It's been advised to resemble the Windows absence alien admission tool, so application it feels like a built-in Windows feature.

The File Advisor is a Windows Explorer ambience card advantage for blockage out a file's acceptability after accepting to go through the capital Kaspersky affairs itself. It creates a activity from the Kaspersky Aegis Network, or KSN, to the files on your desktop. We begin it to cull bottomward acceptability abstracts quickly, although its acceleration additionally will depend on your Internet connection. The Safe Run sandbox, which lets you run potentially alarming programs in a walled-off garden, now works with both approved applications and Web sites. A blooming anatomy tells you back it's active.

The Arrangement Watcher was alien aftermost year as adorned name for the refurbished arrangement log. The Roll Back affection has been punched up in 2012, so the apartment can now calmly disengage or acknowledgment accident acquired by any malware that does blooper through, and the Arrangement Monitor affection shows you real-time cartage to and from your computer. Among the added acceptable accessory accoutrement are an Internet Explorer aegis analyzer, a acceptable abstraction if you're ashore on Windows XP and IE8 or earlier. It's awe-inspiring that it doesn't abutment any added browsers. There's additionally a basic keyboard for back you're afraid about keyloggers. It's mostly an beforehand affection that Kaspersky keeps about for aloof rights, because it's awful absurd that you'd accept Kaspersky alive and be adulterated by a keylogger.

The appearance accessible in the desktop apparatus accept been overhauled to added carefully reflect the abounding UI. Bang the centermost of the monitor-style apparatus to accessible Kaspersky's interface. Across the basal are four buttons: Update; a security-action Task Manager; Reports, for digging into what Kaspersky's been doing; and a one-click button for jumping appropriate into Safe Run. It's a well-designed apparatus that puts the best capital Kaspersky accoutrement avant-garde and center. Aegis appearance formed aloof as fast as back activity through the capital program.

If you're accustomed with accepted aegis suites, you apperceive that they all accept some aberration of a "Quick Scan." Kaspersky alone this aftermost year, instead introducing a Vulnerability browse and Critical Areas browse to accompaniment the Abounding Scan. Part of this, we suspect, is because Kaspersky's scans aloof aren't that fast. It does refocus the user's absorption on the attributes of what the browse is attractive for, although seeing as how best bodies apparently appetite their aegis to aloof work, it ability be a trend that's not account bucking. Back a browse is complete, it provides you with a account of recommended accomplishments and advice as to whether the botheration care to be anchored ASAP or whether it's a accessory issue, like a tracking cookie.

Unchanged from aftermost year, online abutment is decent, with the accepted offerings of forums, alive chat, ability abject articles, and blast support. Alive babble isn't as able-bodied as with some competitors, alone accessible from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday. The blast abutment is analogously belted from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Eastern time, Monday through Friday. The tech abutment cardinal is alive adequately abysmal on the Kaspersky site, apparently to abash calls. They can be accomplished at 781-503-1820 or 1-866-525-9094.

Performance:

Kaspersky Internet Aegis 2012 (KIS) shares the aforementioned apprehension agent as its beneath feature-laden sibling, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012 (KAV), so both are discussed here.

Kaspersky 2012 doesn't focus on accelerated scans as abundant as its competitors. For best of the scan's continuance on a real-world computer, it promised to complete in beneath than 3 minutes, back in absoluteness it took an boilerplate of 8 minutes, 10 abnormal to complete over three runs. Meanwhile, the Abounding browse anchored up and completed scanning in 1 hour, 32 minutes--that's about boilerplate for Abounding Scans.

CNET Labs' benchmarks buck out these findings. The in-lab browse time for KIS took 1,320 seconds, faster than aftermost year's 1,750 abnormal and yet still the slowest browse we've apparent this year. KAV took 1,208 seconds, additionally faster than aftermost year's and one of the slower scans this year. Note that CNET Labs has afflicted analysis computer operating systems, from a 64-bit adaptation of Windows 7 to Windows 7 64-bit alive Service Pack 1, so while we can acknowledgment the differences from aftermost year's after-effects to this year's, they're not anon comparable.

Kaspersky's arrangement achievement was accomplished already the computer had broiled up. The boot-time appulse was atrocious, with KIS slowing bottomward cossack by 21.3 abnormal and KAV abacus 24.3 seconds. Shutdown appulse was better, with KIS abacus 12 abnormal and KAV abacus 9.6 seconds. On MS Office, iTunes decoding, media multitasking tests, and Cinebench, the two suites were about average. However, as mentioned beforehand in the review, Kaspersky acquainted ablaze back application it, and it transitioned calmly amid its altered appearance and back jumping to added programs.

*All tests measures in seconds, except for Cinebench. On the Cinebench test, the college cardinal is better.

As far as blackmail apprehension and abatement go, Kaspersky retains aerial marks on both counts. Independent testing bureau AV-Test.org has apparent consistently aerial array for Kaspersky Internet Aegis 2011 during the aboriginal two abode of 2011. On a Windows 7 computer, Kaspersky denticulate 5.5 out of 6 on Protection, 4.5 out of 6 on Repair, and 4 out of 6 on Usability, for an all-embracing account of 14 out of 18, allowance the minimum of 11 for an AV-Test.org certificate.

In the additional quarter, on a Windows XP computer, Kaspersky Internet Aegis 2011 and 2012 did abundant better. The apartment hit 5.5 out of 6 on Aegis and Repair, and 5 out of 6 on Usability, for a absolute of 16 out of 18, one of the best scores. However, it was one point off from the best-rated suite, Bitdefender.

Note that AV-Test.org defines its categories as follows: "The 'Protection' covers changeless and activating malware detection, including real-world zero-day advance testing. In case of 'Repair,' we analysis the arrangement ablution and rootkit abatement in detail. The 'Usability' testing includes the arrangement arrest acquired by the accoutrement and the cardinal of apocryphal positives."

Third-quarter after-effects aren't in yet, but after-effects aggregate by AV-Test.org with CNET announce that the apartment continues to accomplish well. It alveolate a 99.4 percent malware apprehension rate, college than the all-embracing boilerplate amount of 98.5 percent in May 2011 acceptance testing and aloof abaft Bitdefender's 99.53 percent. The apartment was able to abolish 100 percent of alive malware infections, analogous the industry average, and 94.4 percent of rootkit infections. The rootkit infection apprehension and abatement amount far surpassed the akin the industry boilerplate of 44.4 percent. In AV-Test.org's zero-day attacks test, Kaspersky blocked 94.6 percent of the attacks, compared with the boilerplate May 2011 acceptance after-effects of 80.5 percent. The apartment additionally did not accomplish any apocryphal positives.

In short, AV-Test.org begin Kaspersky 2011 and the fresh 2012 to be awful able aegis protection.

The best contempo AV-Comparatives.org Whole Product test, which looks at on-demand scanning, attendant tests, and "real-world" guards including cloud-based protections, puts Kaspersky 2011 in the top six suites tested. The June 2011 analysis begin that it blocked 98.3 percent of attacks and threats befuddled at it, alone abaft F-Secure, Panda, Trend Micro, Bitdefender, and GData. Meanwhile, attractive at Whole Product analysis after-effects cumulatively from January 2011 to June 2011 begin that Kaspersky 2011 came in eighth, blocking 97.7 percent of threats.

A third testing lab, Dennis Technology Labs, begin Kaspersky PURE 2011 acutely defective on the ability front. Dennis Labs placed Kaspersky seventh out of 11 suites tested, with a Absolute Accuracy account of 101.75 out of 150.

It's fair to achieve that according to third-party tests, Kaspersky has been awful able over the accomplished year back two out of the three tests we looked at gave it solid marks. However, because of apathetic browse times, a big appulse on cossack time, and not accepting the accomplished array on the apprehension and blockage tests, it's additionally fair to say that Kaspersky could do better.

Conclusion:

No agnosticism that Kaspersky Internet Aegis 2012 is a solid suite, with some avant-garde approaches to befitting your computer virus-free and your abstracts secure. Hopefully, its fresh billow tech will get it akin college ability scores, and acquiesce its engineers to assignment on authoritative it faster.