Kaspersky Internet Security 7 (1 User Edition) (PC) (CD-ROM)

Needs a fast PC Kaspersky states that you need a minimum of Pentium 300 MHz and 128MB RAM to run this- this is totally unrealistic in my experience. Using this on a 1.8GHz Windows XP machine with 1GB RAM, it is just not enough to run this without causing annoying slowdowns. I'd imagine you would need 2GB of RAM and a faster processor for it to run satisfactorily, even more so if you are using Windows Vista. If you have a fast machine, then this package probably has the best anti-virus out there, but the firewall is not quite as user friendly as Zone Alarm.

Good Product Having used Norton Internet Security for years and whilst it's a very good and thorough internet protection software which has never let me down, it slows your machine down terribly. So coming up for a subscription renewal I thought I'd have a change. Checking out magazines and Amazon reviews pointed me in the direction of Kaspersky Internet Security. However, it's important if you are replacing Norton with any other internet protection to remove all traces of Norton. If you don't it can cause all sorts of conflicts with your new protection software. Add/remove doesn't remove all of Norton, so you need to download the special Norton removal tool from the Symantec website. There are two install options for Kasperky, custom and default. Custom is useful for people with a reasonable knowledge of computers; novices should use the default option which installs the essential stuff. You can change this later if you wish. Kasperksy installs quickly and effortlessly, then you get the updates online to complete your protection. The first thing I noticed was that my computer responds much quicker, everything loading and opening much faster. Especially internet browsing. The Kaspersky interface is simplicity itself, very user friendly. The protection runs in the background, unobtrusively giving you protection against a multitude of horrors, and updates itself with new signatures hourly. Because these updates are hourly they are only small files measured in Kb's rather than Mb's and as such have virtually no slowdown effect on your machine, plus the protection is right bang up to date.

Speeded up computer unbelievably! Had Norton for last two years and computer was getting slower and slower so decided to change. The initial system scan did take a long time but after that loading programmes and web pages was much quicker. (I have windows xp) The initial default settings are set to 'child' and not 'adult' so change if it doesn't let you load some web pages. Took me ages to figure that out! Would highly recommend.

do not use this Had Norton, though it was slow. got a brand new alienware top notch PC with XP pro. Kapersky crashed windows within 2 minutes I had to reinstall windows stick to old slow Norton

Buy Norton, Hello Kapersky For many years I have renewed my subscription of Norton's internet security without even thinking about it. My PC became very sluggish. I couldn't find an explaination of why this was happening. People said that Norton is a culprit for guzzling processor power. I found this to be true. I bought Kapersky on recommendation of a friend and haven't looked back. Norton caused a very slow PC boot up and the system chugged when a virus scan was being performed. Now my PC is running like a brand new machine. Kapersky is a fraction of the cost of Norton and you don't even notice it is there except when it matters. I can't recommend this program enough. I get frustrated now when I see PC stores bundling Norton with their machines now.