Trend Micro Internet Security provides advanced protection and privacy for your digital life. It blocks dangers websites, giving you freedom from viruses and. Pc Tools Internet Security 2012' title='Pc Tools Internet Security 2012' />Kaspersky Internet Security Review Rating. Editors Note 1. We are aware of the allegations of Kaspersky Labs 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 Kasperskys security products as long as their performance continues to merit our endorsement. Sure, antivirus is the necessary minimum security protection for your computers, but upgrading to a full security suite gives you so much more. Firewall, spam filter, parental control, these are typical features that a suite adds beyond antivirus. Kaspersky Internet Security includes all of these, along with other useful security features, and all of its components do their jobs well. Pricing and Licenses. This suite costs 7. Bitdefender. And you can use your licenses to install protection on Windows, mac. OS, or Android devices, also the same as Bitdefender. Yes, Bitdefender supports i. OS, but installing its limited i. OS protection doesnt use up a license. Kaspersky follows a pretty standard pricing scheme, but there are variations. For example, with Mc. Afee Internet Security that same 7. Windows, mac. OS, Android, and i. AVG Internet Security 2016 is a reliable and efficient security program for keeping malware off from your computer. The program is faster and uses less mem. OS devices. If youve seen the new Kaspersky Free, youve had a preview of this suites main window. Both products feature a security status banner across the top, with six icons below Scan, Database Update, Safe Money, Privacy Protection, Parental Control, and Protection for all devices. The difference is, in the free edition all but the first two are unavailable. Clicking the More Tools button at the bottom reveals a collection of additional tools Ill cover those later on. Antivirus Shared Features. Clearly, this suite includes all of the security protection found in Kaspersky Anti Virus they wouldnt take any of it out, after all Read my review of the antivirus for a complete rundown of its features, which Ill summarize here. Lab Test Results Chart. Malware Protection Results Chart. Phishing Protection Results Chart. The independent antivirus testing labs are crazy about Kaspersky. In almost every test, it gets the very highest possible score, even eking out a better score than Bitdefender Internet Security in one test. My aggregate score for Kasperskys antivirus technology, drawn from tests by five labs, is 9. Bitdefender also gets 9. In my hands on malware protection tests, Kaspersky didnt do as well. However, any time theres a discrepancy I give more weight to the labs, especially when the lab results are uniformly excellent, as they are here. Phishing websites dont try to plant malware on your computer, so antivirus scans dont detect their chicanery. These frauds trick their victims into giving away credentials for secure websites. Kaspersky scored extremely well in my antiphishing test, beating long time phishing champ Symantec Norton Security Premium by four percentage points. Hardly any products outperform Norton in this test many cant even beat the phishing protection built into Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. Other Shared Features. Some of this suites features even show up in the new Kaspersky Free. All products in the current Kaspersky product line include an on screen keyboard, so you can enter passwords with no chance of capture by a keylogger. And all of them mark up dangerous links in search results. All of the Kaspersky products also include Kaspersky Secure Connection VPN. However, even in the suite products what you get isnt the same as an actual subscription. Rather, its the equivalent of a free installation, meaning youre limited to 2. MB of VPN protected traffic per day. One feature not shared with Kaspersky Free is System Watcher. This component backs up the many layers of antivirus protection with a behavior based detection system that aims to detect unknown malware and even roll back any mischief it may have accomplished before detection. While it targets all types of malware, not just ransomware, it proved effective at stopping ransomware attacks. When I turned off all other protection layers and released real world ransomware samples, it detected them all as malware and eliminated them. This suite shares several other components with the antivirus. You can create a Rescue Disk to clean out malware even when Windows wont boot. The Privacy Cleaner wipes traces of your web surfing and computer activity, and a Browser Configuration scan checks for insecure settings in Internet Explorer. Kaspersky can scan the system for Windows settings that malware may have tweaked. And the vulnerability scan finds missing security patches and insecure Windows settings. See How We Test Security Software. Firewall and Application Control. The earliest personal firewalls developed a reputation for bombarding the user with incomprehensible queries. Foobar. exe wants to connect to such an IP address using such a portshould I allow it Most users lack the knowledge to answer that question with confidence. 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 dont get to run. Others that arent in the Trusted category can run, but with limited access to sensitive system areas. Its not uncommon for application installers to bundle additional products, items that you didnt request. As part of its job, Application Manager automatically clears checkboxes offering additional software and suppresses application steps that include ads or bundled items. It works something like the Bundle Protection feature in Reason Core Security. You can turn off that feature in Settings, and you can also enable the System Changes Control feature. System Changes Control alerts you when a program installation attempts to make changes to important system areas. I ran a sanity check on this feature by installing 2. PCMag utilities, little known tools that dig deep into Windows. When I tested Emsisoft with these, it identified three as PUAs, or potentially unwanted apps, and Trend Micro Internet Security actually flagged one as malware. Kaspersky correctly left almost all of these programs alone. Install Fireplace Damper Safety Clamp. It did pop up to warn about a password management tool installing a browser plugin, which is reasonable. Of course, a firewall also must protect your system against attack from the internet. To check that feature, I hit the test system with 3. CORE Impact penetration tool. Kaspersky detected and blocked 7. Norton came in second, with 6. Even the missed exploits didnt breach security, since the test system has all security patches, but its good to see that Kaspersky is on the alert for such attacks. Your security protection is worthless if a malicious program or script can turn it off. Kasperskys self defense proved effective when I attacked it using potential malware code techniques. Theres nothing significant exposed in the Registry I couldnt just set Security Enabled to False. My attempts to kill its three core processes ended in Access Denied, as did my attempts to manipulate its essential Windows service. And of course, a malicious program couldnt even try these attacks without getting past every other layer of protection. Trusted Application Mode. 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 application that it cant verify as trusted. To start, it scans all your files and identifies the trusted ones. After its done, it doesnt allow any untrusted programs to run. This mode is especially useful on a computer that doesnt see a lot of new software installations. This modes whitelist based functionality is similar in some ways to that of Voodoo. Soft Voodoo. Shield. The main difference with Voodoo.