

Navigation is acceptable but could be better.įor instance, after navigating away from the home page, the only option is to first return to the home page, then select another section. System resource usage was also minimal when Kaspersky was running idly in the background.Īll and all, it's lightweight antivirus software.įor the most part, the Kaspersky Anti-Virus user interface is clean and modern looking. Even when web-surfing or downloading files, our tests showed Kaspersky Anti-Virus to have minimal impact. When running a full-system scan, Kaspersky only reduced system performance by about 11%. Kaspersky's system resource usage was very low during my tests. The bottom line: Kaspersky Anti-Virus was all but useless in cleaning up exiting threats on our PCs but great at blocking new threats. Given the number of threats we use, this was great to see.Īlso, Kaspersky scored a perfect 100% in blocking dangerous phishing sites, a fantastic performance by any measure. In the end we only got a couple of malware samples through. Even though we tried very hard to circumvent Kaspersky and install all manner of malicious software, Kaspersky was very thorough in blocking or outright deleting the malware. Our testing PCs and the Kaspersky application itself became so buggy and unresponsive that we were repeatedly forced to reinstall Windows just get things operational again.Īs for Kaspersky's real-time protection, that part of the software is downright impressive. Kaspersky was nearly incapable of removing the majority of malware samples we infected our Windows test PCs with. The results, we're sad to report, can only be described as dismal.
