This year Kaspersky manage to obtain a great victory against antivirus concurrence. Kaspersky Antivirus 2010 is definitely our winner in our top with ten anti virus software. This is the result of few years of testing and corrections of previous version of this antivirus made by Kaspersky Labs. This antivirus laboratory is managed by Eugene Kaspersky, a Russian engineer which in the past was employee at KGB Security Division. Kaspersky Antivirus 2010 (KAV) is the new generation of this brilliant software made by this Russian company.
Kaspersky 2010 System Requirements & Install process
Kaspersky Antivirus 2010 cannot run on systems with OS previous than Windows XP. Kaspersky can run at 32 and 64 bits operating systems. It supports Windows XP, Vista and the new Windows 7. Kaspersky Labs official review said that this antivirus cannot run under safe mode if you are running Windows XP. This version of Kaspersky runs with limited resources and menus in Windows Vista 64 bits version.
Installation process is simple and intuitive and easy to use. You are asked what components you want to install: Proactive Defense System, Virtual Keyboard, Program Kernel, Email Scanner and antivirus for file component. These elements are installed automatically if you not choose other option. After installation the system will restarts and when the Windows boot up you’ll have installed Kaspersky Antivirus 2010.
Features, Options, Performance, Updates and Detection of KAV 2010
Kaspersky Antivirus 2010 is powerful software and it has a lot of very useful features and tools normally installed by default. These features offer a great protection for almost every computer user. Kaspersky Antivirus has by default installed the file anti-virus module which offers you high protection against web threats. Another good feature is Mail Anti-Virus module which protects you against email viruses. The network is continuously monitored by Web Anti virus module. In this way the user is protected against web threats.
Kaspersky Antivirus 2010 is capable to scan instant messages which are coming from Yahoo Messenger or other chat software. KAV 2010 comes with Anti Phishing module installed but this can be stopped if the user wants.
The most important thing at this version of Kaspersky is proactive defense. This heuristic engine can detect a virus or another threat even that this virus signature is not present in KAV 2010 database. Proactive Defense is capable to identify a threat just if monitoring the comportment of the dangerous file.
Other useful features of Kaspersky 2010 are:
- Virtual Keyboard
- privacy cleaner – which aid you to clean your computer using history.
- rescue disk (which offers you good backup capability)
- Game Mode module – similar to BitDefender Antivirus 2010 competitor.
- Windows Settings Troubleshooting which let the user to see if some settings from Windows environment are setup up correctly.
KAV 2010 updates may be setup at required interval or can be running in manual way. Another feature at Kaspersky 2010 is capable to rollback the virus database if the update was not complete or the new database is corrupted. We recommend you to set up your Kaspersky exemplar to move any detected virus directly to quarantine.
The scanning time is very good and the rate of detection is impressive. The removals of infected files are very rapidly. The only weak point of KAV 2010 is the resources consouming. You need a good computer to run this software in the proper way. If you don’t have a powerful computer we recommend you another impressive antivirus: BitDefender 2010.
Kaspersky Antivirus 2010 is the winner of out top 10 antivirus this year. It’s strong and stable software which can protect any computer user at the correct price.
