Review by Greg J

Although Kaspersky products receive excellent ratings from the professional reviewers we have been less than satisified with the product. Protection wise the product deserves its ratings - no problems there. We installed on 3 laptops: a Dell i5 8 Gb, a Lenovo A8 8 Gb, both with Windows 10 and an older Dell Pentium 4 Gb with Windows Vista. Download and installation went ok on all 3 laptops with the older Dell taking longer as could be expected. Anti-Virus scans run quickly and smoothly on all 3. KIS does not require extraordinary system memory.

Now comes the reasons we uninstalled on all 3.

Safe Money is one of the more aggravating pieces of software I have ever encountered. It will open another browser to connect to your bank, store or just about anything else you might want to go to even if you are just going to browse merchandise or seeking information. You have some choices here; to always use it or decide whether to use or never to use, none of which seem to be universally observed by KIS. It slowed down entry into the sites to the point of timing out on all of our laptops. Especially aggravating was the connection to 2 of our banks which use of a Secure ID card to generate a pass code number in addition to log-on ID and passwords.

KIS also slowed down all 3 of our computers especially the Lenovo A8 8 Gb laptop. Sites requiring data entry were especially vulnerable to this slow down. Entering information into Gas Buddy was particularly painfully slow.

Warnings about bad or outdated certificates were a common occurrence - even sometimes on the main Google search pagennThe dashboard is not particularly informational unless you click further into the site. Navigation could be improved as it is not very intuitive.

Bottom Line - Excellent if You Use Only for Its Anti-Virus Capabilities - Not So Good in Other Aspects