Review by Jerry Saperstein

This was my first experience with a Kaspersky product. My experience was not at all unpleasant, but it wasn’t spectacular either. The product installed without a hitch on a computer running Windows 7 64-bit. The interface seems somewhat dated and the program appears to be something of a resource hog, though nothing equals the Norton products of a dew years ago when it comes to awful performance.

How well does Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2014 work? I can’t tell you. The computer I tested it on sits behind two firewalls and I never open attachments from untrusted senders. The Microsoft and BitDefender programs that were on this system for the past three years never reported a threat or quarantined s file.

So I turn to the reports of independent testing labs for their analysis of Kapersky. PC Mag had three independent labs test it in addition to their own tests on malware infested computers. All of them reported substantial success with Kapersky. I am unable to duplicate their test setups, so I have to take their word on it.

My estimation of Kapersky Anti-Virus is based on ease of installation (no problems), ease of use (average - didn’t need to read the instructions) and performance (slow and bulky,like most - but not all - the AV programs I’ve used).

So would I use it based on experience and, perhaps even more importantly, the reports of the independent testing labs? Yes. But overall, I’d reach for BitDefender first.

Jerry