Review by Joseph Boone

Ideally, I would write a review for an anti-virus program after running rigorous tests to subject it to various malware to see how much it detects. Perhaps you’ll understand when I confess that I haven’t done anything of the sort. What I have done is use Kaspersky Anti-Virus for the past few years and have had no issues with viruses. How much of that is due to the software and how much to my generally being careful about what I download, and from whom? That’s difficult to say, but I’ll lay out what little I can actively see about the program.

As far as keeping me safe, Kaspersky does issue warnings to me if I start to go to a website that they have reason to believe is problematic. I generally take the advice and steer clear of them and haven’t had any regrets on that score. The other major selling point is kind of the opposite side of that coin, namely Kaspersky doesn’t pop up all the time with annoying messages that either ask me to do things or tell me that it’s done something. It simply loads in the background whenever I boot the system and quietly does its job. I’ve had anti-virus software in the past that was a lot more intrusive so this has been a major plus.

In summary, I don’t pretend to be an expert on determining which anti-virus software is the best. But I use my PC for hours every day and have had zero problems since I started using Kaspersky. The program is also very well behaved and neither tortures me with popups nor does it interfere with games or other programs as some security packages do. To the extent I’m able to judge it, there is literally nothing I know of that I wish were different. I’d recommend it to anyone looking for a good no-hassle anti-virus program.