Review by Wildness

I was first introduced to Kaspersky Anti-Virus when I converted to Mac OS X over three years ago and installed Parallels Desktop, which cam with a year of Kaspersky that it installed automatically. Until then, I had not been too familiar with the application, but was blown away with its performance. I soon replaced McAfee and Trend Micro on all my work PCs with Kaspersky and have been very happy ever since. Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011 has continued this performance.

Why do I think it is the best anti-virus software? Well, I judge mostly on performance. I must be honest and say that I have never had a virus or worm, etc. on any of my computers; so, I cannot talk much to how well this or any other anti-virus catches incoming threats. Other than flagging the occasional virus in an email attachment, I have no experience with dealing with serious threats.

So performance… In the olden days, there was Norton; and, Norton was good - briefly. Then it became a resource hog and seemed to want to take over the computer and its processing power. Luckily, better and faster and less intrusive options like McAfee and Trend Micro came along; but, even these started to become a little burdensome after a while. Then, enter Kaspersky. Kaspersky runs quietly in the background, doesn’t hog the processor, and doesn’t try to take over my computer. The other aspect I rate under performance is updating… Kaspersky updates almost daily, and does it well in the background without taxing the computer. That was an issue that came along with Trend Micro - both its initial scan and updating upon booting up the computer, it held up Windows from fully loading until it was done… often up to five minutes!nnKaspersky is the only anti-virus I use on all my computers at home and at the office.