Best Antivirus Protection for Home and Small & Medium Business

The brand new Kaspersky Antivirus 7.0 is our indisputable choice, whether for the standalone antivirus or the complete Internet Security suite. If you have more than 10 computers and no servers to protect the correct product is Kaspersky Work Space Security. For a network including more than 10 machines (up to 150) and either Windows or Linux servers, the ideal solution is Kaspersky Business Space Security. The Business products provide centralized installation and management for IT administrators. You can get both of them from here.

Time and time again we found that this software was able to detect malware that more famous programs had not intercepted.

The new generation of Kaspersky's antivirus uses three protection technologies against new and unknown threats: 1) Hourly automated database updates, 2) Preliminary behavior analysis, 3) On-going behavior analysis.

Its user interface has improved massively over time, and it is easy to customize settings, when necessary. Its updates can be as frequent as every 30 minutes, just leave it on Auto.

To get an immediate total protection for your computer using Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0, follow these steps:

1. Get Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0 from here and follow the instructions contained in the email you receive after purchasing a subscription. Take a note of where you download the program;

2. Uninstall your existing antivirus (two antivirus programs don't like running on the same machine at the same time); probably you will have to reboot your computer;

3. After restart, immediately install Kaspersky by double-clicking the file that you have just downloaded;

4. Follow the instructions, leave everything to their default value and activate the license contained in the email you received;

You would need to be connected to the Internet to make sure to get an immediate update of the database.

Real-time scanning for email, Internet traffic and files will create an impenetrable shield.

Kaspersky Internet Security offers a cutting-edge firewall with an IDS / IPS system, protection from leaks of confidential data, protection from spam and phishing and parental control.

In addition to the unparalleled detection rates, what we like in particular of the Business Solutions are the extreme scalability and the support for all types of endpoints and platforms. In other words, IT administrators simply can't go wrong for any current or future equipment connected to their networks!

Even if you are happy with your current antivirus solution, we would strongly recommend that you run the free online scanner from Kaspersky. You could easily find out whether your current antivirus software missed any malware.

To run the Free Kaspersky Online Scanner click here.

Needless to say, if you find something seriously wrong on your computer, you would be better off uninstalling your old, flawed antivirus and install Kaspersky Antivirus ot Kaspersky Internet Suite straight away.

While it is normal for a computer to become slow and almost grind to a halt while being scanned from an antivirus, a pronounced reduction of performance or extreme "sluggishness" is not acceptable during normal operations.

There are many other products available on the market, which is dominated by big names like Symantec's Norton AntiVirus and McAfee.

Despite the enormous marketing campagns which have made those names familiar to the masses, their products are not necessarily the best around.

There are many technical parameters to benchmark antivirus programs but a few elements are very important: effectiveness, usability, performance and speed.

By effectiveness we mean the ability to detect known and possibly unknown viruses.

Usability refers to how intuitive and easy to operate is the configuration panel of the software.

Performance and speed refer to how many resources the antivirus program require to run and how fast it is to complete a scan of an entire hard disk.

Those are the reasons why Kaspersky Antivirus and Kaspersky Internet Security are head and shoulders above the competition.

Whatever program you use, if you are unsure about whether or not it is safe to eliminate one of the items contained in the list of threats, just quarantine them.

Never forget that all antivirus and antispyware products are subscription based services rather than normal programs. No matter what product you use, it will always be as good as their latest definition update.