Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 (12.0.0.374)

Kaspersky Internet Security Editor's Review

Keep your entire PC safe with this important security tool.

Keeping your PC free from internet diseases like viruses and Trojans can be a huge undertaking.  With new malware coming out weekly, sometimes even daily, it's hard to keep your computer, and your data, safe.  Protection from key-loggers and other Trojans, viruses and bots... Protection for Adware, spyware, and other junk requires a lot of diligence if not monitored and cleaned every day.

This is why I like tools like Kaspersky Internet Security 2011.  This all in one internet security solution provides you with protection from spam, adware, viruses, Trojans, bots, spyware, and an advanced, two-way firewall, make it one of the best choices you can make for protecting your computer. In order to insure that you always have the latest AV signatures, Kaspersky issues small, hourly updates.  As long as you're online, you'll never be without the latest, greatest protection.

The application also comes with a number of advanced features.  Safe Desktop is perhaps one of the best features I've seen in an internet suite.  If a questionable file, email or web link is received, Safe Desktop allows you to take a look a questionable content without fear of becoming infected.  It isolates potential threats allowing you to look without getting bitten.

The application suite is proactive.  System Watcher keeps your PC free of bugs by monitoring your computer for virus like activity and then alerting you to the questionable behavior.  iChecker and iSwift also provide intelligent scanning for maximum performance of your PC, regardless of where you go and what you do.

Pros: Two-Way firewall, Safe Desktop, Hourly threat signature updates

Cons: Pricy, yearly subscription

Conclusion: Just because you have Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 doesn't mean you can be careless. Despite its advanced protection technology, applications like this are unfortunately just one or two steps behind the hackers. If you play, you're going to get bitten. It’s a fact; and it's just a matter of time before it happens, and it WILL happen to everyone at one point or another.  The best thing you can do is protect yourself the best way you can.

Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 is one of the best internet suites available on the internet today.  Its hourly updates and advanced features insure you always have the latest protection available to you.  However, the application is expensive for a desktop app and requires a complete "repurchase" every year.