Publisher's Review:
Premium antivirus protection for professional individual users and home offices. The program includes a range of configuration options to optimise depth of scanning:
- monitors all sources of potential virus infection
- integrated OfficeGuard technology protects MS Office applications
- supports a broad range of mail programs
- restoration of data in files infected by viruses
- improved management tools and detailed notifications
- Antivirus database updates every hour, round-the-clock
Reliable protection against infection
- Kaspersky Antivirus 2011 constantly monitors all sources of possible virus infections: email, the Internet, CDs and more. Personal Pro also protects all parts of your PC: system memory, boot sector, files, mail databases and etc. It also contains unique technology for protecting your MS Office documents.
Scanning archived and compressed files
- Viruses often hide in archived and compressed files, where most antivirus solutions have trouble finding them. Not Kaspersky AntiVirus Personal Pro. This solution scans over 900 types of archived and compressed files and even disinfects ZIP files.
Real-time protection
- Kaspersky Anti-Virus provides real-time virus scans, checking files each time they are created, opened or copied. The antivirus monitor imbedded deeply into the operating system checks all file operations instantaneously. Kaspersky Personal Pro monitors all local drives automatically or according to user-defined rules.
Continuous email filtration
- Kaspersky 8 scans all emails for possible infection and detects all types of malware. The solution supports a broad range of mail databases: Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, The Bat!, Netscape Messenger, Opera mail client and IncrediMail Kaspersky Anti-Virus successfully protects mail traffic and deletes viruses from MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express email databases. The virus scanner checks every layer, including all archived and compressed files, of every email, incoming and outgoing.
Pro-active protection from macro viruses
- Kaspersky Anti Virus ensures total control over macros in all MS Office documents and halts all suspicious activity. This means that you are guaranteed almost total protection from macro-viruses, including unknown ones. Your MS Office documents are safe!
Productivity and reliability
- Kaspersky Anti Virus boasts state-of-the-art technology that increases program speed significantly. iChecker™ technology makes Personal Pro appreciably more reliable and dependable than competing products.
Data integrity
- Personal Pro also includes an Inspector module that traces all changes occurring on your PC, such as: altering, deleting or creating files. All of these activities can be signs of a virus infection. By checking only modified or new files, the solution increases both speed and effectiveness. If Personal Pro detects any viruses, you are able to restore the file to its original state and delete the infected object.
Protection against new viruses
- Experts at Kaspersky Labs proudly present our second-generation heuristic virus analyzer that protects you from unknown viruses. This intricate and advanced technology detects almost 100% of previously undocumented viruses.
Quarantine for infected objects
- Kaspersky Anti-Virus isolates all infected and suspicious objects in a special folder, where you can safely examine them at your leisure. Your PC is safe, while you are free to continue your own work, instead of worrying about malicious code.
Stopping script viruses
- Classic antivirus solutions are incapable of stopping script viruses from infecting RAM. Kaspersky Anti-Virus can, due to the built-in Script Checker. Script Checker serves as a filter between scripts and the corresponding application, which means all scripts run on your PC are scanned before being executed.
Changelog:
(Kaspersky Antivirus 2011)
New in protection:
- The Sandbox technology, which uses virtualization methods to create a safe environment for running applications (Safe Run for Applications), has been significantly improved. The application now features the option to run suspicious applications on a dedicated virtual desktop, which ensures reliable protection of the operating system. Safe Run for Websites (safe browser), which protects data being entered by the user, has been implemented to allow handling websites that require entering confidential information.
- The scope of the Web Anti-Virus component has been expanded thanks to the new modules that had been added:
- - Online Banking identifies banking websites and allows the user to switch to Safe Run for Websites, which has been designed to handle this sort of web resources.
- - Safe Surf consists of previously implemented Kaspersky URL Advisor enhanced with a new mode of blocking websites with high threat rating calculated by Kaspersky Lab. When this mode is enabled, access to dangerous websites will be blocked. When viewing unknown websites, the component will offer the user to switch to Safe Run for Websites.
- - Geo Filter lets you block or allow access to regional domains depending on their infection level.
- A new technology named Wisdom of the Crowd has been implemented; it provides information about applications usage frequency and data on trust group distribution among the participants of the Kaspersky Security Network service. This information allows making a weighed decision when assigning a trust status to a new application.
- Users of Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows 7 can enable Kaspersky Gadget, which displays the computer protection state and allows scanning objects for threats.
- System Watcher has been added, a new protection component, which analyzes file, registry, system and network activities on the computer, while collecting information about events detected by other protection components.
If any dangerous activity in the system is detected by Proactive Defense or File Anti-Virus (or in the course of virus scan), System Watcher rolls back the actions that have been performed by malicious programs.
System Watcher contains patterns of dangerous activity (BSS). Those patterns allows detecting both dangerous and suspicious activities on the computer. If any suspicious activity in the system is detected based on the patterns (or by Proactive Defense), a notification with information about the event is displayed on the screen.
- A new technology, which has been designed to run tasks on an idle computer, allows performing resource-intensive tasks, such as automatic update, scan of system memory, and scan of objects for rootkits, while the computer is turned on but remains idle.
- To improve reliability of the application, it provides protection against interception of DNS requests and substitution of network node addresses.
- In addition to HTTP traffic scan, Web Anti-Virus also scans FTP traffic now.
- Since new mail clients (such as Microsoft Live Mail) appear, Mail Dispatcher functionality is no longer supported.
What has been improved:
- The HIPS (Host-based Intrusion Prevention System) technology designed for controlling applications' activity has been significantly improved, which allows applying a unique set of restrictions and rules to an individual application, blocking run of untrusted applications until Kaspersky Internet Security is started, and excluding specified objects from the list of resources that should be controlled. The range of the application's privileges has been extended; a more accurate algorithm is now used to define application statuses.
- The Parental Control component has been enhanced and improved to better ensure control of messaging via social networks and IM clients, blockage of messaging with unwanted contacts and transfer of identity data, and restriction of computer and Internet usage time, file downloads, and run of various applications.
- The technologies of the Anti-Spam component have been enhanced. The image processing technology has been brought up to a new level of quality, the size of the databases has been reduced, and the text filtering technology for non-Latin languages has been improved.
- Advanced disinfection technology has also been improved. The AVPTool utility can be downloaded now. It scans the computer if any errors have been encountered when installing the application, thus giving rise to suspicions that the computer had been infected.
Thanks to a more efficient processing of installation errors detected when the computer is suspected of being infected, the rollback procedure has been improved for installation complicated by errors.
- The Rescue Disk creation service has been improved: an ISO image file can now be recorded on a CD or a USB data medium. The option to work in text mode has been added. When booting the system from the Rescue Disk, startup objects are scanned, in addition to boot sectors and file systems.
- The scope of the Kaspersky Security Network service has been extended. Protection and reliability of interaction with Kaspersky Security Network have been improved, including proxy server mode.
- The Urgent Detection System (UDS) technology has been enhanced by increasing the speed of adding new threats into the database and by improving the algorithm of UDS access.
- The application now scans the system for rootkits with higher efficiency. The new updatable component allows detecting a greater number of rootkits and adding entries of new rootkits into databases with a shorter response time. Fully updatable disinfection logic ensures quick counteraction to new types of rootkits.
- The Anti-Phishing technology has been enhanced thanks to use of analysis of images, HTML pages and URLs, as well as linguistic analysis of text content in messages.
- News Agent has been optimized still remaining the main tool of news delivery initiated by Kaspersky Lab.
- Automatic downloading and installation of a new version of the application have been implemented in addition to notification of release of a new version.
What's new in the application interface:
- The application interface has been optimized to simplify usage for beginners.
- Event notifications are completely redesigned to gain more intuitive and informative appearance.
- The context menu that provides access to the main features of the application has become more convenient and better structured.
- Starting from the 2011 version, custom component selection is not supported when installing the application. The application is installed in its entirety. If necessary, individual protection components can be excluded from the application interface
