Kaspersky Lab has released Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011, which the company says offer real-time proactive protection, by constantly monitoring systems to detect any potential threats and prevent destructive activity.
According to Vasily Dyagilev, head of regional retail sales at Kaspersky Lab, the solutions isolate untrustworthy Internet resources, protecting the digital environment without limiting what the user can do.
He says it ensures protection for all types of data and communications. “The system operates in background mode and does not make constant demands on the user to do its job efficiently.”
A new feature, System Watcher technology, monitors all system events in full - creation and modification of files, system calls and changes to the system registry. Due to this monitoring, Kaspersky says protection solutions detect any type of malicious programs, both known and new.
The majority of unwanted changes to the system made by malicious programs can be rolled back with just a few mouse clicks, the company adds.
Dyagilev says the products incorporate reputation rating services, in which information about a known object is received in real-time without the need for it to be scanned locally. The information is sourced from Kaspersky's databases, which are continually updated.
He says both solutions feature improved proactive protection from as yet unknown threats based on scanning for typical threat symptoms. “Importantly, all the main modules are updateable, which means that should completely new types of threats emerge, the products' features can be updated without having to reinstall the solution from scratch.”
New to both products, says Dyagilev, is the Windows Gadget feature, an element of the interface located on the Windows Desktop in Windows Vista and Windows 7, which offers quick access to the product's main features. “It displays the computer's security status, allows a file to be scanned with a single mouse click, and enables an application to be launched in Safe Run mode.”
The products also have the ability to use the product installation disc as a rescue disc which contains a range of utilities for scanning or treating an infected computer without the necessity of downloading a bootable operating system.
“In addition, the products have the ability to be installed on a machine that has already been infected by such sophisticated threats as rootkits that generally try to combat the deployment of anti-virus solutions.”
Speaking of parental control, he adds that Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 contains a significantly improved module that restricts a child's access to social networking sites, instant messaging and specific programs on the computer. “It can also control the downloading of files and the transfer of personal data.”
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