All-round protection
Kaspersky® Personal Security Suite is a program
package specifically developed to provide comprehensive
protection from all types of malicious programs for
personal computers running under the Windows operating
system. This solution prevents the infiltration of
viruses, worms, spyware, adware and other malicious
programs via potential penetration paths, provides
protection against unauthorized access attempts, and
includes anti-spam components.
Protection against viruses
Kaspersky Personal Security Suite offers continuous
control over all sources of virus penetration into a
computer, including email, the Internet, removable
devices, etc. This application protects in real-time by
scanning all files as they are executed, created or
copied. It also offers multi-tier antivirus protection
of email, including scanning all incoming and outgoing
messages and email databases. The solution can scan over
1200 formats of archived and compressed files and
disinfect files in ZIP, CAB, RAR and ARJ formats.
This program is extremely easy to configure and
allows users to select one of the three predefined
levels of protection. The convenient interface enables
users to control all antivirus components and to
configure the computer's security system depending upon
the user's needs.
Protection against potentially hostile software
With Kaspersky Personal Security Suite the user's
computer can be protected not only against malicious
software, but also against potentially hostile programs,
including software for the remote harvesting of data and
controlling the victim computer (spyware), programs that
automatically establish modem connections with pay sites
(dialers), programs that redirect users to obscene
content sites (pornware), etc. Detection of such
software is provided by scanning the computer using the
extended antivirus databases.
Extended databases protect against adware and spyware
– the latest threats that endanger your computer.
Kaspersky Personal Security Suite makes it possible for
you to surf the Internet with confidence, secure in the
knowledge that your computer is secured against malware
of all types.
Protection against hacker attacks and information
theft
Kaspersky Personal Security Suite provides reliable
protection of the computer's data against hacker
attacks. The application is extremely easy to install
and configure. The user can choose from five predefined
security levels, each based on its own list of rules,
from disabling protection to completely blocking network
access. The intrusion detection system (IDS) is capable
of detecting and successfully repelling the most common
network attacks. This is achieved by continually
filtering all incoming and outgoing traffic. The program
can also detect attempts to scan ports, which often
precede network attacks, and blocks further
communication with the computer attempting the attack.
Kaspersky Personal Security Suite ensures uninterrupted
control of application activity and analyzes data
packets sent or received by the computer, thereby
regulating Internet access of programs installed on the
computer and preventing possible data theft.
Protection against spam
By using a multi-tier system for scanning email
traffic, Kaspersky Personal Security Suite protects
users from receiving unsolicited emails (e.g., spam).
Messages are filtered using unique linguistic
algorithms, as well as using a number of typical email
attributes. As much as 95% of spam is detected, while
the proportion of messages mistakenly identified as spam
does not exceed 0.01%. The anti-spam component
automatically integrates into Microsoft Outlook and
Microsoft Outlook Express mail programs during
installation, and is easily configured and controlled
using tools which are integrated with the mail client's
control panel. Unwanted messages are sorted and broken
up into several categories, and the user can define
further actions to be performed by the solution on
messages in each category.
Support for mobile users
Kaspersky Personal Security Suite has a number of
features making it convenient for mobile users. If an
Internet connection is lost or interrupted, the program
will automatically continue downloading the antivirus
database updates whenever the connection is restored, so
that the user will not lose the part of the updates
which has already been downloaded. The size of hourly
antivirus database updates is 150 KB, while daily
updates of the lexical signature databases used for
filtering spam have an average size of 300 KB. The
system can be used in Stealth Mode, which reliably
protects computers that have remote network connections
by making them “invisible”. When the system is in
Stealth Mode, no network activity is allowed except that
initiated by the user.
