Kaspersky Pure V’s Kaspersky Internet Security 2009

I bet some of you reading this have immediately thought “Why 2009 and not 2010?!”. Well we found that 2009 runs much smoother and quicker, particularly on Windows XP computers than the 2010 version. With this in mind, unless the computer is running Windows 7, we stick to 2009. There is plenty of value in sticking to what you know works.

This versus article has came about because of a few reasons………

Performance | How quick does it start up and does it slow your computer down?

Having used Kaspersky Internet Security for some time now both internally at Lucid Towers and for many, many of our customers it was always well thought of. Having attended a Kaspersky Road Show though, I was given a free copy of Kaspersky Pure to try out. Having installed this on one of our office computers (nothing flash, just the admin PC running a Pentium D, 2GB RAM, XP Pro) it became apparently it was a little more resource hungry than Internet Security. The boot time was longer and the overall ‘feel’ of the computer was clunky (technical term) and simply not at smooth as it was previously. Now you could point to the fact that the selected computer isn’t the greatest spec, but I’m not interested in providing and supporting solutions where the customer would need to upgrade their hardware just to run Anti Virus software. So on this simple battle, Internet Security wins here for me.

Virus Detection Rates | What can it detect and remove from your computer?

Now this is very important. You always want your Anti Virus software to detect as many viruses, Trojans, Spyware etc as possible. We had a customers laptop come in to us as they had one of the many flavours of fake Anti Virus installed. Having scanned the system with Kaspersky Pure it detected and treated six of these viruses. However the machine was still clearly infected as it was still unusable. Having then scanned it with Kaspersky Internet Security, it removed well over twenty viruses which Kaspersky Pure hadn’t detected. This is worrying. A newer product not detecting as much as the old version simply isn’t good enough. For this reason alone you should stick to Internet Security.

Ease of Use | Do you need qualifications from NASA to use it?

As a techie geek sort of person, you would imagine all pieces of computer software would be easy for us to use. This simply isn’t true though, we see various software applications which only someone with a Masters in Biometrics would be able to figure out. Having used Kaspersky Internet Security for a few years now, configuring this product is second nation to us and easy to do. More importantly though, end users are able to configure it with minimal advice. Kaspersky Pure on the other hand though, is rather difficult. It took us a good few minutes to figure out how to get to the settings for each component. If this took us a few minutes, muggles would have no chance.

Overall Conclusion

As I’m sure you have already gathered, we will be sticking to recommending Kaspersky Internet Security for the time being because it wins all of our basic tests. I’m not sure what or who Kaspersky Pure is aimed at, but maybe Kaspersky need a rethink on this.

About the Author: Some say he invented Oxygen and he once read The Sun by accident. All we know he is called Gavin Moorhouse and from his base in Redditch, Worcestershire he runs Lucid Computer Solutions Ltd who provide IT Support and Computer Services in the surrounding areas of Bromsgrove, Evesham, Worcester and Stratford-upon-Avon to name just a few.