I have been using Kaspersky for the protection of my valuable data and personal information and i can proudly day that I live in virus free environment, all thanks to kaspersky. Launch of Kaspersly 2009 was fresh in our minds that they came up with the beta release of all new Kasoersky Internet Security 2010. There are many new features of kespersky that are added in the new release but we will talk about all these technical stuffs later. Right now I will mention my personal experience testing the release for six days.

The first thing you will notice about the new release is all new main screen. They have surely made it beautiful from the previous versions adding all new visual effects and a gif file that shoes the real time monitoring of your file like a radar system. The ways kaspersky used to generate report and used to notify the user has also changed with all new charts for detailed analysis.

If you are using firefox and internet explorer there are two useful addons that come bundled with the installer :-

1. On Screen Keyboard :- I don’t know why Kaspersky Lab have included this feature , are they not confident with their protection, but it protect you from keyloggrs while you submit your valuable information on the internet . Want to know more about keyloggers and how they exploit your system READ HERE.
2. Link Filter :- This plugin filters all the url’s you visit from the database and warns you for any potentially dangerous websites.

One thing I did not liked about kaspersky is that they have removed the option of detailed information from both ondemand scans and update. Its nothing that great but i hope they  bring the details window in their final release.

Moving on to the tecnical stuffs here are the new features of Kaspersky 2010 as quoted by kaspersky

1) System watch
System watcher (all-in-one system for registering events)
HIPS (host intrusion prevention system – proactive defense, which is based on limiting application actions on a system)
PDM (system of proactive defense, which is based on application behavior analysis for malicious/suspicious activities)
Firewall (personal protection screen)
2) Malware protectionProtection of files and memory (File-Antivirus)
Protection of email and IM (Mail-Antivirus)
Protection of WEB (Web-Antivirus)
3) Online Security
Protection from Phishing (Anti-Phishing)
Protection against network attacks (IDS)
Protection from auto-dialers (Anti-Dialer)
4) Content Filtering
Spam Filtering (Anti-Spam)
Banner Filtering (Anti-Banner)
Parental Control
5) On Demand Scanning (Scan tasks)
6) Updater

Aggregated protection system status is displayed on a separate screen, from which modifications can be made to allow for “Your computer is protected”.

Several parts of product functionality are implemented using special tasks, which are on separate tabs for following components:
1) Window displays an overall system status
Analyzer of current system protection (heuristically)
Master to create RescueCD
Master of configuration problems troubleshooting
2) System Watch
Monitor of connected networks (with support for Wi-Fi and IPv6)
Monitor of network activities of applications
Packet sniffer (analysis of network packets)
3) Online Security
Master of Internet browser setup (Browser tweaker)
Master of system cleanup (Privacy tweaker)
Virtual Keyboard, protected against screenshot captures
4) Content Filtering
Anti-Spam training wizard

2. Graphical Interface

Product’s graphical interface was again written “from scratch”. With goals of code optimization and simplification, with dialogs some dialogs borrowed from 6.0/7.0. Main window changed considerably: to allow easier comprehension of longer lists the main window became re sizable, to decrease the number of separate dialogs, which opened in separate windows before, the main structure became table like – in addition navigator in the left side is combined with upper tabs; by grouping several elements together main navigator is not tree like anymore.
All-in-one settings window of v7.0 is now a much simpler (Options) window, whereby only the main product settings remained, with some new additional options. All settings which are component specific are directly linked and changed through the main window. The support for more contextual menu system, which was previously available, makes it more scalable.
Alerts (dialogs for user actions) are changed to include more information and simplification for correct actions for non-savvy users.
To enhance readability and flexibility of controlling multiple lists a new control method was developed, which replaced all default windows listing controls. It allows to do sorting, grouping (by multiple fields) and data filtering. Scheme of control using external buttons in such controls is replaced with “in-place” editing possibility.

3. Antivirus Protection

This build utilizes a new AV core engine, developed by Kaspersky Labs specialists. It allows to improve protection levels and speedup scanning through optimization of object handling and maximum utilization possibility of the hardware platform.
Technologies for object detection added with suspicious packers and multi-layered packing, which can be another characteristic for malware.
Possibility for granular threat type detection, including such category as “mostly unwanted software applications”.

4. Content Filtering

In Anti-Spam new technologies will be integrated, which are now in use in server products, and showed consistent efficiency (some of them will appear as early as KIS 7.0 MP1)

5. Scan Tasks

One of the tasks will be a vulnerability scanner of the user using an external updatable threat database.
Mechanism for earlier scan storage reports is changed to avoid problems, which were encountered with chkdsk utility.

6. System Watch

Main protection component of a new product, based on combination of reactive and proactive technologies. Main task of this component is to control the rights of active system applications, behavioral analysis, and also logging critical events, occurring in the system – for later analysis, for example to handle occurred incidents
Control of application rights is based on a system of rules and application resources which are available on the system and execution environment. Resources can be of different types, including file system objects, system registry, hardware devices, rights (interception of keyboard entry etc.), access operations, which was previously controlled by “Confidential Data”
Firewall is now logically part of System Watch, since its rules are part of application rights, in which the resource is network interactions. By default the product will pass all year end 2007 leaktests.

7. Additional Technologies:

Technologies based on AVZ engine: detailed computer analysis with a possibility of scripted disinfection; troubleshooting masters, browser settings configuration and system cleanup.
System to report detected objects onto a centralized KL database. This database will allow for better protection for most apparent threats and to notify users faster about epidemics. This feature can be switched off, although confidential data is never sent anyways.
Base driver klif.sys on all supported OS is replaced with a new version, which is not vulnerable to current known exploits.

The Beta test lisence is valid for 30 days from the date of activation but you can purchase the lisence from kaspersky labs if you are satisfied with the product.

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Ashish Mundhra has written 90 articles on Techno-Planet.

He is an enthusiast in the field of technology. A software engineering student, he enjoys learning about technological advancements and exploring the gamut of new developments in the field. Once versed with the knowledge, he loves sharing his experiences and experiments with the world.

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