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KL AV for Free. Secure the Whole World Will Be. | Nota Bene: Eugene Kaspersky's Official Blog

Hi folks!

I’ve some fantastic, earth-shattering-saving news: we’re announcing the global launch of Kaspersky Free, which, as you may have guessed by the title, is completely free-of-charge! Oh my giveaway!

We’ve been working on this release for a good year-and-a-half, with pilot versions in a few regions, research, analysis, tweaks and the rest of it, and out of all which we deduced the following:

The free antivirus won’t be competing with our paid-for versions. In our paid-for versions there are many extra features, like: Parental Control, Online Payment Protection, and Secure Connection (VPN), which easily justify the ~$50 for premium protection.
There are a lot of users who don’t have the ~$50 to spend on premium protection; therefore, they install traditional freebies (which have more holes than Swiss cheese for malware to slip through) or they even rely on Windows Defender (ye gods!).
An increase in the number of installations of Kaspersky Free will positively affect the quality of protection of all users, since the big-data-bases will have more numbers to work with to better hone the machine learning.
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honestly , ive been using defender since windows 10 beta launched and its working fine. Sometimes I run spybot search and destroy just to update its database
 
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damn. too late. it installed after downloading automatically 😕

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or maybe it's not really the free version as it shows validity of one year.
 
Kaspersky Secure Connection is installed automatically with Kaspersky Internet Security 2017. When you connect to a wireless network, Kaspersky Secure Connection checks the connection and, if the network is vulnerable or dangerous, offers to establish the secure connection.
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Hmm. So this is useful if one uses public WiFi.
 
after a few days of using it, i have not found any major reason to remove it. i did uninstall their vps product which also got installed along with it and added itself to the task bar. i also had to disable all browser extensions that it installed (sigh) and changed some settings. two of them was related to injecting itself in web pages (secure and insecure) to show safety of links which i assume was aimed at search result pages. so it does require some initial work. to keep it out of the way.

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