Alternative to Kaspersky INTERNET SECURITY - Anti Virus software for business

[Jayman21]

Hello All,
I have been a user of Kaspersky INTERNET SECURITY - Anti Virus software for business as a Barclays customer. Now Kaspersky INTERNET SECURITY - Anti Virus software is no more a free offering from Barclays do you recommend an alternative? and whats your experience?
Thanks

 

[MikeJ]

We use Avast, and purchase a three year licence for 10 PCs in the office. We moved to them around 6 or 7 years ago and at the time it was just what we wanted. Now, by default, it'll try to sell you upgrades as you're using it. You can switch off the alerts, but the fact they have adverts in paid software is really annoying.

Performance wise, it's pretty good. We've not had a virus get past it yet. It can be a bit over protective, "Sandboxing" a program countless times because it doesn't recognise it but you can exclude packages if that's causing an issue.

 

[Ashley_Price]

I use Bitdefender, but to be honest, any virus package if it is set up correctly should provide good protection.

It's rather like toothpaste - at the end of the day they all clean your teeth.

 

[Annoying Donkey]

Linux with a good firewall...

 

[Ian J]

I've just uninstalled AVG Internet Security as it clashes with Malwarebytes and keeps trying to stop it from working so I elected to keep the latter

 

[Ashley_Price]

I've just uninstalled AVG Internet Security as it clashes with Malwarebytes and keeps trying to stop it from working so I elected to keep the latter

This can happen, sometimes you need to whitelist or exclude the other program so it knows to leave it alone.

 

[Chris Ashdown]

Why do you rely of a free software package that probably only does some of the job when for a tiny amount of money you can protect your data in full. Your happy to risk your business for the sake of a £30 odd pound bit of software

 

[Ashley_Price]

Why do you rely of a free software package that probably only does some of the job

The Kaspersky package being offered by Barclays was the complete software. They do these offers to try and attract people to having business accounts with them. We got Quickbooks software for just £5.00 a month when we had a Barclays account (we already had the account, we didn't sign up just to get QB).

 

[Alan]

Linux with a good firewall...

The best answer.

But if your really insist on using on using security flawed software like Windows, then I'd recommend Bitdefender.

Why do you rely of a free software package

Apart from the fact you get a better product when you pay for it, I'm pretty certain that for the vast majority it is against the licence agreement to use the free product for business. Apart from the ethics of effectively stealing £30 or so from another company, if you are unlucky enough to get a data breach I wonder how the conversation goes with the ICO - yea I took adequate steps to protect personal data I was using a free and hence unlicensed antivirus?

Don't forget that the vast majority of breaches that are not physical ( e.g. left laptop on train ) start with a payload that gets downloaded and executed on Windows.

 

[estwig]

Been a big fan of Eset for years, it just seems to quietly do it's thing and I've never had a problem.

 

[GLAbusiness]

Another vote for ESET. Used it for years, never a problem. And it always gets good scores in tests.

 

[The_Hypnotist]

Don't ditch KIS, just get it renewed for another year.

Nothing matches Kaspersky Internet Security at the moment, ignore the propaganda that mentioned that Kaspersky tools are a Russian monitoring tool.

 

[Chris Ashdown]

Don't ditch KIS, just get it renewed for another year.

Nothing matches Kaspersky Internet Security at the moment, ignore the propaganda that mentioned that Kaspersky tools are a Russian monitoring tool.

I bet you get many secrets your customers don't want to tell you whilst under your control

 

[GLAbusiness]

Nothing matches Kaspersky Internet Security at the moment,

Take this with one pinch of salt, twice a day

 

[Mohamed IBrahim]

AVG is the one I use

 

[Highland Spring]

I have to laugh a little at this one Barclays withdrew their support when it was revealed that Kasperksy work closely with the Russian Intelligence service sharing all your data with the successora to the KGB. So whilst it may be great at detecting hackers and clearing out malware all along it was passing all your business info to the Russian State!

 

[Craig Bird]

AV alone is not really good enough for general business requirements, we stopped offering AV as a standalone offering to our clients and now offer a bundle that not only includes a business grade AV product (that is updated, managed and monitored by our team) but also management of updates for Windows/Mac/3rd Party software products to harden your device, monitoring of system health (Disk space, error logs, performance), software/hardware inventory, and performance improvement though continuous checks and deletion of crap on machines that make them grind down over a period of time. We also report on this monthly which shows the value of this approach and provides true value. We are not the only company that can offer this so speak to a few IT businesses to see if they can deliver this level of capability - It may cost a little more but provides much better security, control and security that should be the minimum level of security of endpoint security and control.

 

[pelparc]

Didn't really listen to the hysterical ohhhh its the Russians propaganda, i thought it was all based on the fact that to enable Kaperksy to check suspect files it analyses them by sending it to Kapersky in exactly the same way many of the other AV software companies work and the whole story is just a load of BS. I don't claim to know anything about it, however to me (and i'm normally wrong) if you are concerned about the data on your PC then you probably shouldn't be using 99% of the software you have installed.

 

[The Byre]

Avast Free.

 

[Chris Ashdown]

Whats wrong with Windows Defender

I use it as well as Malwarebytes both seem to work in harmony, but Malwarebytes is the first at warning on opening a dodgy site

 

[Dimo]

What's wrong with Windows Defender? A few things...but personally speaking anything associated with Microsoft or Windows isn't worth having. I have one computer running Win7 with updates which on start-up STILL can't remember where the desktop icons belong. A minor annoyance that required a third party fix.

For AV software this test may be of interest: https://www.pcworld.com/article/302...tivirus-is-less-awful-than-it-used-to-be.html

 

[Gofever]

MkAfee total protection on eBay cracking deals.And Glasswire firewall and nobody is getting in.

 

[Nico Albrecht]

Not sure were the issue is Kaspersky works out at around £5 per device per year. A business should be able to afford that for basic security. The last time I checked there were a US business. KGB or NSA what difference does it make but to be fair Kaspersky is very good at blocking phishing and detecting unknown threats. There child safe app for devices is top notch and never had an issue with them. Bitdefender is fine and also Eset. For the rest they are pretty much rubbish. Windows Defender works but is not great and many things slip by. I deal with huge amounts of customer data getting through our business and Kaspersky never let me down.

 

[Mohamed IBrahim]

Is AVG not strong enough?

 

[Magda kafelek]

I'am working with AVAST . I think if this is better as Kaspersky

 

[Chris Ashdown]

I work with both defender and Malwarebytes together and they seem to be happy running together and no obvious speed loss