Kaspersky Internet Security 2013: Review ((link))

He leaned back. His PC was slower. But for the first time in months, Alex felt safe.

If Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 were a person, it would be a gruff, ex-military bodyguard who refuses to smile. It wasn't fun. It wasn't fast. It asked annoying questions. It ate up system resources like a hungry bear.

But when Alex tried to visit a shady streaming site, the page loaded blank with a red Kaspersky banner: “Dangerous page blocked.” When a Java script tried to run silently in the background, Kaspersky killed it without asking. kaspersky internet security 2013 review

"Kaspersky Internet Security 2013: 8/10. It’s the digital equivalent of living in a bank vault. It’s annoying, heavy, and your computer will groan under the weight. But if you’re the kind of person who clicks things they shouldn’t, or if you’ve ever had your identity stolen, you won’t care about the fan noise. You’ll just be glad the monster isn't in your closet anymore."

This was where the review got interesting. He tried to run a legitimate game— StarCraft II . The firewall immediately blocked it. No silent allow. A popup asked: “Allow ‘StarCraft II’ to act as a server?” Alex didn’t know what that meant. He clicked “Allow and Remember.” The game stuttered for the first ten seconds, then smoothed out. He leaned back

The clock on Alex’s taskbar ticked over to 11:47 PM. Outside his window, the city was a smear of rain and neon, but inside his one-bedroom apartment, the only light came from the harsh glow of his custom-built PC. He was three hours into a "clean" install of Windows 7, and his fingers hovered over the keyboard like a surgeon’s.

He had just been burned. Badly. The "Free Antivirus 2012" he’d downloaded last month wasn’t free; it was a digital Trojan horse that had turned his machine into a zombie spewing spam. His bank had called. His email had been locked. It was humiliating. If Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 were a person,

He navigated to a torrent site—a place he usually avoided, but for the sake of the review in his head, he took a risk. He clicked a magnet link for a cracked version of Photoshop. Immediate reaction. Before the download even registered in Chrome, a crimson window popped up.