Palinurus
The Living Force
Good news for those who want reliable anti-virus protection but cannot afford a high price. Kaspersky Lab has announced it's busy to roll out a free edition (without advertising) of its renowned program:
_https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2017/07/25/kl-av-for-free-secure-the-whole-world-will-be/
The roll out is going to be in fazes. Check the following article for a world wide overview of countries and dates:
_https://www.businessinsider.nl/kaspersky-free-anti-virus-software-2017-7/?international=true&r=US
More info and review here:
_http://www.pcworld.com/article/3211055/security/kaspersky-announces-free-antivirus-program.html
NOTE -- The mentioned redirection has been mended, see here: _https://www.kaspersky.com/free-antivirus
_https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2017/07/25/kl-av-for-free-secure-the-whole-world-will-be/
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.
And based on those three deductions we realized we had to do one thing, and fast: roll out a KL freebie all over the planet!
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The roll out is going to be in fazes. Check the following article for a world wide overview of countries and dates:
_https://www.businessinsider.nl/kaspersky-free-anti-virus-software-2017-7/?international=true&r=US
More info and review here:
_http://www.pcworld.com/article/3211055/security/kaspersky-announces-free-antivirus-program.html
Kaspersky Free will start rolling out in the U.S., Canada, and "many of the Asia Pacific countries" today, July 25, for Kaspersky's 25th anniversary, before rolling out to the rest of the world over the coming months. At the time of writing, however, the announcement post's link to the Kaspersky Free page redirected to Kaspersky USA's homepage.
NOTE -- The mentioned redirection has been mended, see here: _https://www.kaspersky.com/free-antivirus