Ashtech

The new Hot Rod from the Kaspersky Labs is sure going to set your Desktops on fire. With almost a 99% catching rate with month old signatures this baby will keep your computer Virus-Free and RootKit-Free.

OVERVIEW

I just got my hands on this baby and I must admit this is cool! Just after installing this on my hardware it had caught around 120 viruses on my PC with month old virus signatures which my Norton 2007 couldn’t do with up to date signatures(in your face Symantec!).

The program’s generally light with not much system resources required.Though it says it slows down the PC 10% I reckon its much lower than that…,maybe around 5%-6%(wow!that’s the first modest company I’ve seen in years!).So lets start with the review.

INTERFACE

They have streamlined the new interface which is much more sleeker and attractive than the no-frills KAV 6.0 approach, though it looks the same while scanning, the KAV labs have retained the close window option while scanning and also feature an emergency automatic resume function that really helps.

PERFORMANCE

The major gain over the other applications in the pack is it’s low system requirements. once installed it isn’t even detectable on a low-end PC(by low, I mean at least 256 Mb of ram and a 2.5 Ghz+ Processor).

Another positive is the bundelled rootkit scanner which makes sure you have a healthy PC.though it must be said that the firewall is extremely irritating at times asking for instructions at every point(It asked me if it should delete explorer.exe as it affected application integrity…). Kaspersky retains its title for the fastest and smallest updating service in the world and is dream.

CONCLUSION

If you are ready to spend some time teaching the firewall how to work the i’ve got four words for you-

“Go & Get It“