| Developers: | Kaspersky Lab |
| Date of the premiere of the system: | January, 2016 |
| Last Release Date: | July, 2017 |
| Technology: | Cybersecurity - Antiviruses |
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Kaspersky Free is a free antivirus. The solution offers file protection in real time, a web antivirus, IM and a mail antivirus. The license for a product is provided free of charge for 1 year with automatic prolongation.
About the Product
As a part of the product Kaspersky Free there are components for ensuring basic protection of the computer, important data and online activity in the Internet from the most modern threats.
File antivirus
- The file antivirus helps to avoid infection of the file system of the computer. The component is started at start of the operating system, resides in RAM of the computer and checks the files all opened, saved and started on your computer and on all attached disks.
Mail antivirus
- The mail antivirus checks the entering/proceeding e-mails on the computer.
Web antivirus
- The web antivirus intercepts and blocks accomplishment of the scripts located on websites if these scripts pose security risk of the computer. The web Antivirus controls all web traffic and blocks access to dangerous websites.
IM antivirus
- The IM antivirus ensures safety of work with IM clients. The component protects information arriving under protocols of IM clients.
Participation in Kaspersky Security Network
- For increase in efficiency of protection of the computer the product uses protection from a cloud. It is implemented by means of infrastructure of Kaspersky Security Network.
2017: Global start
On July 26, 2017 Kaspersky Lab announced an exit to mass market of a free antivirus of Kaspersky Free. The producer claims that the new product does not compete with paid solutions.
 | There is excellent news — we announce global global start of a free antivirus of Kaspersky Free! For all comers, "non-paid, i.e. for nothing" — the head of the company Evgeny Kaspersky reported. |  |
The pilot version of Kaspersky Free was tested in the markets of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, China, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland earlier. Since July 25, 2017 it will be available in the USA, Canada, Kazakhstan and the countries of the Pacific Rim. In September the antivirus will be available in India, Hong Kong, in the Middle East, in Africa, Turkey and Latin America. For October it is planned release in Europe, Japan and South Korea.
As developers note, Kaspersky Free will not compete with paid versions in which there is a set of additional functions. For example, in it there are no prayvas (VPN) available only in paid option of parent control, protection of online payments, safe connection also.
| | There is a significant amount of users who have no two thousand rubles on bonus protection because of what they are forced to set hand-made articles full of holes and even to use actively imposed Microsoft Windows Defender. Increase in number of the Free installations positively affects quality of protection for all users due to the big data expansion of base for machine learning technologies — Kaspersky noted, explaining the reasons of creation of a free antivirus. | |
Kaspersky Lab worked on Kaspersky Free within 18 months, product output is dated for the 20 anniversary of the company. The free antivirus, according to Kaspersky, "was sold out in circulation in several million copies".[1]
2016: Release of the test version
On January 3, 2016 the Kaspersky Lab announced release of the free version of antivirus protection of Kaspersky Free. A product for home (non-commercial) use[2].
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