Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 and Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 was released earlier this month but there is no word of such release on their press center. However, a big promotional banner showing boxes of the new releases with a football field as a backdrop indicating that Kaspersky is trying to ride along the EURO 2008 football season tipped us off about the released. Today we will be taking a preview of the Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 which spots a whole new graphic user interface (GUI). Cool!!

New features of Kaspersky Anti-virus 2009:

• Scans operating system and installed applications for vulnerabilities
• Disables links to malware sites
• Global threat monitoring (Kaspersky® Security Network)
• Restores correct system settings after removing malicious software

New features of Kaspersky Internet Security 2009:

• All the new features of Kasperksy Anti-Virus 2009
• Application rules configured automatically
• Security rating assigned to unknown applications
• Access to user’s resources and data is restricted for unknown applications
• Virtual keyboard for safe entry of logins and passwords
• Prevents theft of data exchanged via secure connections (HTTPS / SSL)

Screenshots:

Kaspersky Main Control Panel

Kaspersky Scanning Panel

Love the new scanning features. Now you do not have the extra one pop-up window while scanning process - scanning is done in the main window. Besides that, it is nice that they have included a scan history so that you can continue scanning from the location where you last stop the scan as you do not need to re-scan the whole drive after pressing the stop button. Alternatively, you can issue a totally new scan process.

Kaspersky Anti-Malware Panel

Spots two utility button, the System Restore and Rescue Disk. System Restore is a new functionality in this 2009 version. This tool is able to return back certain Windows options after which a virus has disabled them. The Rescue Disk on the other hand, allows you to create a bootable disk and use it to perform a virus scan in a reduced set environment the event Windows have failed to boot up after a virus attack.

Kaspersky Vulnerability Alert

One of the new sound features of Kaspersky 2009 is the ability to detect vulnerability in software programs installed on the system. This serves as an alert to users. Users are encourage to perform an update to those softwares.

Conclusion

Over the years Kaspersky has proven a good detection record when dealing with malwares and they have done it again in this new better release.

View Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 Product Page

View Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 Product Page

View Kaspersky 2009 Promotional Page