The company “Kaspersky Lab” held in Kiev presentation of its new anti-virus products, which have already begun to market. There were presented two products for home users: a full range of protection Kaspersky Internet Security 2013, as well as “Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2013”, which is a basic solution.
In Kaspersky Internet Security 2013, except for improved performance, the company has attached great importance to protecting personal data while shopping on the Internet, as well as any online banking. According to research conducted specifically for the “Kaspersky Lab”, around the world 77% of users make purchases over the Internet, and 69% regularly work with online banking systems.
IDC projected in 2012 will be made more than 1 billion online purchases totaling more than $ 1.2 trillion. Under these conditions, the growth of online payments is accompanied by increased activity of fraudsters, and users are increasingly worried about the safety of your data, say in “Kaspersky Lab”.
How to assure the company, the updated Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 incorporates several new technologies to combat the most common and complex threats that target personal information and bank account of the user.
The technology “Secure Payment” provides a set of methods of protection for financial transactions over the Internet. Which include online shopping, e-payment systems and access your bank account from your computer. Function is automatically activated when you visit popular payment and banking sites, the site itself authenticates the payment system, as well as state security computer user. In addition, it proposes to open a site in the special secure mode, in which controlled access to other programs and processes to the transmitted data, providing protection against theft.
The “Virtual Keyboard”, designed for the protection of valuable confidential data from keyloggers, was reinforced by another technology called “Protection of data entry with a hardware keyboard” – it uses a special driver to avoid capture typing malware on input from normal keyboard.
To protect users from phishing attacks in the two products include the module “Anti-phishing.” Some of its features include automatic updates and improved heuristic detection sites where hackers try to steal passwords and other user data.
The composition of Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 also includes a new core anti-spam, junk mail detection product in the e-mail.
As reported in “Kaspersky Lab” based Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 and “Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2013” is a new anti-virus engine, with a higher percentage of detection of all types of malware. In particular, it is stated that in the new kernel implemented specific techniques that increase the efficiency of the fight with complex and targeted threats by neutralizing attempts to inject malicious code into the core system processes.
In addition to all of the above, Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 and “Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2013” also received an updated interface.