For the last year or two I've been running Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 on my main desktop computer. Today Kaspersky announced the release of version 7.0 and we have a review of it by Neil Rubenking. Actually, Neil reviews Kaspersky Internet Security, a superset of KAV.

I'm not sure why I have more confidence in KAV than other products, but I do. I originally chose it for my production system because people I respected said good things about it. For myself I'm not interested in most of what the KIS product offers; I have other security products operating on my network and I can handle most of the threats on my own. I have Sunbelt's Ninja running which protects all my inbound mail with two antispam and two antivirus engines. So it's a rare day when malware makes it through to me via e-mail.

But it does get through, and things get through on other systems, and then I test them on KAV and it always finds what the others miss. I run many different antivirus engines on different systems in my house but I think I'll hold on to KAV on this one.