Ever wished you had a product that could do everything to protect your computer from the dangers of the Internet? Well, K7 Total Security 10.0--an India-based computer security software company--promises just that. Read on and find out!
Overview
I've never heard of K7 Computing until I volunteered to do a product review of K7 Total Security 10.0. It is not one of your mainstream security products, but this review will provide you with information so that you can decide for yourself if it is a product you can't live without. Here's what this review will cover.
- Who is K7 Computing?
- What will K7 Total Security do for you?
- Minimum system requirements
- Installation Experience
- Ease of use for Novice Users
- Configurability for Knowledgeable or Advanced Users
- System Performance and My First Scan
- Reporting, Updates, and Help
- Product Support
- Pricing
- The Verdict
K7 Computing
Who is K7 Computing
With a product that is obviously not very well known, especially in the U.S., you'll want to know a little about the company that produced it. If you used Google Trends, and specify "K7 Computing", you will notice that articles about it didn't start coming out until as early as the beginning of 2008. People didn't start searching for it until just recently in the second half of 2009. Thus this would explain why I haven't really heard of this product, as it is very new to the market--at least the US Market.
According to their web site, the company is based out of Chennai, India. The company has been around since 1991 with 16 years of experience and expertise in protecting digital assests against various malware over the Internet, and is said to have over 9 million satisfied paid customers. They released their first antivirus product for DOS back in 1992. K7 Total Security was actually first released in 2002 with antivirus, anti-span, firewall, and privacy control features. In 2003, they partnered up with a Japanese software publishing company to sell their K7 Virus Security software. Four years later, in 2007, they opened a huge facility in OMR, Chennai; and by 2009, they claim to have reached over 9 million customers.
What will K7 Total Security do for you?
Based on their marketing information, it will pretty much do everything to protect your computer! Here is what they advertise the product will do for you:
If you ask me, this is definitely everything but the kitchen sink. You are probably thinking--"with all these features, it will probably cause my computer to come to a crawl." We will find out; so read on.
Minimum System Requirements
These are the minimum system requirements for K7 Total Security:
- Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000,Windows XP SP2/Windows Vista
- Complete 64 bit support including Vista 64 bit, XP 64 Bit, Windows 7 64Bit
- RAM: 512MB
- Hard Disk: 60 MB
- Internet connection for registration and updates
This isn't too bad, considering most computer systems today are being sold with anywhere from 1GB to 4 GB of RAM. I do have some computers I've purchased about 3 years ago that only has 512MB of RAM, so this means that most users today should be able to take advantage of this product.
As you can see from the first bullet, there doesn't seem to be support for Windows 7; however, because of the second bullet, I'm guessing that this was just an oversight in their content. This information can be found in their product page.