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Kaspersky Anti Hacker - Review

Kaspersky Anti-Hacker v1.7 is a relatvly new firewall for home and home office users.

1. Outside Protection
Anti-Hacker protects your computer completly. The user must remeber to check the "stealth mode" checkbox in order to get full protection.

2. Inside Protection
Anti-Hacker monitors application activity and requires your approval for new software. It identifies software type quite well.

3. Advanced users
Kaspersky has an intuitive user interface for new application rules or packet rules. For example, when asked to approve a new software you can click customized and then change instantly the rule using a few mouse clicks. The seperation between application rules and packet rules allows to permit a certain activity for all applications (for example connecting to a DNS server).
Much much bettern that Norton's.

4. LAN support (irrelevant for standalone PCs)
I tried to work with a license server on my PC that serves other computers on my Local Area Network. Unfortunatly, it worked only when Stealth Mode was unchecked, even when I gave it full permissions to work. This is a real drawback if you must setup an intranet server of some kind (proxy server,license server,etc...) on the same computer that connects your LAN to the internet.

5. Documentation
The software is so easy to use, that no documentation is necessary. Anti-Hacker comes with a 100 PDF userguide that explains each step for those that want to understand more.

6. Mother control
Kaspersky allows to easily change between training mode (for advanced users) and do-not-bother-me mode for my mother. This is a great advantage for those of us that setup the firewall for somebody that always clicks the "I Agree" button.

Overall, I would recommend Anti-Hacker for standalone PCs.

Itai

posted by Itai Frenkel @ 11:33 PM