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How to install Kaspersky Antivirus

 

Kaspersky AntiVirus is one of the best choices if you need a good antivirus software. It has a lot of features and I am not going to talk about them since the purpose of this article is to show you how to install Kaspersky Antivirus on Windows. From time to time, new version appears and it may look a little different depending on what version are you going to use. I will always recommend you to use the latest version. As I said let's start to see how to install Kaspersky Antivirus. First of all, you need to download Kaspersky Antivirus. Make sure to save the setup file on your computer ( you can save it on your desktop ) and then open the file, the following picture will give you an idea about the setup icon :

 

 

If you will open the setup file you should see a window that that says "Welcome to Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 Setup Wizard". This wizard will install Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 ( 9.0.0.463 ) on your computer. Click on the "Next" button to continue.

 

We advise you to close all other applications before continuing

 

Click Next to continue installation.

 

Click Cancel to exit Setup Wizard

 

Select "Custom installation" if you want to change settings during the installation ( this is recommended for advanced users )

 

Please Note: At the time that I writting this article the current version was as you can see ( 9.0.0.463 ) and the antivirus was named "2010". Those are "commercial" names given to such products to make you believe that this is an antivirus with "one year ahead the competition" and probably it's true. If it's confusing, try to remember only the current version ( 9.0.0.463 ). What I wanted to tell you is to look at the version number, since the design of this antivirus may change but the steps to complete an installation would remain the same even if you will use a newer version than this ( at the time that you will read this article ).

 

 

 

In this window you need to read the license agreement carefully and if you agree with all terms and conditions listed click on the "I agree" button to continue.

 

 

Again, a second window tells you to read the following terms of participation in Kaspersky Security Network. If you agree with all of these terms make sure to check the little box called "I accept the terms of participation in Kaspersky Security Network" and click on "Install" button.

 

 

The antivirus will start to install on your computer and it may take a minute or two depending on your computer performance ( it took approximately 2-3 minutes, I used a notebook ) so please be patient, in the meantime you will probably see a temporary window that says "Installation in progress".

 

 

Finally after the temporary installation window closes you will see a window that asks you to activate the application. Since we don't have a commercial licence yet, we want to test the application for a full 30 days trial before buying the antivirus. What we need to do is to choose the second radio button called "Activate trial licence" and then to click on the "Next" button.

 

 

You need to have an available Internet connection since the antivirus will connect to the licence server and ask for a 30 days trial licence. In a couple of seconds you should see a message that says : "Activation procedure completed - Key file is successfully installed". So you can test now this antivirus for 30 days. To continue choose "Next".

 

 

The installation is complete, however there is something that you need to do before scanning your computer or benefit from all features of this antivirus. In the following window make sure that the box "Start Kaspersky Anti-Virus" is checked and then click on "Finish" button.

 

 

When Kaspersky Antivirus will run for the first time, you will notice a "pop-up" window that displays a warning message: "Databases are obsolete" - "Update now". You may ignore this message as we are going to update the antivirus databases right away.

 

 

Here it is, Kaspersky Antivirus running for the first time on your PC. As you can see it is a large red bar that warns you: "Your computer security is at risk - Databases are obsolete" and you need to click on the "Fix it now" button or choose to go to "My Update Center" as this is going to the same place - to the place where you can update your antivirus database manually.

 

 

Now if you clicked on the "Fix it now" button or ( on "My Update Center" you will see a small link that says: "Start Update" click on "Start Update" ) the Update will start on your computer and it will end when you will see 100% completed. It may take a couple of seconds or minutes depending on how busy are the update servers and also how fast is your Internet connection so please be patient.

 

 

If you updated your antivirus you should notice that the large red bar has transformed in a dark-yellow color but this is normal since we use a 30 day trial licence so you may want to ignore that color. If we would have a licence that bar should be green. So, we have installed the antivirus, we have updated his antivirus database, now it's time to perform a full computer scan. To start a full scan click on the left panel on the second tab called "Scan My Computer" and you should see a group of tasks. You need to click on the first one called "Start Full Scan" and the antivirus is going to start scanning all your files and folders from your computer and it will take between a couple of minutes if you don't have anything on your PC to a couple of hours if your harddrive is large and you have a lot of files and folders.

 

 

It's time to select extended threat categories. Select the threat categories the program should scan for. By default you should see less threat categories selected, if you click on the "Default values" button it will modify them but I am recommending you to select all of them since it will increase your protection level, just check the "Select all" box. Again, press on the "Next" button to continue with our configuration.

 

 

If you never installed this antivirus before I guess this article is perfect for you. Now that you know how to install Kaspersky Antivirus on a computer running Windows please note that this is not a complex tutorial describing every feature and settings that should be applied to this antivirus but should be enought to cover a basic Kaspersky install. There are a lot of other things such as customizing this security tool for your own security settings like setting the threat level, the actions that the antivirus will take when it will found an infected file, the security mode that works best for your computer and there is more. We also created another article that will show you how to update Kaspersky Antivirus manually. We think that it's going to help you or someone who needs to update their antivirus databases if no Internet connection is available.