An optional US$29.99-a-year upgrade gains you unlimited data and a choice of exit nodes in 18 different countries. You’re also limited to routing your traffic through an Australian server, so you can’t use the VPN to access region-restricted sites. Your KIS licence entitles you to relay a maximum of 200MB of encrypted data per day: that should be plenty for all your sensitive transactions, but it isn’t enough to let you keep the VPN switched on all the time. It’s important to note, however, that Kaspersky’s service has some limitations.
The sites you visit won’t see the real origin of your connection either, which limits their ability to track you online. When the VPN is switched on, anyone trying to spy on your online activity won’t be able to tell which sites you’re connecting to, or what you’re doing there even your ISP will see only a string of encrypted data going back and forth between you and the VPN operator. This aims to protect your online privacy by encrypting all your internet traffic and routing it via a trusted third-party relay. The real headline is the new Secure Connection VPN service.
The handy new Software Updater module lets you know if you’re running any outdated programs that need updating, whether for features or security.
One is a new Software Cleaner function, tucked away under “More Tools”, which can find and remove potentially unwanted programs from your system as well as flagging up applications you’re simply not using, so you can ditch them and reclaim the disk space. There are a few new tricks to be found, though. The front-end is almost identical to the 2016 release: a few icons have been tinkered with and switched around, but the major features Safe Money secure browser and Kaspersky’s parental controls remain functionally unchanged. So far, so familiar, and in fact once you start clicking around the UI you may struggle to spot what’s new. That makes it more nimble than even Microsoft’s minimalist Security Essentials, which had an impact of 12% and 8% in the same tests. However, on Windows 7, KIS 2017 slowed web-page loading times by a modest 7%, and its impact on applications was a mere 5%. Inevitably, on-access scanning of websites and applications entails a certain overhead. Another traditional strength of Kaspersky has been its low impact on system performance.
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