If you are looking for safe and cost-effective alternatives to Kaspersky, we recommend the following programs and tools.
Secure Kaspersky alternatives with multi-device antivirus protection
On our best antivirus programs list, you’ll find the following recommendations: McAfee Total Protection, Bitdefender Internet Security as well as Avast Free Antivirus. With a paid premium version, several end devices can be safely protected against viruses, malware, Trojans, but free freeware can also close threatening security gaps in the operating system.
- In the test, the paid antivirus software McAfee Total Protection comes out on top in the ranking. McAfee Total Protection can be installed on up to five devices and is therefore a very good alternative to Kaspersky.
- Bitdefender Internet Security also ranks here and is recommended by our experts. It can also protect up to five of your own end devices against unauthorised access from the network.
- We also recommend Avast Free Antivirus as a Kaspersky alternative. The software detects most current threats and delivers few false positives.
- If you want to find out more about the advantages of the individual virus scanners, you can find all the virus scanner test reports from our test centre here at the click of a mouse.
This needs a Kaspersky alternative
The Russian sortware company Kaspersky and its products were classified as insecure by the Federal Office for Information Security – BSI for short – on 15.03.2022. You can read more about this in our article on the BSI warning. To protect your system securely, you need the following things:
- A good antivirus programme should be able to protect more than just one device and be easy and clear to manage.
- There are a number of alternatives that rely on cloud-based data analysis. Virus scanners for all owned devices are best, where data processing settings can be set by the user and not all collected data is shared internally or externally.
- Kaspersky alternatives should in any case contain an equally large database of currently known vulnerabilities and current threats, so that attacks from the depths of the Internet on one’s own device are reliably detected.
