{"id":14940,"date":"2014-04-03T14:10:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T14:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kasperskydaily.com\/b2b\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2020-02-26T18:40:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T16:40:48","slug":"kaspersky-anti-virus-6-an-uphill-road-to-a-huge-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/kaspersky-anti-virus-6-an-uphill-road-to-a-huge-milestone\/14940\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6: an uphill road to a huge milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost any company that produces a product has something that is usually called \u2018a milestone product\u2019. For Kaspersky Lab this was Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0.<\/p>\n<p>Released back in 2006, it was a tremendous success that catapulted Kaspersky Lab to a global leader in the anti-malware market. It would be too bold to call Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 the best product in the world, but multiple magazines and independent tests <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/about\/news\/product\/2006\/Analytical_portal_ConsumerSearch_recognizes_Kaspersky_reg_Anti_Virus_6_0_as_8220_Best_antivirus_software_8221_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">did exactly that<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The road to the success was not, by any means, easy. Back in 2002, Kaspersky Lab released Anti-Virus 4.0 and found itself between a hammer and an anvil. At that time Microsoft has just released Windows XP; an average PC\u2019s CPU was barely packed with 1GHz of a processing punch. On the other hand, new threats ran rampant and had to be dealt with and the way Anti-Virus 4.0 did it took its toll on a PC\u2019s performance. It was then that \u2018Kaspersky is slow\u2019 became a common expression in the IT world.<\/p>\n<p>Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.0 proved to be such a failure that it was never released at all. Instead Kaspersky Lab started building a new product from scratch\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Read how things turned around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/the-rule-of-six\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost any company that produces a product has something that is usually called \u2018a milestone product\u2019. For Kaspersky Lab this was Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0. Released back in 2006, it was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":4333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1999,3021],"tags":[446],"class_list":{"0":"post-14940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-smb","9":"tag-kaspersky-antivirus"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"en-za","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/kaspersky-anti-virus-6-an-uphill-road-to-a-huge-milestone\/14940\/"},{"hreflang":"x-default","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/kaspersky-anti-virus-6-an-uphill-road-to-a-huge-milestone\/14940\/"},{"hreflang":"en-au","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/kaspersky-anti-virus-6-an-uphill-road-to-a-huge-milestone\/14940\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/tag\/kaspersky-antivirus\/","name":"kaspersky antivirus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26107,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14940\/revisions\/26107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}