September: India, Hong Kong, Middle East, Africa, Turkey and Latin America. The first wave will be the USA, Canada, and many of the Asia Pacific countries. The release schedule for the software is as follows: There's also the promise that there will be no advertising, or tracking of user behavior and activity. The software is built on the same technology as its paid-for predecessors, and the company promises that it is lighter on resources. This is not - of course - going to compete with Kaspersky's paid-for security tools, and it only covers the "bare essentials": email and web antivirus, automatic updates, self-defense, quarantine, and so on, as Kaspersky explains. There are a lot of users who don't have the ~$50 to spend on premium protection therefore, they install traditional freebies (which have more holes than Swiss cheese for malware to slip through) or they even rely on Windows Defender (ye gods!). Announcing the launch of Kaspersky Free, the company founder couldn't resist making a little dig at Microsoft: The launch coincides with Kaspersky Labs' 20th birthday, and the company says that the increased user-base that will almost certainly come about will help to increase security for everyone thanks to the information that can be gathered for machine learning.
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