Microsoft’s Office 2007 and 2010 have attracted praise for their “ribbon” interface, but not everyone gets along with the new design. If that’s you, Kingsoft Office 2010 could be the answer: it includes all the features you’d expect within a traditional interface.

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Kingsoft Office offers the most popular features of Microsoft Office and, with the one-year license included on this month’s disc, you’ll have plenty of time to evaluate it. You’ll find a word processor, a spreadsheet and a presentation designer, each with a familiar interface so that you won’t need to waste any time learning new applications. Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 Open XML formats (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx) are supported, too. Kingsoft also has many distinctive features; a Google toolbar, for instance, allows you to search the web from your word processor. Its lightweight nature also makes it an ideal choice for netbooks.

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Kingsoft Internet Security 9 Plus was recently reviewed by CNET and has earned 4 out of 5 stars. The massive amount of program options and security services provided by the product was the highlight of the review.

Below is an excerpt from the review:

The program includes tons of functions and options, but its interface is easy to understand and navigate, with a professional layout and an intuitive command structure. If there’s a criticism that can be leveled, it’s that the program actually offers too many quality options, which can be overwhelming to some users.

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With the year 2009 behind us, AV-Comparatives has released their Summary Report for 2009. Kingsoft Internet Security 9 Plus has been awarded two medals: GOLD for Best Scanning Speed, and SILVER for Best Overall Speed.

Here is an excerpt from the Summary Report:

Kingsoft should be considered a reputable company just for this, as they know that there are no borders in the Internet, and Anti-Virus software should detect all malware, regardless of its origin. [..] Kingsoft is the fastest scanner according to our tests. The user interface is kept very simple and easy to use.

You can read a more general overview from this PCMag.com article.

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AV-Comparatives has completed testing of Kingsoft Internet Security 9 Plus for their Performance Test in December 2009. The focus of this test was on the system performance impact of the real-time on-access components of the security software. The complete results can be found here.

The test was performed on a clean Windows XP Professional SP3 system with defragmented disks. They repeated each test several times and averaged the results. In several cases they ran the test and then ran the same test again, to handle programs that learn and therefore run more quickly after the first time.

Here are the performance results opening files:

Here are the certification star ratings:

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AV-Compariative has completed testing of Kingsoft Internet Security 9 Plus for their Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUA) Test in November 2009. The focus of this test was on the detection of grey area malware. The complete results can be found here.

The first PUA test contained 750,297 individual samples that cover adware, spyware, and rogue software gathered between January 2009 and October 2009. Not all security products include detection for this grey area malware. Sixteen products were tested and set on the highest detection settings (except for Sophos and F-Secure, per their own request), and put to the test.

Here is the chart of missed samples in percentage points from the test:

Here is an excerpt from the original article:

The results seem to suggest that the best antivirus applications that regularly rank highly in general malware tests are not necessarily as good at anti-adware, antispyware, and antirogue detection. That said, all 16 products detected at least 85 percent of the threats, which is respectable. Overall, we can say that the detection rate of PUAs is similar to the detection rate of general malware.

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AV-Comparatives has completed testing of Kingsoft Internet Security for their Retrospective/Proactive Test in November 2009. The focus of this test was on the proactive detection capabilities of the products. The complete results can be found here.

AV-Comparatives used two sets of malware: Set A, which contains malware signatures found from December 2007 to December 2008 (of which most products could detect over 97 percent), and Set B, which contains malware from the last seven months (1.6 million samples). The set included the following categories of malware: Trojans (69.5 percent), Backdoors/Bots (20.7 percent), Worms (6.1 percent), other malware (1.5 percent), and Windows viruses (0.4 percent).

Below is the results from the November 2009 test:

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Print2PDF 8.0 was recently reviewed by CNET. The utility was praised for the amount of the PDF conversion features it provides.

Below is an excerpt from the review:

In our tests, the output quality and conversion speed both proved quite satisfactory. If you’re looking to convert documents into the PDF format, this tool will likely have all the options you need.

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AV-Compariative has completed testing of Kingsoft Internet Security 9 for their Malware Removal Test in October 2009. The focus of this test was on the malware removal capabilities of the product on an already infected computer. The complete results can be found here.

This test was performed on Windows XP Professional SP3 32-bit with all updates as of September 2009.

Below is the results from Kingsoft Internet Security:

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Kingsoft Office 2009 was recently reviewed by CNET. Familiarity with Microsoft Office was the biggest asset that provided instant usability.

Below is an excerpt from the review:

Kingsoft Office 2009 provides an excellent facsimile of Microsoft Office’s three biggest programs. With a pitch-perfect look and functionality, we were highly swayed by this program. Since we had a familiarity with Microsoft Office, we jumped right into this program’s word processing, PowerPoint presentation, and spreadsheet making capabilities…Since everything worked so well, we found this program to basically be a much less expensive version of Microsoft’s tools.

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PC Security Labs has completed the Total Protection Testing Report number 4. Of the 23 vendors tested, Kingsoft Internet Security was awarded standard certification. The results of the test can be found here.

Kingsoft’s false positive rate was tied for first, see below:

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PC Security Labs has completed the Total Protection Testing Report number 4. Of the 18 vendors tested, Kingsoft Internet Security 9 scored a total detection rate of 89.06%.

The complete results of the PCSL May 2009 test can be found here.

Kingsoft Internet Security 9 results:

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Kingsoft Internet Security 9 has received yet another prestigious VB100 award from the authoritative British magazine Virus Bulletin.

Virus Bulletin tested 22 products from different vendors, examining their ability to detect 100% of the in-the-wild viruses without false alarms, this time on Windows Server 2003 x64 Enterprise Edition.

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Kingsoft Internet Security 2009 has received yet another prestigious VB100 award from the authoritative British magazine Virus Bulletin.

In a comparison test conducted on the Windows XP Service Pack 3 platform by Virus Bulletin in the April issue, Kingsoft Internet Security 2009 achieved one of the best results for malware detection among 39 other popular antivirus products.

You can read the details from Virus Bulletin here.

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PC Security Labs has completed the Total Protection Testing Report number 3. Of the 14 vendors tested, Kingsoft Internet Security 2009 was awarded standard certification. The results of the test can be found here.

Here are the results from the 14 vendors in the test:

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The productivity suite market is generally dominated by two main options: you either use the proprietary Microsoft Office suite or its open source alternative, Open Office. But if you don’t like either of them, I’m glad to inform you there’s a third choice.

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Kingsoft Office is clearly offered as an antidote the perceived over-complexity of the latest Microsoft Office release. It focuses on the core components of word processor, spreadsheet and presentation graphics. The look and feel is uncannily like Office 2003, and this is offered as an advantage to business who could switch to Kingsoft Office without any need for re-training.

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