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{{Infobox software
| name = K7 Total Security
| logo = [[File:K7-logo.png]]
| screenshot = 
| caption = K7 Total Security's [[Graphical User Interface]]
| developer = K7 Computing
(contracted; show full)008 Chennai, TN, 16 December 2008<ref>[http://www.ibtimes.com/prnews/20081216/k7-computing-avar.htm International Business Times, K7 Computing CTO Wins Best Member Award in AVAR 2008, retrieved August 1, 2011]</ref></cite> <cite>K7 Computing's Cloud Computing division built on windows platform, K7 Cloud Solutions was formed as a result of K7 Computing's acquisition of BinaryKarma, a Chennai, India based start-up working on products in the area of Virtualization Management.
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.k7cloud.com/about.html|title=K7Cloud - About Us|publisher=}}</ref></cite>

J. Kesavardhanan serves as its Founder and Chief Technology Officer.<ref>https://www.k7computing.com/in/about-us</ref>

==Products==
K7 Computing has been developing [[antivirus]] software for 20 years.

(contracted; show full)For Small Offices: 
* K7 Business Security

Enterprise Edition products: 
*K7 Enterprise Security  and K7 Enterprise Security Premium (with additional firewall), 
*K7 Mail Security for MS Exchange<ref>[http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/performance/performance_aug_2011.pdf PR DigitalMediaNet (PDF), October 2011]</ref>

For Cloud Products see  K7 Cloud Solutions.
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.k7cloud.com/index.html|title=K7Cloud - Platform-as-a-Service - Auto Scale -  Infrastructure-as-a-Service - Cloud Computing - Private  Clouds|publisher=}}</ref>

==Awards==
* K7 Total Security received Advanced+ Award from AV-Comparatives Performance test July 2011,<ref>[http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/performance/performance_aug_2011.pdf Performance Test July 2011 by AV-comparatives (PDF), retrieved October 27, 2011]</ref> overall winner for PC Mark performance test. K7 Antivirus Plus is an overall winner of AV-Comparatives Performance test November 2011<ref>[http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/performance/performance_nov_2011.pdf (PDF) AV-Comparatives Performance Test November 2011]</ref>
* K7 Total Security was awarded the winner of the Performance Test by AV-Comparatives for 2010<ref>[http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/performance/performance_dec_2010.pdf Performance Test by AV-comparatives, retrieved  August 8, 2011]</ref>
* VB-100,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://k7press.wordpress.com/2012/09/20/k7_total_security_secured_august_vb-100_award/|title=K7 Total Security secured August VB-100 award|work=K7 Computing Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/vendor?id=51|title=Virus Bulletin :: VB100|publisher=virusbtn.com}}</ref> August 2012 VB-100 award for K7 Total Security<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/test?id=169,|title=Virus Bulletin :: VB100|publisher=}virusbtn.com}</ref>
* Checkmark by WestCoast Labs<ref>[http://westcoastlabs.com/checkmark/productList/?vendorID=64 WestCoast Labs, Checkmark Certification & Platinum Product Awards, retrieved August 9, 2011]</ref>

==Windows Edition==

K7 Total Security, released 2002, was K7 Computing's first security suite for Windows PCs. The service at that time offered basic protection for Internet users such as Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware Tools, Anti-Spam and Basic Firewall.

==Reception==

===Performance===

In the field of performance, K7 is very low in resources. Their site reports that K7 Total Security 10 has the fastest virus-scanning engine to date.

K7 Total Security 10 won the best performing [[antivirus]] for 2010 by AV-Comparatives<ref>{{cite web | title=Performance Test | url = http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/performance/performance_dec_2010.pdf |date= | accessdate=2010-12-13 |format=PDF}}</ref> as well for 2011,<ref>[http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/performance/performance_nov_2011.pdf (PDF) AV-Comparatives performance test August 2011]</ref> and K7 Antivirus Plus won in November 2011.<ref>[http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/performance/performance_nov_2011.pdf (PDF) AV-Comparatives performance test Nov 2011]</ref> VB-100 award received in December 2011<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/vendor?id=51,|title=Virus Bulletin :: VB100|publisher=virusbtn.com}}</ref> and August 2012<ref>{{cite web|url=https://k7press.wordpress.com/2012/09/20/k7_total_security_secured_august_vb-100_award/|title=K7 Total Security secured August VB-100 award|work=K7 Computing Press}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.k7computing.com K7 Computing HQ Website]
* [http://www.k7computing.co.uk K7 Computing UK Website]
* [http://www.k7computing.ie K7 Computing Ireland Website]
* [http://www.k7.se K7 Computing Swedish Website]
* [http://k7-russia.ru K7 Computing Russia Website]

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