Kaspersky Internet Security 2009

Kaspersky Internet Security (KIS) 2009 was installed on two Dells both running Vista and initially both set up connected via Ethernet cabled to Linksys ADSL / Wireless- Router. the rest of local LAN was an XP and Vista machine. The default settings were used and all worked well each machine could see shares and other machines etc. After set up one machine wa moved to another room and connected via 802.11G Linksys wireless USB connector and Vista to the secured local network.

Internet access via wireless connection and ADSL Router was OK. However it was impossible to get it to see the other computers on the local LAN. All the Vista settings and security sharing were checeked. Eventually by disabling KIS firewall the problem was traced to KIS firewall on the wireless connected machine.

By default either for wireless networks in general or because it had initially been set up as wired and then made a wireless connection, the wireless connection was classed as "public" network and tight security applied to it. This had to be changed deep in the settings from Public to Local. TO do this use KIS 2009>System Security>Firewall>Settings>Network and then edit the relevant network listed.

Changing the wireless connection from public to local in KIS 2009 then meant that all the machines could see each other. It would have been much more helpful if when KIS detected a new network that it gave you the option to decide if this was local or public or at least made it more obvious.