![]() ![]() The user can still skip the warning and access the content of the URL if desired. Once the reader detects that the code contains a URL, it checks against its database and warns us if that URL is potentially dangerous by displaying the screen below. If there’s one thing Kaspersky knows about, it’s security, and this is certainly where the main feature of its QR reader lies: detecting dangerous URLs or URLs with malicious content. Security of the Kaspersky QR Code Reader Against Malicious Websites and Phishing Don’t expect to find a lot of QR Droid style features, since as an app it’s basically just a reader. With this QR reader Kaspersky offers a tool that does just what it needs to do: scan QR Codes and barcodes. In the time it takes you to center the code on the screen, Kaspersky has already read it! □ Kaspersky Qr reader main screen ![]() What do I mean by “unintentionally”? Well, unlike many readers where it is necessary to focus the QR code or barcode in the middle of the reading grid, Kaspersky’s reader finds and detects the code within the image as a whole and reads it easily and quickly. In this post I’m bringing you a test of the Kaspersky QR Scanner, since I left this one out when I recently updated our list of recommended QR code scanners.Īmong the many QR readers I analyzed was Kaspersky QR Scanner, one of the apps developed by companies (mainly antivirus firms) that offer security solutions.Īlthough it was not included in the list, I found it an interesting reader because of its simplicity and because of a remarkable feature: it reads QR codes “unintentionally”. ![]()
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