What is the advantage of the up-grade?
1 Protection against phishing has been improved.

2 Improved product activation. In Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012 product activation, license purchasing and migration is too easy.

3 Protection against unknown threats has been improved with the help of System Watcher.

4 Improved removal of incompatible applications during installation. Incompatible software detection is performed based on a list of incompatible applications.

5 Protection against unknown threats has been improved

6 Improved compatibility of Kaspersky URL Advisor from Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012 with web browsers. The following web borwsers are fully-compatible with Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012:

Internet Explorer version 6, 7, 8 and 9;
Mozilla FireFox version 3.x and 4.x;
Google Chrome version 7.x, 8.x, 9.x and 10.x.

7 File security detection. A function to define the file security before starting work with it has been added. For example, if you downloaded a file from the Internet and you doubt its security, check its reputation in Kaspersky Security Network.

8 Technologies of rootkit detection (rootkit is a program designed to hide the fact of system infection) have been significantly improved.

The impact of the application on the system performance has been optimized for the most common online user scenarios: watching movies (including high-resolution (HDTV)), listening to the radio, searching and browsing websites, making calls via VoIP (Skype and etc.), online games and etc.

9 The applications efficiency has been improved and its impact on the computers performance significantly reduced.
Intellectual system of updates downloading has been implemented. This system allows to download databases for the enabled application components, thus minimizing the volume of the downloaded updates and the time needed for download.

10 Touch-screen support is added.

11 The function to view tasks execution has been implemented within Task Manager. The function allows you to define how the system resources are consumed and review the status of executed tasks, thus optimizing computer resources.
Kaspersky Desktop Gadget has been significantly enhanced (for Windows Vista/7 only). The list of additional actions, whose response can be configured from the gadget, is increased. The added actions include update start, virtual keyboard, list of problems and etc.

12 The interface of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012 has been considerably re-designed:
The main application window now displays all necessary information on your computers protection status, the active defense components, the up-to-dateness of the anti-virus databases, and the license period.
Browsing of Kaspersky Lab news has become more convenient. The news provides information about events in the company, special auctions and discounts.
Statistics of Kaspersky Security Network activity is now available from the main application window. This feature allows to see how effective the "Cloud" technologies function and how secure your computer is protected.

See here------>http://support.kaspersky.com/kav2012/buy?qid=208284856

And here------>http://www.kaspersky.com/upgrade

Thanks, Zep! That's extremely thorough and completely helpful. I appreciate it.

:-)M

Kaspersky are generally considered amongst the top dogs in computer security. In your case they are offering something in the hopes of getting something - your renewal when it becomes due. Everybody wins in this scenario.

After reading this I am very happy I have it.