Re: Kaspersky Anti-virus
- From: "Hugh Jeego" <id@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 23:54:14 +1100
"Apache -=CW=-" <Apache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23RxH6a1ZJHA.6036@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Kaspersky is the best although it can be cumbersome. But if you want to protect your system totally it's the best choice.
It uses very little resources and keeps good track of what is going on. Not 100% but very close.
Kaspersky IS the best. It actually picks up more nasty stuff than does any other AV program and to be honest, have their finger on the pulse more than anyone else.
Those freebie antivirus programs? I've tested a few of them and was not impressed with them. Avast
gave me a lot of false warnings, and actually interfered with Internet Explorer to the point where I couldn't
view certain web sites, such as MSN, and was a pain to remove and repair the changes it made to my system .
Avast has never interfered once with any testing on machines.
CA Antivirus was also a freebie provided by Roadrunner, but it too interfered with my mail program, and corrupted
it to the point where all of my saved email was lost. Thank goodness I had backed it up so I only lost a few weeks worth of
email.
I have found, on many occasions, CA to be a real pain in the backside to completely remove. You run the uninstall and it still leaves registry items affecting the firewall in it. You think CA is gone but you get no internet. It takes something like JV16 to have on hand and use to find every last remnant of CA and manually pick them out of registry in order to get a working machine on internet again. I wouldnt recommend nor use CA for anything - not even toilet paper!
And finally Norton, I used to be a big fan of Symantec but not any more. What's the point of having a malware program
that does the same if not more damage than the malware programs it is supposedly designed to protect against.
I never used Nortons AV personally but on many tests have had it consistently fail. Many years back, Nortons also bought a GREAT firewall program call Atguard and made it their own firewall program and then stuffed it up. The also bought a great backup program, Drive Image and made it theirs and stuffed that up. I actually thought Ghost 9, being a recent convert from Drive Image to Nortons, would be OK but it stuffed up badly whereas the last official Drive Image release worked fine. I had bought their disk editor program and used it. In every single case using Nortons programs there was some form of stuffup so I gave up and removed all Nortons products entirely and bought Acronis True Image and also theri Disk Director. While Disk Director isnt fabulous (eg, if you have an image backup from a drive that had disk errors on it and then install that image to another drive, Disk Director keeps seeing disk errors where there are NONE and wont, for example, expand the data to fill the disk if the disk being written to is larger than where the data came from. You can get around that by usign Vista's own disk tools but Disk Director should be capable of working with it. Just doesnt.) it works better than their disk editing software does.
It has been some time since I bothered using a Nortons product at all but I am constantly fixing machines that have them on them and I can tell you, they are not worth it - ANY Nortons product!
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