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HOT! Thanks, OP. I was about to buy a new license key for Kasperski. Beautiful. Worked with no issues, performing scan now. 🙂
 
Whenever I try to enter my key into AVS, it says "Error saving destination file" and will not continue. 🙁

Any ideas? I've tried disabling Kerio but it does nothing. Maybe I should kill Kerio and reinstall...
 
Originally posted by: John
Yes, firewalls can and do wreak havoc during the install.
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Strangely enough it wasn't the firewall... I exited all unnecessary programs, terminated all non-essential processes, and reinstalled... install went fine again, but activation would not work.

I had to restart in safe mode w/networking to resolve the issue.

For reference I run a nLite'd deployment of Windows XP Pro w/SP2 and RyanVM's update pack. Whatever the issue was I've got my Free Kaspersky working now - 0 detections 😉
 
It seems their key response is getting slower and slower. I requested keys to 4 different email addresses on the 28th and I'm still waiting to see any of them at all.
 
LsDPulsar

You have to re-request them. I tried as well to get a key on the 28th from 3 emails. never got any of those. I tried today and got it right away.


After trying this AV, I can't use it. it took my browser to it's knees. usually web pages are almost instant. it took it to 7-10 seconds. i'm using NOD32 now.
 
Originally posted by: cparent
After trying this AV, I can't use it. it took my browser to it's knees. usually web pages are almost instant. it took it to 7-10 seconds. i'm using NOD32 now.
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How odd because AOL AVS doesn't have any browser integration at all. 😕 I've installed AOL AVS on dozens of computers, including my own, and have never seen it slow the web browser one bit. However I applaud your efforts sticking with a quality AV since NOD32 is one of the best. :thumbsup:

 
john I owe you! i've been re-reading your elitekiller page for days now. 🙂

NOD32 found 1 virus on mine. kaspersky missed it. I'm running firefox if that makes any difference on the slowness with kaspersky/AOL. I uninstalled it and *poof* 7-10 second page loads went right back to 0-1 second loads. installed NOD32 and 0-1 second loads. hey at least it's working!


cheers
 
Originally posted by: cparent
john I owe you! i've been re-reading your elitekiller page for days now. 🙂

NOD32 found 1 virus on mine. kaspersky missed it. I'm running firefox if that makes any difference on the slowness with kaspersky/AOL. I uninstalled it and *poof* 7-10 second page loads went right back to 0-1 second loads. installed NOD32 and 0-1 second loads. hey at least it's working!


cheers
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odd you had that browser slowness with AVS... curious as to what on your PC caused AVS to create the slowness since many do not experience that (including me- I use AVS with both FF and IE in win2000 sp4). Perhaps an FF plugin AVS doesnt like?
 
Originally posted by: cparent
I've read that many other people get browser slowness with kaspersky as well. some to the point of time out
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I never found it slowed me down any. After I got through the installation trouble on Win2k, it worked fine. I just found it used more memory than Antivir and it's manual scan was a lot slower.

I went back to antivir as it just feels less intrusive(even with the update pop ups) and it's detection rates are right on par with AOL Kaspersky.

 
Originally posted by: cparent
LsDPulsar

You have to re-request them. I tried as well to get a key on the 28th from 3 emails. never got any of those. I tried today and got it right away.


After trying this AV, I can't use it. it took my browser to it's knees. usually web pages are almost instant. it took it to 7-10 seconds. i'm using NOD32 now.
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You didn't by chance install the "security toolbar" feature when using AVS, did you?
 
Haven't seemed to have a problem after installing.

I have several computers run NAV10 Corporate and decided when reinstalling on my laptop to install this AV instead.

So far, it seems pretty good. the hourly update is a little annoying..but other than that, so far it's pretty unobtrusive. And it's email scanning functions don't mess up my IMAP email accounts in Outlook at work like NAV10 did.

I'd give it a thumbs up, right now.

I'm still probably going to use AVG for all my friends/family's systems that I maintain, just because of ease of download/install. This waiting for a while to get serials and such is too time-consuming..
 
Anyone able to get this to work with Juniper VPN client installed (Network Connect 5.3, XP-pro SP2)? After installing AVS my internet connection didn't work (DNS resolution fails). Uninstalling Juniper VPN client fixed it, but that isn't a very good solution since I cannot VPN into work without the Juniper client. Haven't tried again in the past month.

Someone posted about this on the Kaspersky forums, but no response:

http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?showtopic=23466
 
Originally posted by: palehorse74
how does this stripped-down version of KAV6 compare with AVG 7.5?
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Better detection rates, and hourly updates so you're protected from fast-moving threats way sooner, instead of 18 hours too late. See the AOL Kaspersky FAQ thread for detection-rate listings.

Also, how does it compare against NOD32?
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Pretty well. See the above thread for a recent comparison.

 
Anyone have an extra key? Looks like it isn't sending them out right now.

edit: Nevermind, tried a few different email addresses and one of them got a key.
 
Antivir... there, it was that easy.

Kaspersky has a few more features (basically scanning of things like email or webcache, but the realtime protection in antivir does all this, if not specifically, but because it scans all files on access), but antivir is free for ever and detects just as good and is not near as bloated.
 
Originally posted by: nocturne
Antivir... there, it was that easy.

Kaspersky has a few more features (basically scanning of things like email or webcache, but the realtime protection in antivir does all this, if not specifically, but because it scans all files on access), but antivir is free for ever and detects just as good and is not near as bloated.
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Does Antivir automatically pull updates? The last version I tried several months ago only had manual updates for the free version.
 
Originally posted by: SunnyD

Does Antivir automatically pull updates? The last version I tried several months ago only had manual updates for the free version.
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Yes it does! Been using it for about 6 months now with no problems. The only thing is
that after it updates it opens a window with an advertisement for itself. No biggie.

 
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