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Kaspersky

arcenite

arcenite

Lifer
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That is all.

I've been a long time user of Symantec products and after reading just another thread on Kaspersky's greatness, I decided to give it a shot.

I will never go back.

Update: 2006 Owns, and it's free until 1/2006. Get it on BT!

Bill
 
Originally posted by: StevenYoo
how's the memory footprint?
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Well i'm doing a virus scan now and it's at 44 mb. I am not sure what it is at idle. It really doesn't matter though, I have 2 gigs on tap.
 
Idle is around 20k and only TWO processes that are hardly ever in use.

I HATE NORTONS

I just switched over this week to kaspersky and nod32. Seeing which I like best.
 
I have also had no issues. I switched from Norton AV 05 and Kaspersky is faster, has a much smaller memory footprint, and I actually noticed a decrease in CPU usage during virus scanning. The only problem I have is that much like Firefox, there is no internal update system.
 
Originally posted by: deathkoba
I find Kaspersky to be a royal CPU hog even on pretty high end boxes. On a P3 it totally renders the machine useless.
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Something is wrong with your setup or the install went bad. KAV 5 runs fine on my P3 1 gig and 512 megs of ram.

 
I have a questions about the KAV5 Internet Security Suite. Basically its KAV, K-anti hacker and Kanti-spam.

I purchased the suite, but I also use Kerio as my firewall. Is this redundant? Is "Anti-Hacker" a firewall? and if so should I use that or Kerio?

TIA to all you experts once again!
OM

BTW I run KAV5 on my P3 laptop with only 512k RAM and they system runs just fine.
 
Originally posted by: arcenite
:thumbsup:

That is all.

I've been a long time user of Symantec products and after reading just another thread on Kaspersky's greatness, I decided to give it a shot.

I will never go back.

Bill
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I was the exact same way. I love Kaspersky now! 😀
 
Originally posted by: deathkoba
I find Kaspersky to be a royal CPU hog even on pretty high end boxes. On a P3 it totally renders the machine useless.
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It's only a CPU hog when you are doing a scan, which you obviously shouldn't be doing when you're gaming or encoding or whatever anyways. DO NOT buy Kaspersky though, because if it gets hugely popular people will start writing viruses to exploit like they have done with Norton & McAfee...lol
 
Originally posted by: OatMan
I have a questions about the KAV5 Internet Security Suite. Basically its KAV, K-anti hacker and Kanti-spam.

I purchased the suite, but I also use Kerio as my firewall. Is this redundant? Is "Anti-Hacker" a firewall? and if so should I use that or Kerio?

TIA to all you experts once again!
OM

BTW I run KAV5 on my P3 laptop with only 512k RAM and they system runs just fine.
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Anti-Hacker IS a firewall, you should not double up both of those. I use the Kaspersky AH, but I think most people in the know would say Kerio is better.
 
Originally posted by: OatMan
I have a questions about the KAV5 Internet Security Suite. Basically its KAV, K-anti hacker and Kanti-spam.

I purchased the suite, but I also use Kerio as my firewall. Is this redundant? Is "Anti-Hacker" a firewall? and if so should I use that or Kerio?

TIA to all you experts once again!
OM

BTW I run KAV5 on my P3 laptop with only 512k RAM and they system runs just fine.
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512K? Bill Gates says 640K Ram is enough for anyone... 😛
 
I use Kaspersky and can give it 9 ot of 10 but I always shut it down when I play online games as it does seem to lag up some games I play.
 
Originally posted by: Pr0d1gy
Originally posted by: OatMan
I have a questions about the KAV5 Internet Security Suite. Basically its KAV, K-anti hacker and Kanti-spam.

I purchased the suite, but I also use Kerio as my firewall. Is this redundant? Is "Anti-Hacker" a firewall? and if so should I use that or Kerio?

TIA to all you experts once again!
OM

BTW I run KAV5 on my P3 laptop with only 512k RAM and they system runs just fine.
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Anti-Hacker IS a firewall, you should not double up both of those. I use the Kaspersky AH, but I think most people in the know would say Kerio is better.
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i agree that Kerio is a better FW then AH, i tried it but kerio, even when its running in the free version mode is just awsome, i run Kav AV a=on my comps, adn they all run it fine, have a cele 833 that runs it fine also

only issue i have with Kerio is that it and azureus have issues, Kerio doesnt like it when azureus makes like 400 or so connections when running torrents, sometimes it just freaks out
 
Well last year I tried Kaspersky AV/Firewall, at the recommendation of some folks over on IRC hyping about it. Big mistake. Let me tell u this product is VERY annoying, and seems overall just an all-around inferior product. Sure it's got a nice interface, is easy to configure, and very light on resources, BUT it doesn't handle attacks as efficently and as unobtrusively as say for instance Norton does. For example, when properly configured, Norton is able to handle port scan attacks with little to no user or system interruption, it takes care of it quietly behind the scenes. But with Kaspersky, any little detected UDP Port Scan (and other attacks) no matter how insignificant will trigger the firewall to pop up a big annoying alert and then BLOCK ALL YOUR INTERNET ACTIVITY for a few minutes as some kind of safegaurd to prevent multiple successive intrusions. And if you configure it to block only the attack and NOT block out your internet, then you just might end up suffering through multiple attacks and have to endure numerous pop-up alerts.

There's also a pop-up alert you may end up getting constantly telling you you've been hit with a Helkern attack (or something like that). This is so f*cking annoying. And what's also annoying is the AV virus detection alert makes this horrendously awful screeching sound. LOL 🙂

So yeah Kaspersky's just an annoying nightmare. Recommend looking elsewhere for your AV/Firewall solution.
 
There's also a pop-up alert you may end up getting constantly telling you you've been hit with a Helkern attack (or something like that).
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That is configurable, as you can see in this pic: Kaspersky network-attack notification options.
And what's also annoying is the AV virus detection alert makes this horrendously awful screeching sound.
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That is configurable too. 🙂

Also, I have four Kaspersky installations (mine, two sisters, and mom & dad) and have never seen it "BLOCK ALL YOUR INTERNET ACTIVITY" under any circumstance, not even when attacks have been detected. PEBKAC maybe?
 
Originally posted by: Ike0069
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Originally posted by: arcenite
😕 I have it running on a Celeron without having any problems
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Originally posted by: arcenite
I have 2 gigs on tap.
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You have 2gb of ram on a celeron?😕
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I'm guessing he has it running on more than one PC. (At least I hope he does)
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Haha yes, the 2gb is not in the Celeron machine 🙂

Edit: mech, I have seen it cause problems with the internet. For me, if I install any other firewall (other than SP2, no problems with that firewall), if Kaspersky's network protection is on, it will not let me access the internet at all after rebooting after installation of said firewall. Fix is to disable network protection.
 
Thanks, that's a good tip 😎 So you haven't seen it arbitrarily block all internet activity simply because of a detected attack, though? If the attacking computer happened to be the ISP's DNS server or gateway, then I could see that as the logical result... 😕
 
Originally posted by: mechBgon
Thanks, that's a good tip 😎 So you haven't seen it arbitrarily block all internet activity simply because of a detected attack, though? If the attacking computer happened to be the ISP's DNS server or gateway, then I could see that as the logical result... 😕
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that happened to me when i weas testing it, said it detected a DDOS from 4.2.2.6 whihs is verizons DNS server. and it shut down my connection
 
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