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How easy is this to use as an on demand scanner only. I prefer not to
run scanners all the time.

I've had little problem using most Antivirus this way, except for
Mcaffe which is a royal pain to invoke as on demand only.


I have heard Kaspersky is a reliable product and would like to use
this.
 
How easy is this to use as an on demand scanner only. I prefer not to
run scanners all the time.
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If you disable both of the included modules .... File and Email
scanning .... the realtime or background scanning functionality
is disabled. You can then use the product strictly as a on-demand
scanner.
I've had little problem using most Antivirus this way, except for
Mcaffe which is a royal pain to invoke as on demand only.


I have heard Kaspersky is a reliable product and would like to use
this.
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I've not yet found any reason to not recommend it. As has been
mentioned, do not leave the Taskbar option checked during the
installation, and read what you're agreeing to, especially in the
way of opening yourself up for more spam emails (if your ISP or
yourself aren't filtering them well).

Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
Art,

Thanks for the feedback on your experience with Active Virus Shield.
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Well, I hope it's helpful. I always get turned on by some new
possibility of a good antimalware product to recommend. In this
case, AVS is suitable (it seems so far) for both emergency use
and for regular use by those who can't or won't put out a few
bucks for a high quality full-featured product. I'm considering
putting up some info on it at my web site at some point in the
near future ... including "how to use it" kind of stuff. Not that
it's all that complicated, but new users, especially those in a
panic over some malware, really do need some hand holding
and some detailed instructions.

Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
I promised to post about any problems I run into with AVS. I just ran
into a real beaut. I had installed it on my wife's Win ME machine
where our wireless router and modem reside. No internet access,
yet my machine in a different room with the wireless adapter card
had access. I couldn't access the router via 198.168.1.1 from either
machine. Her system eventually put up a error message concerning
a conflict between the router address and a hardware number ...
and annnounced that something or other was now disabled. I
didn't have a clue about how to fix the problem, so I threw up my
hands and uninstalled AVS from her PC. Problem gone!!!

I looked at Kaspersky's version 6 specs and saw that indeed Win
98 and Win ME are included. I can't say if the incompatibility/bug
is OS or LinkSys related.

I'm not inclined to install Kaspersky version 6 on her machine just to
find out if that works and AVS doesn't... though I have to say the
question does make curious. You'd think if one doesn't work, neither
would work ... but you never know. So I can't say for sure that the
problem is just with AVS ... it might be a KAV v6 problem. Of course,
I've run v6 on my machine with no problems, just as I see no problems
on my machine (Win 2K Pro) using AVS.

Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
David H. Lipman a présenté l'énoncé suivant :
This was aksed about recently. I looked it up and yes... it uses a Kaspersky
engine.

However, you must agree to be spammed and get Pop-Up advertisments !

AO-Hell ! { LOL }
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No, and you may use a temporary Email adress to get the code.
 
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