Kaspersky Anti-virus

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I use Kaspersky and I am very happy with it. I tried the top three free ones,
AVG, Avira, and Avast. I like the AVG the least. It gave me a lot of false
virus reports.

The other two are good but all the free ones have one or two things you
cannot do unless you upgrade like automatic scan or automatic update. I
prefer a set and forget system. Here is my security and backup setup.
Everything is automatic (set & forget!)

*Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 (quick scan every day and full scan once a week
and the full array of protection turned on),
* Vista Firewall,
* Malewarbytes set on automatic daily (Paid version),
* Windows Defender set on automatic daily (Free),
* CCleaner set to run automatically every week (Free),
* PerfectDisk (defrag) set to run when screen saver is active and once a
month,
* Acronis True Image set to do incremental backup nightly.

Randy Miller (Just a IT hobbyist)
 
You get what you pay for. If they are free, what is to stop the creators from
reducing the creativity of their programs?
 
roraniel said:
I use Kaspersky and I am very happy with it. I tried the top three free
ones,
AVG, Avira, and Avast. I like the AVG the least. It gave me a lot of false
virus reports.

The other two are good but all the free ones have one or two things you
cannot do unless you upgrade like automatic scan or automatic update. I
prefer a set and forget system. Here is my security and backup setup.
Everything is automatic (set & forget!)

*Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 (quick scan every day and full scan once a week
and the full array of protection turned on),
* Vista Firewall,
* Malewarbytes set on automatic daily (Paid version),
* Windows Defender set on automatic daily (Free),
* CCleaner set to run automatically every week (Free),
* PerfectDisk (defrag) set to run when screen saver is active and once a
month,
* Acronis True Image set to do incremental backup nightly.

Randy Miller (Just a IT hobbyist)
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Avast, Avira, and AVG can all be scheduled to run a scan, and all of them
update automatically. They all have other settings which can be altered
too..

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roraniel said:
I use Kaspersky and I am very happy with it. I tried the top three free
ones,
AVG, Avira, and Avast. I like the AVG the least. It gave me a lot of false
virus reports.
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What about BitDefender? Seems like a good price and most comparisons
rate it at or about AVG.
 
Tonyo UK said:
You get what you pay for. If they are free, what is to stop the creators
from
reducing the creativity of their programs?
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Rephrase that.. free or not..

"what is to stop the creators from
reducing the creativity of their programs?
"

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I think Avast and Avira free versions can only do on demand scanning. I did
find an article on using scheduled task to schedule quick scans in Avast but
no deep scans.

I only meant to suggest that in general free versions are lacking features
that a paid upgrade includes.
 
roraniel said:
I think Avast and Avira free versions can only do on demand scanning. I did
find an article on using scheduled task to schedule quick scans in Avast
but
no deep scans.

I only meant to suggest that in general free versions are lacking features
that a paid upgrade includes.
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They do lack features, but I would wager that most just install and accept
whatever the default is.. :-)


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You get what you pay for.
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I don't agree at all. If that were literally true, than Norton
anti-virus, which you have to pay for, would be better than Avast and
Avira, both of which are free.

But Norton, in my view, is the worst of the anti-virus programs, and
Avast and Avira and among the best one ones available.
 
I like Avast, Avira or AVG for the free programs.
I also use clamwin on some of our corporate systems.
If you feel you MUST pay for AV, NOD32 seems to be a good choice.
 
I tried Avira (free) but pesky advertisements to purchase would always
popup
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after bootup. For most this is probably just a minor inconvience but for me
agravating and I saw Kapersky advertised for $29 at Best Buy. Otherwise yes
it was too expensive.

Thanks!
 
Rodnod said:
after bootup. For most this is probably just a minor inconvience but for me
agravating and I saw Kapersky advertised for $29 at Best Buy. Otherwise yes
it was too expensive.

Thanks!
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Avast doesn't do that and it's free and quite good.

Alias
 
Rodnod said:
after bootup. For most this is probably just a minor inconvience but for
me
agravating and I saw Kapersky advertised for $29 at Best Buy. Otherwise
yes
it was too expensive.

Thanks!
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Type 'Avira nag screen' into a Google search box for how to remove it..


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Rodnod said:
Would like to know if Kaspersky anti-virus is a good choice?
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Yes, Kaspersky Antivirus is a good antivirus product. In fact, by all
estimations, it is the world's best antivirus product. Slower than most,
however, though Kaspersky
Antivirus 2009 seems to run slick as snot on a wet doorknob.

I highly recommend it to anyone surfing in dangerous waters.

Donald McDaniel
 
Rodnod said:
after bootup. For most this is probably just a minor inconvience but for
me
agravating and I saw Kapersky advertised for $29 at Best Buy. Otherwise
yes
it was too expensive.

Thanks!
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What would Forrest Gump say?
"Expensive is as expensive does".
I say an antivirus product is just as expensive as your disk structure. One
can never pay too much for disk security.

What's with the anti-capitalist streak here in this newsgroup? What are you
boys? A bunch of communists?

How would you boys like to see the Russian programmers? Capitalists, or
Commies, Friends, or Foes.
Let's support 'em in their revolution... Why, I don't know, but Russians
make for good security geeks, and they give good prog.
I support Kaspersky with my American dollars, gratefully. As a result, I
don't fear the former Soviet Union and its plethora of mathematical
genuises.


Donald L McDaniel
 
Donald said:
What's with the anti-capitalist streak here in this newsgroup? What are
you boys? A bunch of communists?
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Ever hear of the story about a place called Wall Street and the banks
who received almost a trillion dollars from the tax payers that is known
about and they refuse to tell the tax payers what they're doing with the
money? George W. Bush has proved that unfettered capitalism is not a
good thing except, of course, for those who punked us.

Alias
 
Donald said:
Yes, Kaspersky Antivirus is a good antivirus product. In fact, by all
estimations, it is the world's best antivirus product. Slower than
most, however, though Kaspersky
Antivirus 2009 seems to run slick as snot on a wet doorknob.

I highly recommend it to anyone surfing in dangerous waters.

Donald McDaniel
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If you surf in "dangerous" waters, you're better off with Linux than
Windows with *any* anti virus. It's common knowledge that anti virus
programs, even the "best", can only detect known viruses, not new ones.

If you plan to surf in really dangerous waters, use a Linux live CD to surf.

Alias
 
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