Kaspersky Antivirus Online scanner

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From: "Ian JP Kenefick" <[email protected]>

| Kaspersky Launched their BETA online web scanner today. The URL is....
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| http://www.kaspersky.com/service?chapter=161739400#betatest
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| P.S. It's IE only as it requires ActivX
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| Regards,
| Ian Kenefick
| http://antivirus.ik-cs.com

I gave it a test using some known baddies and it did 100% and it gave the option to delete
the individual files or delete all infected files. It worked well. Too bad it is dependent
upon IE. However, most online scanners do ayway.
 
From: "Ian JP Kenefick" <[email protected]>

| Kaspersky Launched their BETA online web scanner today. The URL is....
|
| http://www.kaspersky.com/service?chapter=161739400#betatest
|
| P.S. It's IE only as it requires ActivX
| --
|
| Regards,
| Ian Kenefick
| http://antivirus.ik-cs.com

I gave it a test using some known baddies and it did 100% and it gave the option to delete
the individual files or delete all infected files. It worked well. Too bad it is dependent
upon IE. However, most online scanners do ayway.
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Yeah the price we pay for hacktivex functionality is hacktivex
vulnerability.
 
As is always the way, when FireFox came out with all its hype about No
Active X spyware, I just turned to a friend and said 'Oh... so it can't do
much then...'. With increased code comes increased risk.
 
Took 3+ hours to scan my computer for viruses (14 gigs in files). Gave a
false positive on one of Panda Software's Active scan .dll files.
Otherwise, not too bad.
 
The scanner is extremely slow for me. After 8 hours it is only 72% done
scanning my harddrive with 45 gigabytes of files. Norton AntiVirus 2005
scans *all* the files in 25 minutes when scanning all file types and inside
compressed files.

Am I doing something wrong or is Kaspersky's Online Scanner just awfully
slow?
 
From: "Zephyr" <[email protected]>

| The scanner is extremely slow for me. After 8 hours it is only 72% done
| scanning my harddrive with 45 gigabytes of files. Norton AntiVirus 2005
| scans *all* the files in 25 minutes when scanning all file types and inside
| compressed files.
|
| Am I doing something wrong or is Kaspersky's Online Scanner just awfully
| slow?


It is very slow and you have much data.

What is the CPU and speed ?
 
It's an AMD Athlon XP 2400+. I'm using Windows XP with 512 mb RAM.

All other online scanners I have tried complete the scan in about 30 minutes
to 1½ hours depending on which scanner.
 
Took 3+ hours to scan my computer for viruses (14 gigs in files). Gave a
false positive on one of Panda Software's Active scan .dll files.
Otherwise, not too bad.
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Panda do not encrypt their virus definitions. This is most probably
the cause here.
 
From: "Zephyr" <[email protected]>

| It's an AMD Athlon XP 2400+. I'm using Windows XP with 512 mb RAM.
|
| All other online scanners I have tried complete the scan in about 30 minutes
| to 1½ hours depending on which scanner.
|

It is possible that Kasperski is more aggressive and is scanning MIME and archive file and
all files type rather than a list of specific file types.
 
It is possible that Kasperski is more aggressive and is scanning MIME and archive file and
all files type rather than a list of specific file types.
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Definately - extra scanning would effect the throughput of the engine.
 
Kaspersky scanning is much more thorough than many others, especially Sophos, which seems to be missing quite a bit !
I'd rather suffer the extra time to scan and know that the job is being done properly !
 
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