Kaspersky antivirus review

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Roger Johansson

First I tried running the kavupd.exe in the installation I already had.
It was too old and could not find the right folder on the ftp site.
So I deleted all files in C:Downloads where the program resides.

I downloaded a new version of mwav.exe from Art Kopp's site
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg/

It says on that site that you need an unzip utility which can unpack
zipped exe files.

Another way to do it is to rename mwav.exe to mwav.zip and treat
it just like any zip file, if you already have what you need to handle
zip files.

Copy all the files to C:\Downloads
This folder name cannot be changed if the updater program shall work.
Run the kavupd.exe and it downloads the latest virus definition files.

Run the antivirus program itself, mwavscan.com

You can set up a special folder to scan besides the basic setup, for
example C:\Newprogs where you can put files you want scanned.
 
Roger said:
First I tried running the kavupd.exe in the installation I already
had. It was too old and could not find the right folder on the ftp
site.
So I deleted all files in C:Downloads where the program resides.

I downloaded a new version of mwav.exe from Art Kopp's site
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg/

It says on that site that you need an unzip utility which can unpack
zipped exe files.

Another way to do it is to rename mwav.exe to mwav.zip and treat
it just like any zip file, if you already have what you need to handle
zip files.

Copy all the files to C:\Downloads
This folder name cannot be changed if the updater program shall work.
Run the kavupd.exe and it downloads the latest virus definition files.

Run the antivirus program itself, mwavscan.com

You can set up a special folder to scan besides the basic setup, for
example C:\Newprogs where you can put files you want scanned.
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I'm confused here. Is Kaspersky now freeware?
 
I'm confused here. Is Kaspersky now freeware?
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No. The Escan AV Toolkit Utility is freeware (actually nagware at
Exit). It uses the KAV scan engine. It has a Windows GUI but it offers
no realtime monitor component. It's a on-demand scanner/cleaner
utility.

I updated my web site recently, and now the last free version of Power
Archiver is made available for download. It can serve to extract the
files from MWAV.EXE.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
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