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Steve Pope
Three of the low-end XP machines I manage have been running identical
configurations of Kaspersky AV 7 and Spybot S&D, with all realtime
protections turned on, without major issues. It has come time to
renew the three-machine Kaspersky license, so when I applied the
new activation code to the first machine I encountered the
following:
The new code would not activate Kaspersky 7, so I had to install
Kaspersky Antivirus 2010. The install itself went okay, however
when running a scan (with Spybot's resident protection turned off,
just for good measure) Kaspersky brought the machine to its knees,
with CPU usage pegged at 100% causing a major freeze requiring
serious measures including a Windows Restore, and deinstall/reinstall
of Kaspersky.
Since then, I set the Kaspersky "cede machine resources" bit, and it
has behaved a little better, but it is too soon to say it is a
stable machine.
Also, the user interface does not seem nearly as good as Kaspersky 7.
I have not found a way to open a "details" window when scanning.
One must scan, wait for it to complete, then open a report
to see if it found anything. The report lists found items,
but it does not say what the corrective action was (one assumes
it followed the rules under your settings, but for example the
report does not say whether it disinfected, or whether it deleted the
detected item. It would be nice to know.)
All of this seems quite a bit inferior to the previous product,
although perhaps there is a way to get the user interface to cough
up the information I am used to.
My questions are:
(1) Can you get a "details" window as in Kaspersky 7, that
tells you of detection and corrective action as it goes along?
(2) I'm told that Spybot S&D and Kaspersky together will in
particular drag down a machine. I'm told replacing Spybot S&D
with Malwarebytes will help significantly. Is this viable?
The other two machines I need to configure are less powerful
then the one I just worked on, so I'm pretty sure they will
die entirely if I proceed in the same manner as I did with
the first machine.
I like Kaspersky because it actually finds/blocks things, unlike
some other products I've tried like Microsoft Security Essentials,
but I'll have to say I would not have paid for the three-machine
renewal had I known I'd be forced to upgrade the product. (Guess
I should have read the fine print.)
Any advice? Thanks.
Steve
configurations of Kaspersky AV 7 and Spybot S&D, with all realtime
protections turned on, without major issues. It has come time to
renew the three-machine Kaspersky license, so when I applied the
new activation code to the first machine I encountered the
following:
The new code would not activate Kaspersky 7, so I had to install
Kaspersky Antivirus 2010. The install itself went okay, however
when running a scan (with Spybot's resident protection turned off,
just for good measure) Kaspersky brought the machine to its knees,
with CPU usage pegged at 100% causing a major freeze requiring
serious measures including a Windows Restore, and deinstall/reinstall
of Kaspersky.
Since then, I set the Kaspersky "cede machine resources" bit, and it
has behaved a little better, but it is too soon to say it is a
stable machine.
Also, the user interface does not seem nearly as good as Kaspersky 7.
I have not found a way to open a "details" window when scanning.
One must scan, wait for it to complete, then open a report
to see if it found anything. The report lists found items,
but it does not say what the corrective action was (one assumes
it followed the rules under your settings, but for example the
report does not say whether it disinfected, or whether it deleted the
detected item. It would be nice to know.)
All of this seems quite a bit inferior to the previous product,
although perhaps there is a way to get the user interface to cough
up the information I am used to.
My questions are:
(1) Can you get a "details" window as in Kaspersky 7, that
tells you of detection and corrective action as it goes along?
(2) I'm told that Spybot S&D and Kaspersky together will in
particular drag down a machine. I'm told replacing Spybot S&D
with Malwarebytes will help significantly. Is this viable?
The other two machines I need to configure are less powerful
then the one I just worked on, so I'm pretty sure they will
die entirely if I proceed in the same manner as I did with
the first machine.
I like Kaspersky because it actually finds/blocks things, unlike
some other products I've tried like Microsoft Security Essentials,
but I'll have to say I would not have paid for the three-machine
renewal had I known I'd be forced to upgrade the product. (Guess
I should have read the fine print.)
Any advice? Thanks.
Steve
