Kaspersky better than Trend Micro pC?

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I suggest, rather than a online scan, download KASFX from my
web site. It uses the Kaspersky scan engine. KASFX will
automatically do a update, so make you're online when you
first run it. It will then open the av utility. At first, just let
the utility do its default scan of important areas. That will
go pretty quickly. Later on, you can elect to have it scan
and clean entire drives.
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Art,
I did as you suggested. Right now, as I type these words,
it has scanned 52, 924 files and is doing Trend and I am sure it will
take days, but I will let it run for a while. So far it has found:

11 viruses
It deleted one file
Renamed 5 files
and has encountered 13 errors, after having run (or is it "ran") for
one hour and 57 minutes.

Why does it rename files? Why not just delete them?

Thanks,
Jane
 
Art,
I did as you suggested. Right now, as I type these words,
it has scanned 52, 924 files and is doing Trend and I am sure it will
take days, but I will let it run for a while. So far it has found:

11 viruses
It deleted one file
Renamed 5 files
and has encountered 13 errors, after having run (or is it "ran") for
one hour and 57 minutes.

Why does it rename files? Why not just delete them?
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Frankly, I'm not sure of all the conditions when it does disinfection
and cleaning since I don't normally get involved with that .... just
prevention. I do know that some "fringe area" malware such as
adware and some dialers and "controversialware" will not be treated
as a Trojan, and will be renamed. It might also rename "suspicious"
files ... those it detects heuristically and thus isn't "sure about".
Deletion is normally restricted to know Trojan files. Viruses
(replicative code) will be disinfected, if possible, and the cleaned
file not deleted, of course. So mainly, only known Trojan files
will be deleted.

BTW, av should not be your only scanner. It's a good idea
to also use SpyBot and AdAware.

Anyway, scanning shouldn't be dragging on and on like that.
It sounds like malware is really bogging down your PC. Maybe
a occasional reboot would speed things up since that will
kill off the activity of malware that's been removed so far (but
not actually killed until a reboot).

Art


Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
Art,
I did as you suggested. Right now, as I type these words,
it has scanned 52, 924 files and is doing Trend and I am sure it will
take days, but I will let it run for a while. So far it has found:

11 viruses
It deleted one file
Renamed 5 files
and has encountered 13 errors, after having run (or is it "ran") for
one hour and 57 minutes.

Why does it rename files? Why not just delete them?
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Several hours after I posted the above, I checked and it had only went
through a few more files contained within one Trend update file and I
am sure it would take days to complete.

I am sure I am going to go with Kaspersky when I get paid next month.

One last question if I may. I have cable modem, wired, and was
thinking of getting a used wired router from Ebay. Would adding a
wired router between my cable connection and my computer afford me
more protection than not having one? With more protection, I mean in
conjunction with a software firewall.

Thanks so much for all you help.

Jane Hudson
 
One last question if I may. I have cable modem, wired, and was
thinking of getting a used wired router from Ebay. Would adding a
wired router between my cable connection and my computer afford me
more protection than not having one? With more protection, I mean in
conjunction with a software firewall.
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A NAT firewall/router will afford more protection since people
sometimes disable their software firewall for whatever reasons.
Nowdays it just takes minutes before you start taking hits. The
external "always there" firewall/router is also of great value when
you reinstall Windows and have to go online for the first time. Then
if you don't have the install file for a sw firewall handy, you're
in deep doodoo without the external "always there" fw/router.

You can use a sw firewall as well, since they will alert you to
unauthorized applications or programs trying to "call out",
where the route/fwr will not.

Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
Kaspersky is definitely not trying to scare you into buying their
product. KAV very rarely false alarms, so you should take the
report seriously. And yes, it would not be surprising at all that
KAV finds malware other av miss. That happens frequently.
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I ran Kaspersky's online scan and it reported 3 viruses infecting 7
objects not found by Symantec, McAfee, Sophos or Trend. I downloaded
the 30 day trial antivirus and ran it and guess what... nada reported
now by Kapersky so WTF?! Don't think I'll switch.
 
I ran Kaspersky's online scan and it reported 3 viruses infecting 7
objects not found by Symantec, McAfee, Sophos or Trend. I downloaded
the 30 day trial antivirus and ran it and guess what... nada reported
now by Kapersky so WTF?!
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That could happen in two ways that I can think of off hand. One is
that you didn't update the trial version. The other is that the trial
version doesn't default to using the so-called "extra defs" and the
"viruses" found by the online scanner were not viruses at all but
some stuff like adware or spyware or dialers, etc. only detected
using the extra defs.

Try the KASFX download from my web site. It uses the Kaspersky
engine and it installs the extra defs. See if it finds the same stuff
the online scanner does, since it should.

Art

http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
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