At 03:59 PM 04/01/2012, Thane Sherrington wrote:
I've never been a fan of Kaspersky, based on the largely
unscientific observation that many computers that come in with it
install are also infected. I just had to install the POS on a
client's computer today, and I think I know why it's so
ineffective. The initial update will probably be well over 100MB in
size (I'm at 41% complete and it's 63.8MB). Any program that
requires updates of this size isn't going to get successfully
updated very often, I wouldn't think. Now part of this update is
engine updates, admittedly, but even a full download of Avira is
only 80MB, so I'm not sure what the heck Kaspersky is doing.
(I also think the founder likes to make wild-ass claims on twitter
and in interviews which makes me a bit leery of the product as well.)
Maybe I'm being unfair, but I thought I'd mention this in case
someone is considering it.
Update finished (well sort of) 106.3MB. No program updates. The
dashboard then tells you it's up to date, but the detail report tells
you that not all updates were downloaded. Another manual update
(5.6MB) and then a third (866 bytes but took 43 seconds to complete,
which seems odd). After all three it tells me that there were no
more updates needed. Not a great feeling from this software.
T
