Seems lame.

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On Jan 4, 2012, at 11:10 PM, Thane Sherrington
<[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>

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