Seems lame. Sent from my iPhone
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 >
