Hello Thane, Like Zulfiqar said, it is lame. I've tested it in house a while back and it does not work as well as Microsoft Security Essentials and MSE is free.
I suggest scrapping that and either go the free route with MSE or get NIS 2012. Good luck, Tim Lider Sr. Data Recovery Specialist Advanced Data Solutions, LLC http://www.adv-data.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 12:09 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] Random thoughts on Kaspersky > > 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 > >
