At this point, I would share "YMMV." Then, I would move on.
I accept Kaspersky wishes to protect me.
But, it then dictates how I live my life. I understand its' suggestions.
I do not care for their logic.
Best,
Duncan
On 01/04/2012 15:09, Thane Sherrington 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
