Kaspersky AV 6.0

daveydave · 10 Nov 2006 at 12:48

Was wondering if anyone uses this and what their experience with it is. Just installed it as my replacement for Norton

CF93 · 10 Nov 2006 at 12:52

About to do the same, so also interested in this!

VaderDSL · 10 Nov 2006 at 12:53

yup I used KAV 6 and love it, ok if yuo set all its features to paranopid it can make life a bit difficult with the amount of times it will warn you about syastem changes etc.

However set on default/low it is brilliant imo

Five_Star · 10 Nov 2006 at 13:05

Its very good

as VaderDSL said you can set it to watch the regisrty for changes and unusual system processes or just leave it alone and it works very well with great detection rates.

Its also fine for older machines in v6.0 as you can limit the amount of CPU power it can use.

bikes · 10 Nov 2006 at 13:09

I've just bought this and the only fault I can find with it is that even though its setup to check for updates every hour, when it does update the signatures seem hours old. Plus sometimes if I do it manually it will update, when it should have already updated automatically :confused:

daveydave · 10 Nov 2006 at 13:31

so now just to get rid of norton......tbc

JayMax · 10 Nov 2006 at 18:35

david.n.c said:
so now just to get rid of norton......tbc

Good luck

Use Nortons own removal tool from their site.
It says something when they have to release a special prog just to uninstall they're own *ahem* handywork

kitfit1 · 10 Nov 2006 at 18:45

Using KAV6 here as well. In fact i had 5 for a year before 6 was released. It does what it says on the tin, with little effect on the system. Also in my experience it is top notch at warning of dodgy web pages, which in this day and age is a must.

ringo747 · 10 Nov 2006 at 18:56

kitfit1 said:
Using KAV6 here as well. In fact i had 5 for a year before 6 was released. It does what it says on the tin, with little effect on the system. Also in my experience it is top notch at warning of dodgy web pages, which in this day and age is a must.

exactly right! got this package month or two ago. had zone alarm before this. This is definitely the best I have ever used.

daveydave · 10 Nov 2006 at 20:28

well 3 hours later go back and the rest of the norton motley crew are off my system.....and its like its got a spring in its step...it seems almost lighter lol

very very happy, wont be using norton again

Simps · 10 Nov 2006 at 20:48

david.n.c said:
well 3 hours later go back and the rest of the norton motley crew are off my system.....and its like its got a spring in its step...it seems almost lighter lol very very happy, wont be using norton again

AMEN...

I use Kaspersky 6 too and its very good indeed, I also changed from Norton and noticed the speed in boot up time and general system performance too.

Tempted to use the anti hacker firewall too but not tried it yet.

10/10 IMO

lightbulb · 11 Nov 2006 at 09:02

Can anyone give me the memory usage for the processes created by Kaspersky Internet Security? Looking to get an all in one AV, firewall and anti-spam. TIA!

VaderDSL · 11 Nov 2006 at 09:04

lightbulb said:
Can anyone give me the memory usage for the processes created by Kaspersky Internet Security? Looking to get an all in one AV, firewall and anti-spam. TIA!

it depends, how many active monitoring bits you have enabled, is it scanning etc. in idle mine used about 6mb at most, and under a full system scan up to maybe 30mb +

lightbulb · 11 Nov 2006 at 09:26

Cheers ears, good low usage at idle, now to fork out 40 nuggets :O

kitfit1 · 11 Nov 2006 at 11:38

lightbulb said:
Cheers ears, good low usage at idle, now to fork out 40 nuggets :O

It might be £40 now, but next year when you come to renew the liscence it drops to £28. Still more expensive than most, but if you want the best.

CF93 · 21 Nov 2006 at 16:53

Well my Norton AV 2006 subscription ran out a couple of days ago, and put Kaspersky Internet Security 6 on in its place.

Gone from 40Mb free RAM and 42 processes after boot to 80Mb free RAM and 28 processes after boot (it's on a laptop with 256Mb RAM, hence the low free amount.)

Definitely, definitely, definitely better than Norton.

Seems to be much more "clued up" - asking about allowing or denying access to things that Norton would never ask about, like applications launching IE (think it was Spybot) and the integrated anti-spam that actually deletes the contents of the email before it hits the inbox rather than just marking it as spam but leaving it untouched.... (might not even need Mailwasher now!)

WON'T be going back to Norton......

(and what's even better I got it free on a pc mag, and I get 20% off the renewal after the 180 free licence period expires.)