Re: Why Kaspersky?

From: Kevin Reiter (tux_at_penguinnetwerx.net)
Date: 08/29/05 

Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 18:00:28 -0400

nemo_outis wrote:
> To see why Kaspersky is arguably the best antivirus program out there check
> out:
>
> http://www.virus.gr/english/fullxml/default.asp?id=69&mnu=69

I would argue the phrase "arguably the best antivirus program out there".
  That debate is long-running and not something that should take up
bandwidth on this list.

> Note that its undetected percentage, 0.72% is nearly *three times better*
> than the next best program (AVK 2.07%).
>
> The latest Kaspersky programs (version 5 series) do use a controversial
> feature, istreams, which places data in an alternate data stream attached
> to each scanned file on an NTFS partition/drive. This feature can be
> *disabled* if the user prefers (the location is not obvious, however!) and
> any already tagged files can be untagged with the utility klstreamremover
> available from Kaspersky (or using third-party tools such as the excellent
> ADS uninstaller that comes with Hijackthis).

While Kaspersky is good, I uninstalled it after I found out it disabled
vnc viewer and a lot of tools I use on a daily basis. Even after I added
them as exclusions, it categorized them as "hostile scripts" and denied
access to them. After I disabled that kind of protection, the files were
useless. The only *useful* way I found around this was disabling
Kaspersky altogether - something I didn't like doing, but hey, I make
money with these tools...

The other thing I didn't like about it was the configuration. I normally
don't spend that much time adding every single file I don't want scanned
to a list, only to have that list ignored. I probably could have spent
more time learning all the configuration options, but then again, I
shouldn't *have* to. And removing the extra stream data after I
uninstalled the software left a bad taste in my mouth as well - it should
take care of that on it's own during the uninstall.

Just my .02

Kevin

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