Re: Why Kaspersky?
From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 08/29/05
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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 23:28:25 GMT
From: "Kevin Reiter" <tux@penguinnetwerx.net>
| 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
It is good feedback.
The problem with such comparisons is the process of testing often may be biased. Either
deliberately or accidently skewing the results. Kasperski is a top rated AV, no doubt about
it. However, if you compare this listing to others you'll find they don't compare and are
all different from each other.
Remember; there are lies, damn lies, statistics and benchmarks ;-)
-- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
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