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(More customer reviews)I have been a pretty happy, satisfied Trend Micro PC Cillin user for many years now. Not too long ago I downloaded the 2007 version of their suite.
friend of mine did too. We both ran into some fairly wacky problems; Hers evens worse than mine. Decided 2007, though it has potential, wasn't quite ready for prime time yet. May check on it again in a few months.
Kaspersky's antiviral reputation has been very high for years, and so I thought I would drop PC Cillin and take their suite for a spin.
No problems with the installation. Their general layout is more confusing...to me anyway...than PC Cillin's. But default settings would suit most folks. And I finally found my way around. For once it might be eaier for most to go ahead and read their pretty thorough manual before installing though.( I didn;t...lol...but read it later).
I put in a little extra effort and am in the process of placing all their protections on max....just to see if that will cause any problems....maybe back off to their more easy going and recommended ( for most users)security levels. The result is plenty of popups for several days asking whether they should allow certain processes. Usually it is pretty easy to determine how to respond. Actually it has been easy every time so far. For instance when I first moved to check for and download new Spysweeper definitions, I got four popups from kaspersky...each from different aspects of their computer protection. I instructed it to add Spysweeper to the trusted zone in all, and so the next time I downloaded SS updates there was nary a popup.
For the most dedicated user, the program can be customized in pretty minute detail....if you want to spend the time.
The auto setting is definitely the way to go on downloads, and they come pretty frequently and seamlessly.Call for a restart only every now and then.
Their shields have alread stopped 3 attempted attacks from the ol Helkern Slammer worm. Amazed that chesnut is still around.
It's real time HTTP internet activity scans are a large plus. It's email scans do not seem to slow Outlook down much.
Kaspersky has some ingenious methods of detecting on the fly if a file it is scanning has changed or not since the last scan. if not, it leaves it alone. So though initial scans can take a long time, subsequent scans are much faster. Some are incredibly quick.
It puts a moderate footprint on computer action. Nothing too serious. But i wouldn;t call it light. ( I have a 3.2 processor and a couple gigs of ram) Slows you down a bit here and there. The scans are easy to schedule, and run unobobtrusively in the background.
Resident Office Outlook 2003 is my email program of choice, and it already has excellent junk mail handling techniques...so I disabled K's antispam component. Can't speak to its quality.
All I know about it's firewall is that it has performed well in leak tests. Certainly better than average. (my impression was the new PC Cillin 2007 shield is strong too. Much improved over 2006 in that regard).
Tests around the world vary so often, and the security landscape is in such flux, that it isn't easy to know which tester to believe and when to believe tests at all. But Kapersky detection rates on tests generally range from very good to superb. Often enough at the very top.
One feature of PC Cillin I miss is their option to secure certain critical data from any web access....stuff like passwords and credit card numbers. But Kaspersky stands a good chance of blocking those attempts from ever occuring without needing that particular feature.
Unlesss you get very unlucky with system conflicts ( like one person who has posted here), after the teaching mode's popups pass, this should be a solid set it and forget it suite.
I like Kaspersky's honesty in their spyware detection. So many antispyware programs go after simple really harmless tracking cookies just to boost their detection rep. Kaspersky does not do that. They are like a stealth bomber that refuses to attack civilians in that regard.
Somebody said that the only 100% secure computer is an unplugged computer. And that is, in my opinion, true actually. Kaspersky is honest enough to say pretty much exactly the same thing in their manual. But you certainly can tilt the odds heavily in your security's favor by wise browsing, email, download, and file sharing choices....and also by using this suite.
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