Kaspersky slows Computer?

[jbartlett323]

I have seen the general consensus around here for Kaspersky, and where I do believe its good protection wise, every machine I have seen with it installed was slow. And not just the typical you-installed-an-antivirus slow, I'm talking dead slow. Typically IMO, Norton and McCrappy are lighter than KAV (and they could both bring a datacenter cluster to its knees). Therefore, I can't recommend it. Many of our users are on older machines, true, and KAV does take a heavier bite on older machines, but newer machines fair no better in my opinion. Capable machines ( I5, 8gb, etc) seem to slow down significantly with KAV. We have diagnosed a couple of machines with no other problems other than KAV.
I do however, find their rescue disk to be an indispensable part of my virus removal toolkit!!!

 

[joydivision]

Funny this has gone up, got a customer asking for her money back as she says Kaspersky slows down her PC too much.

 

[bertie40]

My AV is up for renewal, I've used KIS for years without problem.

Thinking of renewing.

I notice most of the chat is about KAV. Particularly it's speed.

Is the internet security extras within KIS worth it ? Is it these features causing the slowdown?

I'm assuming KIS has a heavier load, so..... KAV should be nippier.

 

[Martyn]

My AV is up for renewal, I've used KIS for years without problem.

Thinking of renewing.

I notice most of the chat is about KAV. Particularly it's speed.

Is the internet security extras within KIS worth it ? Is it these features causing the slowdown?

I'm assuming KIS has a heavier load, so..... KAV should be nippier.

I use KAV as I found KIS was too heavy on older computers. KAV is pretty good all round I find. In fact I generally find *IS packages too restrictive.

 

[redmon]

I use KAV as I found KIS was too heavy on older computers. KAV is pretty good all round I find. In fact I generally find *IS packages too restrictive.

I agree. Whatever brand I go with is always just the av. I despise the full Internet Security products.

 

[Larry Sabo]

I agree. Whatever brand I go with is always just the av. I despise the full Internet Security products.

I just spend almost 3 hrs trying to figure out why this XP SP3 laptop always gave "limited or no connectivity" on both wireless and Ethernet connections. I had tried everything and was almost ready to N&P, when I finally fixed it by uninstalling Avira Internet Security. Damn! My customer bought it directly instead of buying Avira Antivirus Suite through me.

If you give customers the option of blocking something, sooner or later they guess wrong and it screws up the system. That's why I agree with you, and generally discourage any security product the includes a firewall. K.I.S. has never given me a problem, however.