Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 (3-user) - bloatware?
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From: DC on 23 Dec 2009 16:11 Amazon.com customer review I've used just about every security system in the world over the years and a year ago settled on Kaspersky 2009, which is easy to use, runs well, and does everything perfectly. Then, in September, it came time to renew my annual license. I paid my money, and, instead of just renewing me, Kaspersky sent me their new program, 2010. I installed it with no problem. The interface is more complicated but not *really* hard to figure out. After a while, however, I started noticing that there were various sites that I couldn't get to on the Internet (I use Chrome as my browser). Then I discovered that some programs, such as Eudora and Agent were taking longer and longer and longer to shut down when I clicked the X in the corner. And that almost *all* programs I opened or *all* websites that I went to were *much* slower in starting up than they had been before. I tried getting help for various issues at the online Forum where various people send in their problems and other people, including, I guess, some types hired by Kaspersky, try to help them. I got various answers but not very good ones. I finally discovered by reading a number of anguished threads in the Forum that *lots* of people were having terrible slow-down problems with Kaspersky 2010, even though 2009 had run smoothly... Continued: http://xrl.us/Kasp2010
From: Slarty on 24 Dec 2009 11:44 On 23 Dec 2009 21:11:47 -0000, DC wrote: > Amazon.com customer review > > I finally discovered by reading a number of anguished > threads in the Forum that *lots* of people were having > terrible slow-down problems with Kaspersky 2010, even > though 2009 had run smoothly... > > Continued: http://xrl.us/Kasp2010 Try switching to the simple KAV, I suspect that their software 'firewall' is at the root of it. Problems seem to vanish when you ditch that. But I didn't follow your link since my choice fixed my problem. Kaspersky is not alone in creating unneeded problems by attempting, and failing, to be all inclusive. Security suits are always a bad idea, IMO. Cheers, Roy
From: Wilf on 24 Dec 2009 12:07 DC wrote: > I finally discovered by reading a number of anguished > threads in the Forum that *lots* of people were having > terrible slow-down problems with Kaspersky 2010, even > though 2009 had run smoothly... It's true - I have been a Kaspersky Internet Security (KIS) user for 4 years and have always been more than happy with the product. However, KIS 2010 was a real problem in terms of slowing down my Vista Home Premium laptop and I uninstalled it over a month ago. However, since then, these problems have been fixed and on reinstalling KIS2010 a couple of weeks ago I found there was no longer any slowdown and everything was operating as it should. I suggest you try the latest version of KIS 2010 (9.0.0.736). On installing version 736, you then do an update which incorporates the latest fixes and requires a re-boot. Then all is ok (or at least it has been for me). -- Wilf
From: Robin Bignall on 24 Dec 2009 17:03 On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:07:11 +0000, Wilf <wilf(a)replyto.newsgroup> wrote: >DC wrote: >> I finally discovered by reading a number of anguished >> threads in the Forum that *lots* of people were having >> terrible slow-down problems with Kaspersky 2010, even >> though 2009 had run smoothly... > >It's true - I have been a Kaspersky Internet Security (KIS) user for 4 >years and have always been more than happy with the product. However, >KIS 2010 was a real problem in terms of slowing down my Vista Home >Premium laptop and I uninstalled it over a month ago. However, since >then, these problems have been fixed and on reinstalling KIS2010 a >couple of weeks ago I found there was no longer any slowdown and >everything was operating as it should. I suggest you try the latest >version of KIS 2010 (9.0.0.736). On installing version 736, you then do >an update which incorporates the latest fixes and requires a re-boot. >Then all is ok (or at least it has been for me). Thanks for that. I wonder why Kaspersky chose to release this as a separate download (which was not communicated to licensed users) rather than an automatic update. -- Robin (BrE) Herts, England
From: Wilf on 24 Dec 2009 19:28
Robin Bignall wrote: > Thanks for that. I wonder why Kaspersky chose to release this as a > separate download (which was not communicated to licensed users) > rather than an automatic update. It was an autoupdate. KIS2010 v 9.0.0.736 was, by and large, the problem version (although there were some issues with earlier versions) and is still the current version but the updates turn it into 9.0.0.736 (a.b) -- Wilf |