Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 receives the Gold Malware Treatment Award

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I have NOD32 setup on my parents computer, with under 512MB of RAM, I can't afford to install anything that is going to hog alot of resources. I've been buying NOD32 for a few years now. But it looks like now is the time to switch to Kaspersky!

How big of a resource hog is Kaspersky in comparison with NOD32?

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I have NOD32 setup on my parents computer, with under 512MB of RAM, I can't afford to install anything that is going to hog alot of resources. I've been buying NOD32 for a few years now. But it looks like now is the time to switch to Kaspersky!

How big of a resource hog is Kaspersky in comparison with NOD32?

Avast scored just as well as Kaspersy and its free and much more light weight than Kaspersky too.

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Pity the new Comodo Antivirus wasn't tested, it would have been interesting to see where it fitted in with the competition.

I tested Comodo myself, with some malware. Out of 15 samples it detected 3 if I remember correctly.

It's a really poor antivirus, then again - it is free.

I downloaded this and gave it a try...What a joke, it may protect like they say but it's such a system hog. NOD FTW!

Rubbish. The only joke here is NOD32, with extremely poor Malware protection and next to no ability to remove any malware it finds.

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It's hard to believe NOD32 would fail so miserably.

NOD doesn't have any self-protection on XP, so any viruses designed to disable AV products can kill it*. Anyway, I'm more concerned with how an AV detects malware before it's executed, rather than cleaning an already infected machine, and NOD does this well.

*I'm not sure how many of the 15 viruses used in this test have that functionality.

I am wondering if NOD32 comes with heuristic, adware/spyware/riskware, potentially unwanted applications, and potentially unsafe applications enabled by default. This *might* be why NOD32 got 0/15, which would be ridiculous. It is been a long time, so I don't remember if I enabled them manually or not.

In v3, detection of potentially unsafe apps is disabled by default, and detection of possibly unwanted apps is a user-selected option during install. (I'm going from memory here, but I think that's right)

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Kaspersky seems kind of expensive. How much does a renewal run you.. I can't seem to find it on their website.

Actually Avast scored just as well as Kaspersky and you can get that one for free!!

The one thing about nod, is they say you have to buy 2 license to install it on 2 computer, but if you install it on 2 computers with just 1 license and use the same user name pass on both, it works :|

Kaspersky Internet Security 1-year 3-pc licenses only cost me $20 CAD incl. tax. because it always goes on sale at one time or another during the year at one retail store or another. Since the key lasts one year from the time you activate, I just buy a copy for the following year when there's a sale. So...not very expensive at all.

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Avast scored just as well as Kaspersy and its free and much more light weight than Kaspersky too.

I'll give that a try tonight, maybe free is the best solution? From what I've heard AVG is what most schools tend to use, so its definitely a well established product.

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I tested Comodo myself, with some malware. Out of 15 samples it detected 3 if I remember correctly.

It's a really poor antivirus, then again - it is free.

Rubbish. The only joke here is NOD32, with extremely poor Malware protection and next to no ability to remove any malware it finds.

You're right, Nod32 miss LOT of "Trojan.Vundo.H". I download Malwarebytes, it's catch them 100% of them! Im happy with it!

I change to Kaspersky from Nod32 v3.

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Cool, I'm glad I made the right choice by switching from Mcafee to Kaspersky :)

well, it somehow tested McAfee 2008 against Kaspersky 2009, while McAfee 2009 has already been out.

Dr.Web Anti-Virus <--------- :huh: this took top spot ? where did this come from

from Russia, supposedly the AV used by the Russian government military. When an antivirus is the choice of its local government, I usually don't trust it ;)

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You're right, Nod32 miss LOT of "Trojan.Vundo.H". I download Malwarebytes, it's catch them 100% of them! Im happy with it!

I change to Kaspersky from Nod32 v3.

You won't regret it (Y)

What I did was look for malware. Downloaded it then ran it past NOD32 - about 60% detected but strangely not a single piece of malware removed. :laugh: Then I scanned the malwares with Kaspersky, detected all but 1 and swiftly removed them. The one malware it missed, I quarantined. Sent to Kaspersky and 40minutes later, an email with a thankyou and detection. Try and get any of that from Eset. You are likely to be waiting forever and detection may never happen or two weeks after the submission, with zero replies from ESET. ESET, never again.

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well, it somehow tested McAfee 2008 against Kaspersky 2009, while McAfee 2009 has already been out.

I've never used mcafee 2009, how does it compare with 2008? I moved from Mcafee 2008 to KIS 2009 when my Mcafee ran out just before Mcafee 2009 released.

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