[H] Random thoughts on Kaspersky

[Thane Sherrington]

I've never been a fan of Kaspersky, based on the largely unscientific 
observation that many computers that come in with it install are also 
infected.  I just had to install the POS on a client's computer 
today, and I think I know why it's so ineffective.  The initial 
update will probably be well over 100MB in size (I'm at 41% complete 
and it's 63.8MB).  Any program that requires updates of this size 
isn't going to get successfully updated very often, I wouldn't 
think.  Now part of this update is engine updates, admittedly, but 
even a full download of Avira is only 80MB, so I'm not sure what the 
heck Kaspersky is doing.

(I also think the founder likes to make wild-ass claims on twitter 
and in interviews which makes me a bit leery of the product as well.)

Maybe I'm being unfair, but I thought I'd mention this in case 
someone is considering it.

T