Speaking of nis. Can I get just one license of the corporate offering? Wouldn't mind trying it out.
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 4, 2012, at 11:23 PM, Tim Lider <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Thane, > > Like Zulfiqar said, it is lame. I've tested it in house a while back and it > does not work as well as Microsoft Security Essentials and MSE is free. > > I suggest scrapping that and either go the free route with MSE or get NIS > 2012. > > Good luck, > > Tim Lider > Sr. Data Recovery Specialist > Advanced Data Solutions, LLC > http://www.adv-data.com > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington >> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 12:09 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [H] Random thoughts on Kaspersky >> >> At 03:59 PM 04/01/2012, Thane Sherrington wrote: >>> 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. >> >> Update finished (well sort of) 106.3MB. No program updates. The >> dashboard then tells you it's up to date, but the detail report tells >> you that not all updates were downloaded. Another manual update >> (5.6MB) and then a third (866 bytes but took 43 seconds to complete, >> which seems odd). After all three it tells me that there were no more >> updates needed. Not a great feeling from this software. >> >> T >> >> > >
