sorry to say but i don't think ANY virus scanner is worth $99 i can get a good scanner and a trojan scanner for that price and although kaspersky is good at detection of both viruses and trojans , it can't clean them well ... i had the 4.0 personal version. It an absolute headache to be opening all the different modules ... one nice integrated scanner is easier ... AVG has an awesome concept ... you should get either Nod32 or Solo ... they are gr8 at detecting and cleaning and very light on your system.

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I have been using Kaspersky for some while and it is very powerful. It will check inside all the common archive/compressed files. See here for details and look at line 96 onwards. Also it has a plugin which allows The Bat! e-mail client to check e-mails automatically. The virus definitions are updated every day. As noted above, it does well in tests particularly the anti-trojan aspects. However like bhav I found that it slowed my 1.2GHz Athlon system down considerably if I allowed it to run permanently in the background. I could have speeded it up by disabling the in depth scanning features. I was already using eTrust (previously InnoculateIT) and found it to be excellent when run in TRS mode (no slowing down at all) but not so good as an on demand/download scanner as it would only look inside zip archives. The compromise I now use is to have eTrust running all the time so that every file which is opened is checked and to use Kaspersky as an on demand and download scanner. In practice Kaspersky checks a downloaded file by opening a temporary copy which it scans. If that temporary file is infected eTrust flags it up before Kaspersky has a chance to check it and since I have eTrust set to delete all infected files immediately Kaspersky has only clean files to check. So far eTrust has caught everything but I assume that if eTrust missed something then Kaspersky might well pick it up. I have not had any conflicts at all. I believe that the only time conflicts arise is when two AV programs are running in TSR mode at the same time. I also run AVG as an on demand scanner with the Outlook Express plugin activated for the very few times I use OE. Again there are no conflicts. I run a web site (not connected with computers) and this generates a lot of e-mails of which a high percentage are infected spam. I use Mailwasher to throw out the obvious ones but the odd one still creeps through. So far my AV programs have caught every one so I am happy. Overall I find Kaspersky to be an excellent on demand AV scanner but it slows my system down significantly when run in TSR mode. Whether it is worth the money is debatable. I guess that for many people AVG which is free plus a good free firewall is sufficient. It is certainly worth trying Kaspersky and forming your own opinions.

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Russians! Go figure. Thanks to all for your opinions. I guess for now I'll stick to my free AVG 6 program along with my registered copy of ZONE ALARM PRO. -they both seem to work fine- The problem still is a good trojan scaner (non-trail) because 30 days of trojan scanning will only save your *ss, well, for 30 days. Thanks again. ...and kids: avoid all sorts of headaches from worm and virus problems by simply NOT DOWNLOADING --> - CHILD PORN - CRACKZ & SERIALZ - OR copyright.exe FILES!!!!!!! and of course, be smart with opening e-mails. yes boys and girls, it's as simple as that. Later.

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If you are a home user then the personal edition is the one for you! I have used KAV for 4 years now and its great i have never been infected with a virus or Trojan however i do practice what i preach im very careful when it comes to pc security as i do it for a living. $99??? the cd boxed version costs me £24.99 if you are experiencing slow computer performance with version 4.0 you can uncheck the scan memory and boot sector option this will speed up things considerably. Some might say its more for professional use well i disagree leave it alone it does its job and you would never no its running on a modern PC! Tim

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"yes boys and girls, it's as simple as that." Ohhhh no its not. I was searching google for a tech support question and clicked a link. An infected server started atacking me. That same night.. the guy across the street was downloading all the stuff in your list and he was left virus free. Moral of story.. Doesnt matter what your doing, when your doing it, why your doing it, for who your doing it, etc etc etc etc etc. You dont even have to be online.. ever to get infected with a virus. Floppy ring a bell? Keep your antivirus software running 100% of the time, keep the defs updated every day and your as close as you can get to safe. The only full proof way to stay safe is backing up your data to removable disk so you can restore it when you are infected.

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99, nope just get one. one that is foolproof does not exist. the only way to not get a virus, trojan etc is not to use a computer. sooner or later you will get one. 4 years, ok. 6 years ok. you will get one. I have been online for ages. I use norton just because that is what I started with. I have had two viruses in my years. actually one. the wife picked up the other when I was away on vacation. lol that does not sound right but you see the point.

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Floppy?! what the hell is a "f l o p p y" ?

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The length of time without getting a virus/trojan is not a good indication of how well an AV proggy performs. I know people who could get a virus in a few days with every AV program imaginable installed on their machine. On the other side of the coin, on most of my machines I don't run any kind of AV. I use the best kind of AV; 'Informed Common Sense', works pretty damn good. Most infections are due to click-happy users not bad AV software. That being said, the only machine I own that I run AV sw on is my laptop. Since I plug it in wherever I go, and my business has several corporate clients, it's kind of necessary. I still firmly believe that the best protection against spyware/hackers/virii/etc. is a good basic computing textbook.

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Morality of the story: Whatever you buy or you use is good as long as you are satisfied yourself. Karpersky's program is an excellent product reconized to be a little bit difficult to configurate for a regular user with a medium knowledge about computers... that's mean only 30% of users will be able to use this russian program correctly. I don't think it's enough to choose the program for the common user..... and pay for such a sophiticated program if you are not able to use it.... Personnally runing a very upsolate computer embaded with windows 95 !!!! Yes I am a pioner !!!! I have an antic version of Norton 5.0 which keep performant as long as I update the database regulary. and for Trojan's I use the wonderful Trojan Remover version 4.93 I bought both programs and I never got any virus able to spread into my "old limousine", of course I received suspicious emails, with corrupted files as everybody. But as soon as the file was downloaded, both programs reacted to stop the spread. I like especially the "Trojan Remover" program which is so easy to use and perform. Anybody without a particular knowledge is able to use it, and get out of any Trojan betrayal.... I think a good program for me is a program which don't ask you any particular knowledge to run it..... always looking for the regarding competition between quality and price..... not you ?

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