Anybody here using Kaspersky Internet Security?

[JDgreen227]

I have had their Security Suite installed in our 3 Vista computers for the past year, and all 3 have been experiencing very slow boot up times and running, which seemed to become more extreme as time went by. This morning I uninstalled the ISS from the laptop I am using right now because the license was expired, and now boot up time has been cut to about a third of what is was earlier today, and the computer runs much faster. I know security software slows down boot up time and processing a little, but the difference in this machine is amazing. Anybody else have the same experience?

 

[Fossil Farm]

Several security softwares will run a scan of the critical file structure
at boot up. Of course this will slow down boot up time. Some will allow
you to go into the settings and change to not do a scan at boot up.
I've used McAfee, Norton, and a few others, but not Kaspersky, so I am
not sure if they allow the user to change certain settings. Might be worth
a few minutes to see if you can change them and if it makes a difference.
Good luck.

 

[JDgreen227]

The weird thing is, over the course of the year I had the license for the ISS, the computers became progressively slower and slower even though I had practically no programs running at startup aside from the Vista OS and those required for the computers to operate as well as Kaspersky. There was no conflict between the ISS and Windows Defender as I had WD turned off. All PC's are maxed out on 4GB of memory. To give you an idea of how slow they were running, the second laptop has been uninstalling the ISS with the expired license for more than an hour now !!!

 

[deerseeker001]

i had Norton for many years and when Norton 360 came out i started having lots of problems and i had enough,i also had McAfee,for the last few years i have Kaspersky,i love it,it dont slow you down like Norton.

 

[yooper1]

I think I have tried the Kaspersky in the past, but cannot remember if it was slow or fast.

I now use AVAST...it is free and updates regularly.

I also had used AVG, but something about an update one time was weird. I ended up trying to do a system restore but could not. I tried uninstalling AVG but it would not uninstall. I Googled the error / problem (for the life of me I cannot remember exactly what the problem was) and found many posts / sites where they had problems with AVG. I finally found a way to get it removed but had to go into the registry, which is a touchy area if you do not know how to edit registries.

 

[radioman]

I had kaspersky before, not anymore. I too use bloated vista ultimate. I noticed that now whenever I get slowdowns or issues with vista after many many mini MS updates every week- it would just become so flogged- I would just blow it away and reinstall OS from scratch and run updates before using and it would be fast again. no memory upgrades.

 

[Fossil Farm]

To give you an idea of how slow they were running, the second laptop has been uninstalling the ISS with the expired license for more than an hour now !!!

If you have Vista as your operating system, it was an attempt to upgrade XP. We did not go to it at work, nor did many others. Win 7 came out not
long after. Unfortunately, as OS's improved, 4 GB of RAM is not all that much
anymore. 1 GB used to be huge !!

If your laptop is having trouble uninstalling, then it or Kasp. has hung the
laptop and you may need to interrupt the uninstall and try again, if it will
let you.

As you have found out, with Kasp. uninstalled, the laptop runs much quicker.
So there must be a link between Kasp. and boot, which may be a file scan
on boot as I mentioned earlier. Except for DOS computers, as time goes on
computers get slower because of broken links in the registry and all kinds of
issues, regardless of what programs load on boot up. At work we just
rebuilt from scratch, but we had a standard image for all workstations and
just moved user data to the rebuilt system. Not so easy to do at home.
Good luck.

 

[kf4uda]

I used Norton for years. It got to where it seemed to take over the whole computer. I did some research and discovered Eset Smart Security. I have been using it for about 3 years and have no complaints. It is not free (maybe for a trial) and not any cheaper than Norton but it does not take possession of your whole computer, yet provides good protection.

 

[RaydaKub]

I installed Kaspersky in December and January on both my kids laptops after they both got worms (daughter week before T-day, son week before coming home for Christmas). I had been using AVG on them.

One reason I bought Kaspersky was that the reviews I read (cnet, some others) all said it was the best at NOT slowing the machine down. All 3 of them seem ok to me yet.

 

[TripleR]

I have used Kaspersky Internet Security on an XP lap top, Vista desktip and Windows laptop with no problems. I have used Norton, McAfee and Trend Micro.