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Old Oct 20, 2015 | 1:24 pm
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Dodge DeBoulet
 
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Originally Posted by Nanook
I had eset last year and it let a virus through on both mine and husband's computers. So this year when eset was done on my computer, I got Kaspersky. Up until two weeks ago it was fine. Then we went away for 10 days and computer was off. When I turned it back on, the CPU runs at about 80-95% and is exceedingly slow. I called Kaspersky and their "fix" is to turn off the anti-banner button. It didn't help. Not happy with them at all now and I understand they're having problems with Windows 10...I'm still on Windows 7. I am also now looking for a new a/v.
Sorry to hear that. I'm running Windows 10 with Kaspersky and it's neutralized a couple of email-based vectors for me (nothing I would have opened to begin with, but it's nice to know it's actually doing something). The only issue I've had was mentioned elsewhere in this forum; Kaspersky interfered with the ability to pin/unpin applications to/from the Start menu. The workaround has been to restart Explorer, but I also know that there's a permanent fix in beta test.

My only other gripe with Kaspersky is their rootkit scan, which kicks off at something like 10am Eastern. It impacts performance enough to fire up the fan on my Lenovo T420, but it's not noticeable when I'm working on something. It also suspends operation when the laptop is running on battery so it shouldn't be a power drain. I would prefer that the start time be adjustable, though, thus my gripe.
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