Is Kapersky Internet Security good? Seems to drag system

I'm dealing with an unhealthy machine that has Kapersky Internet Security suite, fully updated, with all bells and whistles "ON". The machine runs like .... well slowwwwwww. I turned off Kapersky entirely and it is much faster.

is this package a 'top choice' with you experts? I like AVAST Home personally and hate Norton, but in between I'm ambivalent....

recos please

 

Moved to Software forum.


Yes Kaspersky is a very good Security Suite. I ran it for about a year with no issues. Is it up to date? Although, every computer is set up diffetent and what runs good on one machine may slow another one down.


That said. There are other very good free security solutions. You might have a look at the MajorGeeks Top Freeware Picks and see if you can find something that runs better on your computer.

 

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thanks. it is up to date and doing its job, but it definitely taxes one a bit for its hard work.
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Yes Kaspersky can tend to be a resource hog, my philosophy when defending my system is to use a combination of resource-light programs rather than load some huge beast onto my computer (Norton anyone?). I would suggest picking up a good free malware program such as Malware Bytes, I would also suggest downloading Avira and installing the latest Avira updates, and I would also make sure to have a killer firewall because if the firewall is awesome you have very little to be concerned about, I prefer ZoneAlarmPro.

I use this combination and rarely ever have a problem.

 

I've tried most programs and the fastest and best for me is MSE and comodo firewall. I don't understand why Microsoft Security Essentials is not even mentioned on Major Geeks "top freeware picks". It should be.

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

http://majorgeeks.com/Comodo_Personal_Firewall_d5033.html

 

Thanks for the suggestion Samtal but I'll stick to free...that and I have never been one to use anything by Microsoft outside of their office software and OS.

 

Both of the programs samtal suggested are "free" programs, and no matter what you think of Microsoft, their Security Essentials is a decent antivirus/antispyware/malware program with real time protection, and it`s hard to beat Comodo Firewall.

 

Fair enough Jordan, and Zone Alarm Pro is actually a firewall that requires payment but I pay anyway because to be honest I have NEVER found a better firewall.

 

There is no reason to hate norton as a matter of fact I use NIS 2011 and it does an excellent job at catching most everything including custom FUD's.

I recommend these three free tools

Norton Power Eraser
Spybot: Search & Destroy
Norton Safeweb Lite

 

So Kaspersky comes in at 4, interesting. Never heard of that site or what not, i just know from experience, that free products aren't cutting it on there own, unless your layering for enough protection. I use Kaspersky myself, and despite the 2011 version seeming to be more demanding and resource hungery then 2010, it still does very well for me. Every year at the shop we do a random testing of several popular antivirus/firewall packages, and Kaspersky seems to always come out on top.