Kaspersky or McAfee?

Hey guys,

I'm now using the McAfee Security Suite 2005 with firewall and antispam programs along with the antivirus. It's pretty nice and working just fine.
I've read that Kaspersky antivirus is better the McAfee and all the others and has more updates, and detects more viruses.

Is that true? Should I use Kaspersky on my computer, along with a firewall such as Sygate for instance, instead of the McAfee suite?

Would appericiate your help,
Nir.

 

I'd have to agree with that statement.

 

hmmm... I'm using the latest McAfee with VirusScan ver. 9.1, Personal Firewall Plus ver. 6.1 & Spam Killer ver. 6.1.

Nir.

 

I, unfortunately, have that on my machine at work.. what a load of garbage.

 

I would choose kaspersky because it has better detection rates, updates every hour, good protection, and it doesnt hog up system resources.

controlmind

 

I used to have Mcaffee until someone told me to try Avast and it found 8 trojans that Mcaffee missed.

 

If you do try Kaspersky and Sygate I recommend that you disable Kaspersky's IDS feature when installing it. They will NOT play nice together otherwise. During install of Kaspersky you will see a check box that says something about using recommended settings. Uncheck this. the next screen you will see 2 more check boxes, uncheck the on that deasl with protection against network attacks (not needed since you are running a firewall). That's it. Should you need help visit their forum.

http://forum.kaspersky.com/

 

I had serious issues with Kaspersky running on my machine. I paid for both the antivirus and firewall that they make, I ended up having to uninstall both, and get a refund.
IMO they are buggy programs.

 

Sorry to hear that MellowMan... Eveyone's system will react to different software. With MellowMan experience I would atleast run the trial before buying. I have used Kaspersky Antivirus for years and haven't had any problems yet (knock on wood). As for their firewall, there are better ones out there....

 

From what I read in the new book in front of me, Kaspersky AntiVirus personal is:

 

Personally I love avast!. Its a great AV solution. I used to like AVG till it went to crap and stopped updating and never detected anything.

Mcaffee or Kaspersky... i'd go Kaspersky, just because I don't like Mcaffee's big "suite" products. I like their virus research labs for writeups though... they're nice and thorough.

 

Yeah, there firewall isnt that good, lots of thing pass through it on the tests. But it has improved on the beta version of it.

controlmind

 

I agree, but for home user.

controlmind