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superboyac:
i think I'm done with Kaspersky also.  It keeps flagging one of my exe's as a virus...and the virus definition name is "not a virus", funny enough.  So I double checked to see if it's actually a virus, and it's not.  So I try making an exclusion.  I successfully created an exclusion for it...but it does nothing.  Every time it gets scanned, it deletes the file.  I have no idea what the exclusion does.  It's like the application is acting like an asshole.  I've tried doing the exclusion a couple of different ways, and it just doesn't work the way I want it too.  It seems like the only thing the exclusions does is allow the file to exist UNTIL it gets scanned.  I don't know what that means.  It means, before the exclusion, I couldn't even have the exe around, it would just not be allowed.  After the exclusion, the file is allowed to be there, but any time a manual scan is run, it will get deleted.  There's no way around it.  Kaspersky is really pissing me off, I think I'm done with it.

superboyac:
I just have to reiterate, even though I've said this before...
Without Kaspersky, my computer is SOOOOOO fast.  Do AV programs really have to bog down computers this much?  Really?  I'm not saying we don't need AV protection, but is it really that necessary for the performance to suffer this much because of it?  I mean, Kaspersky is a well respected name in the AV business. It's not Norton or anything, but even Kas has gone the way of bloat and bog the past several years.  I've heard similar stories about NOD, though maybe not as much.

timns:
I do have to say, I am very pleased to have switched to MSE recently for just those reasons: flab! So far, MSE feels amazingly "light" on the system - especially considering it's an MS product.

superboyac:
I do have to say, I am very pleased to have switched to MSE recently for just those reasons: flab! So far, MSE feels amazingly "light" on the system - especially considering it's an MS product.
-timns (January 16, 2011, 06:14 PM)
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You know...I have to agree 100%.  I just replaced Kaspersky with MSE, and it's pretty darn good.  The interface is clear, simple, and effective.  It seems as though all the options and tweaks are in the right spots without too much confusion, something that Kaspersky has lost its mind with lately.  It's very light!  Everything is faster on my computer, by quite a bit!  I'm so happy about it!  F-U Kasperksy.  That's what I have to say to that.

And good job by Microsoft for making an excellent product.  We'll see if I'll miss the quantity of features that KIS had, but it doesn't seem like it.  All that stuff was a big headache, and if I analyze my habits in the past few years, I'll admit that what I usually did was just turn annoying things off.  So what's the point of having this big suite if you're going to just turn things off?  Good work, MS, you got it right.

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