On the bad side, Kaspersky is awfully unfriendly to other AV and malware detecting applications. Here's a long list of applications Kaspersky claims are "incompatible" with it: http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208280128

The KAV installer detects all these products and uninstalls them (!) for you. Thankfully there is a prompt, but you cannot continue installing KAV as long as it detects any of the listed products. There is a procedure to skip the check, but it's not for the timid:
http://support.kaspersky.com/kav2010/install?qid=208280398

-tranglos (December 08, 2009, 12:05 PM)

That's one hell of an un!impressive list. What's got an AV to do with a firewall (Outpost in my case)?

What are your upload speeds?

-Carol Haynes (November 22, 2009, 03:37 AM)

It's an enormous and relatively stable 548kbs. I'm about to change ISPs but BT wants to force me to go with them. So a few more phone calls will be in order.

McAfee seems to have a few problems with their uploader, at least on Win7. (temporary and manually) suspend function doesn't work, so either cancel or leave it running and be content with the low browsing speed. Temporary suspend via CPU usage doesn't do a thing either, I set it down to 10% but it just keeps running.

This is of course my secondary backup but I find myself rather often in the situation that I need some files and there's a computer but it isn't my one, So the idea was to have access to that stuff from almost everywhere. That might have to do with my being very well disorganised but that's not going to change.

I've downloaded the trial version (no probs on Win 7 so far), should last me until the discount. Even if not it has become a must have over the course of just 36 hours.  ;)