My apologies.. it's been a while since my last post.. I will be a better blogger. I'm getting married in November and just moved into a new house. Cool stuff going on but back to Kaspersky, I have not yet gotten all the details but I will soon have a link where you can get discounts. I know you are waiting with baited breath.
Something interesting I found which you will want to tweak with Kaspersky:
If you have Kaspersky currently set up to scan all drives which it does by default this may need to change if you are in a networked environment. It includes networked drives and if you have mapped network drives your workstations could be attempting to scan your servers which will be really slow and cause unnecessary network traffic. Please avoid this by just unchecking the network drives option.
More fun later. Now I'm going to enjoy a cup of coffee and more work. I hope you enjoy the rest of your day too. I'm glad I could be a small part of it.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Why I Chose Kaspersky
I had many things to consider in my choice of an antivirus software solution. Price was a factor, but if it doesn't do the job, it's more expensive to pay for somebody's time to fix a virus-laden computer system. Not to mention the inconvenience and downtime for a user who really needs to get their job done and can't do it without the computer. One of the reports I looked at in making a decision of what software to use was http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/ondret/avc_report26.pdf which shows Kaspersky as one of the top candidates. Then I narrowed down by which companies have a corporate office in the US so I can easily contact them for technical support by phone. This kicked out a few of them and Kaspersky has been around for quite some time as a respected name in the antivirus marketplace, so I went ahead and chose them.
More on how you can get a discount on Kaspersky will be available in a future blog post. Sorry to tease like this, but I really have very little time to devote to this blog. I want to give you all the information I had which I used quite successfully to make a good decision on my antivirus software. If you reach the same conclusions I did or if you have had other experiences, please post comments. I'd like to see what you think.
More on how you can get a discount on Kaspersky will be available in a future blog post. Sorry to tease like this, but I really have very little time to devote to this blog. I want to give you all the information I had which I used quite successfully to make a good decision on my antivirus software. If you reach the same conclusions I did or if you have had other experiences, please post comments. I'd like to see what you think.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Technorati Claim Code
I have to put this little code in so that Technorati trusts that I'm the real author of this site. Yes... I'm him: 9QFYGWCY2MQQ
I hope they like that a lot :)
I hope they like that a lot :)
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Which Antivirus Software is Better?
The Big Decision
I recently had an opportunity to test and review various antivirus solutions for the nonprofit organization I work for. I will leave out their name to protect the innocent. We had been using CA's ITM 8.1 anti-malware product. We seriously needed something better because the software was difficult to manage and we had been hit with malware on quite a number of systems that were supposedly protected. I had been looking for third party reviews of CA and couldn't find any. I looked at Virus Bulletin and various other review sites and nothing told me much detail about CA. Looking further, I found that Kaspersky was highly ranked and so was Sophos. These were the top 2 players. Sophos looks like a great product, but their software is just too expensive. We were able to afford Kaspersky due to getting a non-profit discount. So that's what we decided to do. We went with the Enterprise Space Security product because we do have an Exchange server and about 200 or so desktops and laptops.
The deployment
So I installed it and set it up. I've been tracking all the time I've spent looking at settings, deploying software and removing CA from computers that already have it installed. Unfortunately for some reason the automatic uninstall for Kaspersky to remove CA didn't work properly so I did have write a batch file to automatically uninstall CA. Not a huge deal, but I've spent more time on the CA uninstall issues than on the Kaspersky issues. I've spent a total of 20 hours so far and I've already gotten Kaspersky installed on 2 servers, 18 laptops and 120 desktops. So I'm mostly done, but there were a number of systems that failed to install due to them being Windows XP SP1 which Kaspersky doesn't support. So I have a fellow tech working on going out to each of the systems to upgrade them to SP3. I'm extremely happy with how the deployment is going and I've been told by several users that while their machines seem to be a bit slower at login, they are much faster and more responsive throughout the workday which I'm really impressed with.
My Conclusions
My personal belief is that Kaspersky is software that I can trust to find malware and not to slow down my systems. I personally believe that they have the absolute best value in the market and they have consistently performed well on my tests and also on other third party tests. I will publish results of other third party review tests later, but I'm running out of time to write this today. Kaspersky's antivirus software is absolutely the only software I can recommend right now. Please don't waste time like I did running into one brick wall after another trying all the other software out there. I've had problems with everything else I've tried. I'm also using it at home and for me it seems to be working extremely well.
Want a Discount?
To get Kaspersky at a discount... stay tuned for more blogs to come. I'll be an affiliate soon and I'll be offering you some great deals on both home and business anti-malware solutions.
I recently had an opportunity to test and review various antivirus solutions for the nonprofit organization I work for. I will leave out their name to protect the innocent. We had been using CA's ITM 8.1 anti-malware product. We seriously needed something better because the software was difficult to manage and we had been hit with malware on quite a number of systems that were supposedly protected. I had been looking for third party reviews of CA and couldn't find any. I looked at Virus Bulletin and various other review sites and nothing told me much detail about CA. Looking further, I found that Kaspersky was highly ranked and so was Sophos. These were the top 2 players. Sophos looks like a great product, but their software is just too expensive. We were able to afford Kaspersky due to getting a non-profit discount. So that's what we decided to do. We went with the Enterprise Space Security product because we do have an Exchange server and about 200 or so desktops and laptops.
The deployment
So I installed it and set it up. I've been tracking all the time I've spent looking at settings, deploying software and removing CA from computers that already have it installed. Unfortunately for some reason the automatic uninstall for Kaspersky to remove CA didn't work properly so I did have write a batch file to automatically uninstall CA. Not a huge deal, but I've spent more time on the CA uninstall issues than on the Kaspersky issues. I've spent a total of 20 hours so far and I've already gotten Kaspersky installed on 2 servers, 18 laptops and 120 desktops. So I'm mostly done, but there were a number of systems that failed to install due to them being Windows XP SP1 which Kaspersky doesn't support. So I have a fellow tech working on going out to each of the systems to upgrade them to SP3. I'm extremely happy with how the deployment is going and I've been told by several users that while their machines seem to be a bit slower at login, they are much faster and more responsive throughout the workday which I'm really impressed with.
My Conclusions
My personal belief is that Kaspersky is software that I can trust to find malware and not to slow down my systems. I personally believe that they have the absolute best value in the market and they have consistently performed well on my tests and also on other third party tests. I will publish results of other third party review tests later, but I'm running out of time to write this today. Kaspersky's antivirus software is absolutely the only software I can recommend right now. Please don't waste time like I did running into one brick wall after another trying all the other software out there. I've had problems with everything else I've tried. I'm also using it at home and for me it seems to be working extremely well.
Want a Discount?
To get Kaspersky at a discount... stay tuned for more blogs to come. I'll be an affiliate soon and I'll be offering you some great deals on both home and business anti-malware solutions.
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