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Version: Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 5.0.383
"Avoid this Russian invasion"
Pros: Nothing.
Cons: Of my many complaints, the primary one is that Kaspersky invades your system by writing data (under the header of KAVICHS) onto every single file on every partition you have. And if you are unhappy with Kaspersky as I was and decide to uninstall it, the information stays embedded in all of your files and is not deleted. Kaspersky quietly provides a tool that is supposed to remove this data, but it is a time-comsuming and irratating process if you have as many partitions and drives as I have. Kaspersky claims that the tags they add are informational only, however, I think the function of an antivirus program should be to prevent files being altered, not altering them itself.
Beyond that, I found Kaspersky buggy and unstable. On a fresh installation of Windows XP with only Sygate Personal Firewall on the system, Kaspersky crashed after the mandatory reboot both times I tried installing it, also breaking my broadband connection. The third time I removed Sygate and the program worked, although it was quite annoying how it hijacked control of my system by first updating itself and then scanning for minutes on end before it permitted any action of my part.
Kaspersky acts more like a virus than an antivirus program. I simply would not recommend it at all.
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"Of my many complaints, the primary one is that Kaspersky invades your system by writing data (under the header of KAVICHS) onto every single file on every partition you have. And if you are unhappy with Kaspersky as I was and decide to uninstall it, the information stays embedded in all of your files and is not deleted."
Well, all you have to do if you don't feel comfortable with this, is to uncheck the box next to "use the iStreams technology" during installation.
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