Free Kaspersky Antivirus from AOL

[Baked]

Sweet. Gonna give it a go.

Ok, WTF. I tried to install this program and it's asking me to uninstall AntiVir 1st. :|

 

[Xyclone]

Boo AOL!

Horraaayyyy Kaspersky! (and beer!)

 

[geldor1]

Thanks OP.

Just use your gmail spam mailbox to register.

 

[airjrdn]

I have my own domain name I've used for my email address for years. Strangely, I'm not getting their activation code email. However, I was able to get it via Gmail and Hotmail. I've checked spam filtering, but it doesn't appear there either. Any ideas?

 

[govtcheez75]

anyone know if this is better than Macafee? I get the whole Macafee suite free from Comcast (anti virus, firewall, privacy). I think they are resouce hogs, so I wouldn't mind replacing them with this if I knew it was better and used less resources.

 

[airjrdn]

Kaspersky is arguably the best AV solution out there. I personally wouldn't run anything from McAfee (or Norton non-enterprise), but that's just me. A little searching on AV reviews will turn up info on Kaspersky being one of the top apps across the board.

 

[country2]

Anyone tried it on windows2000?I installed it twice and after the reboot it wouldn't (computer)do anything almost as if keyboard was dead when I did ctrl,alt & del to let me login...thanks for my backups really wasn't a big deal but anyone else have it happen?

 

[kaborka]

BTW, if you already have a valid license for KAV 5, you can get a free upgrade to KAV 6. See http://www.kaspersky.com/upgrade

 

[BIGFOOTPI]

Originally posted by: country2
Anyone tried it on windows2000?I installed it twice and after the reboot it wouldn't (computer)do anything almost as if keyboard was dead when I did ctrl,alt & del to let me login...thanks for my backups really wasn't a big deal but anyone else have it happen?

I uninstalled nav2002 and avg 7.1 on my win2000 sp3 box and installed this last night with no problems.

 

[Mr Bob]

NEVER HAVE MORE THAN 1 AV INSTALLED AT THE SAME TIME

I picked up a real Kaspersky license for $20 last night I don't trust AOL.

 

[kwo]

Originally posted by: bennylong
1 year is better than what I have right now, nothing!

AVG free - that's a good alternative (not to start a "My AV is better than yours" war>

 

[Mr Bob]

Originally posted by: kwo

Originally posted by: bennylong
1 year is better than what I have right now, nothing!

AVG free - that's a good alternative (not to start a "My AV is better than yours" war>

- Yeah, if you don't mind having one of the worst detection rates possible. There is no good alternative to Kaspersky, it is simply the best.

 

[slothman]

While Kaspersky probably has the best detection rates, it is kinda slow and somewhat of a resource hog. I installed 300 on a friend's machine, and I had to disable the web scanning totally because it was slowing down the internet so much it was timing out pages. And yes I did try playing with the web scan options before totally turning it off.

 

[dds14u]

Originally posted by: slothman
While Kaspersky probably has the best detection rates, it is kinda slow and somewhat of a resource hog. I installed 300 on a friend's machine, and I had to disable the web scanning totally because it was slowing down the internet so much it was timing out pages. And yes I did try playing with the web scan options before totally turning it off.

Yea that would be the trade-off.

But it's better to have at least have the ability to scan better eh?

 

[Ryland]

Thanks, I just upgraded my v5 to v6 of Kaspersky!

 

[CalvinHobbes]

The license is also exclusive to this product. The activation key you receive when signing up through the AOL website works ONLY in AOL Active Security Shield.

So I have to install AOL active security sheild to use this?

 

[Pulsar]

Don't worry, AOL still completely sucks. I signed up for their email to use as a throw away account, then went and downloaded the anti-virus.

But what's this? I log in to the mail account and it take 10 minutes (over broadband) to get into the email, and they haven't sent me the key. So I click refresh and get:

Server not found

Firefox can't find the server at welcome.mail.aol.com.


* Check the address for typing errors such as
ww.example.com instead of
www.example.com

* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.

* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

 

[jbloggs]

Originally posted by: Mr Bob
NEVER HAVE MORE THAN 1 AV INSTALLED AT THE SAME TIME

I picked up a real Kaspersky license for $20 last night I don't trust AOL.

Where can you get it for $20 ?

 

[scott81425]

how does this compare with CA EZ trust? i currently use mcafee (it's included for free with my DSL subscription) but i imagine there are better utilities out there. I may stick with mcafee, as they give me a free firewall as well, but i don't really need a firewall as i run through a router, right? please, throw some advice my way.

 

[Mr Bob]

If you are interested, PM me your e-mail and I will let you know.

 

[Mr Bob]

"how does this compare with CA EZ trust?"
- Kaspersky is the top rated in detection rates of all AV in the entire world.

"but i don't really need a firewall as i run through a router, right?"
- Your router only blocks certain things. It is always safer to have a software based firewall on top of the router.

 

[John]

Originally posted by: scott81425
how does this compare with CA EZ trust? i currently use mcafee (it's included for free with my DSL subscription) but i imagine there are better utilities out there. I may stick with mcafee, as they give me a free firewall as well, but i don't really need a firewall as i run through a router, right? please, throw some advice my way.

Here's one indepent Antivirus review: http://www.virus.gr/english/fullxml/default.asp?id=72&mnu=72

Kaspersky 99.46%
Mcafee 94.8%
ETrust 47.84%

Here's another: (On-demand comparative February 2006) http://www.av-comparatives.org/index.ht...paratives.org/seiten/comparatives.html

If you have a router a software firewall is recommended in some cases but is purely optional. I don't use them on my home or business pc's. However get rid of the McAfee bloatware and try Comodo or Kerio instead.

 

[Insane3D]

Originally posted by: kaborka
BTW, if you already have a valid license for KAV 5, you can get a free upgrade to KAV 6. See http://www.kaspersky.com/upgrade

Thanks! Just upgraded my version 5's!

 

[feelingshorter]

Originally posted by: bennylong
1 year is better than what I have right now, nothing!

As long as you get firewall at least.

 

[2canSAM]

Where is the code I am supposed to get. All I am getting in my email is a message that says this. Been there and registered and downloaded but no code, unless I am missing something.

www.activevirusshield.com to register.
Thank you for registering for Active Virus Shield!