Kaspersky 2010 out

Maybe some people have noticed, but Kaspersky 2010 has been released.

Anbody with a valid license can upgrade for free - as before from KIS 7 to 2009.

One word of warning:
Kaspersky has let the graphics department loose...

Another thing, although I do not know whether its related - I seem to sometimesget very high RAM usage - however, the task manager does not indicate this is due to Kaspersky - it just happens since I installed it.
Its also possible this happens becase I didn't do a full system scan.

 

Thanks for the info. I have just installed it on my new laptop

 

where? I just went to the main website and it says in August. Please give me a link.

 

I just installed it, i dont have problem with kapersky memory usage.

 

Here you go, linky for Kaspersky 2010 products.
Cheers.

 

A little word of warning - Kaspersky hs as got a little memory leak - so you may have to restart once a day.

A little google search confirmed th ehunch mentioned in my first post.#

Its not too bad though - and seems worst if idling - also, it works well for some people, with no memory leak.

 

How can you tell if you have a memory leak and what version are you running ?

 

RAM usage creeps up constantly - but slowly.
Keep your laptop idling for several hours - or use it.

If you are using a few hundred MB more after a few hours (compard to startup) you possibly have a memory leak (excluding viruses, other bad software, drivers etc.)
I don't know more about it as I didn't research it.

You can google it if you want - KIS 2010 and memory leak.

I'm running version 9.0.0.463

 

I upgraded to 2010 and it seem to lag and bump up CPU usage to 100% many times, which has never happened in 2009. Is this a bug?

It runs fine on my laptop with just a time to time slow down but it can't hold up on my slower dad's laptop. I can feel Kaspersky is really holding down the speed of the computer.

I think it's due to 'Enabled Protection' on, but is it continuing to scan forever? I just clean installed to Win7 and only have used up about 10GB (including Win7 files) but it's scanning forever (going towards 800,000 files and still scanning). I think this seems to be a reason because when I disable Protection and leave Kaspersky on, my laptop seems to run fine.

 

It may be a bug, it may be optimization for mult core (if the old laptop is single core it'd be a disadvantage)

I know KIS 7 to KIS 2009 was a performance increase, also on a at that time 3 years old laptop (1,6GHz Pentium M and 1GB RAM) - now 2009 to 2010 on my more modern Vaio I don't think I could tell the difference.

You could try the support - let's hope its more competent than with regard to KIS blocking the webcam in ICQ 6.5 ...

 

I e-mailed the support just now. I had no problem when running Version 7 and 2009 though. Mine is Core 2 Duo P8600 and my dad's is 5xxx series (don't exactly remember the number), both with 2GB Ram.

 

people are still having some issues with it.. memory wise hopefully they will fix it soon

 

Hopefully...

Oh, and techsupport... once on a bad update on Version 7 I phoned them and got a good answer quickly.

On my ICQ webcam problem on KIS 2010 the first reply I got from tech support was regarding internet browsers.. which meant I sent them a reply ... and haven't yet had the chance to try it (due to my conversational partner not being available when I'm online) - but I didn't have to do it on KIS 2009... ah well...

 

Tech sent me a normal technical e-mail that he probably copied and pasted from manual. Erase Norton, etc... do this do that.

I'm not sure if I'll stick with Kaspersky once 1 yr subscription runs out. I bought 3-user version and 2 computers cannot even handle new version while it seems to work fine on mine with random slow down.

 

Maybe you should try 2009 then?
Download it from their site.


Another thing - in the version 7 and 2009 you cannot run a virus scan and update simultaneously.

Speaking about performnace - performance increases once you run a full scan once.

 

I think my computer is not lagging anymore, if not at all since full scan few days ago. Everything seems to work fine on my computer, but not my dad's. My dad's laptop is Core 2 Duo T5800 and mine is P8600 both with 2GB Ram. It's still bit sluggish on my dad's. I bought three user version and I still have to install one on my mom's 5 year old laptop.. oh my.

 

Good to hear

On a side note.

I read somewhere on the internet that the memory leak as fixed ni KIS 2010 but that the version number was not changed.

I downloaded the file again and installed it, there seemed to be no change (i.e. still memory leak) but recentl I left my laptop on over night and I had no (!! ) excessive RAM usage - i.e. the leak was fixed - either by replacing the fle available from Kaspersky online or via the database updates.

 

i am finding the new version way to heavy in some cases. and it really messes with you tube and media player feedback making them very choppy