Kaspersky Update error, and fix.

Mele20
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join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI

reply to guitarzan
Re: Kaspersky Update error, and fix.

Yes, I think those who had auto updating every half hour or every hour were obviously likely to get the problem file and those of us who set it to update every 5 minutes had an absolute certainty of having the problem while those who do manual updates had probability on their side that they would not happen to do an update while the file was on the servers. So, in this case my settings were not a good thing! (I even mentioned that in my thread at the KAV forums). I was particularly affected by the 5 minute setting because it would try to update every time it started and I had very little chance to change any settings before it would crash. Someone who had it set to update every half hour, I think (although I am not sure), would not have had it try to update every time it started although if those folks hit the bad update then I think the behavior would be the same as if set to 5 minutes as KAV would try again on restart because what it got was bad initially so it would be in a loop so to speak trying to get a good update over and over. One thing I don't quite understand is that some folks got a message saying KAV had disconnected and telling them to start it again. I got no such message and my KAV RESTARTED on its own over and over and over until I managed to exit the program from the right click on the systray icon. I wonder why mine restarted on its own and others had to manually restart theirs? Plus, I had popups from ProcessGuard, Microsoft, etc. to deal with also which complicated my being able to have time to change settings in the GUI before crashed again.

You don't need to have KAV scan ANYTHING after updating. Mine does NOT scan startup objects or anything else after it updates except I have kept the setting to allow it to scan quarantine after updates but usually there is nothing in there so nothing for it to scan. I turned all the rest off, as like you said, it is sort of pointless to have it scan startup, etc. 18-24 times every 24 hours. My computer is idle mostly just when I am sleeping, but I agree that if your habits are such that there are long periods during the day when you are not on the computer and it is idle that you may not want to have KAV updating. You might set it to update every 2 hours or 3 and set it to not scan startup objects after updating.

You will need to set it to Custom and then configure your settings as you want them. I have everything set to Custom so that I can configure much like with KAV 4.5 which was heaven to me as that was greatest AV ever...let me configure minutely and you pretty much have the same control if you put Scan and File Antivirus both to Custom Security levels and then configure exactly what you want. The GUI for 6 is much nicer than for 4.5 but has much the same level of customizability that was taken away in version 5 that I refused to use. I make KAV my one exception regarding manual vs auto or set times for updating. I don't like things calling out on an auto update basis and turn that feature off in applications..except for my AV ...especially since my AV is KAV and I chose it specifically because of it great strength in its signatures and the fact that it could update every 5 minutes. No other AV comes close to KAV's signatures or the number of updates per 24 hours.

If you wish to combat "zero day" threats you either need outstanding heuristics (with low FP's) (NOD32) or you need KAV with its incredible ability to update its signatures so many times a day. KAV doesn't have good heuristics so you can't rely on that part of KAV. This is going to change soon but when it does it still will remain to be seen how much improved the heuristics are and whether or not there is an acceptable rate of FP's. Only when this is all very positive would I feel comfortable in doing manual updates or setting KAV to update only once or twice a day. If I wanted an AV that updated only once or twice a day...there are many good choices...but only KAV has this incredible response time for new signatures. Why not take advantage of that is how I reason.
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