Kaspersky slowing everything down massively

Hello,

have not posted for a while, hope all of you are well.

I was using Avira for a long while (free version) and before that Avast. A few weeks ago I saw a Kaspersky package reduced to a tenner so I got it as I was getting fed up witht he Avira 'buy me' ads every day and also it seemed to take a lot of CPU just downloading updates, or something...not sure what it was doing.

However Kaspersky appears to be as bad if not worse. I was wondering if there is a way to limit when it downloads stuff - i only update at weekends, well I set it to anyway - but every time I use the PC it holds everything up so much, while that little yellow cogwheel appears on the taskbar and I tear my hair out.

Please could someone share if they know a way around this - I wouldn't mind if I could just make it do it when I go to make a cuppa or something but it is random and frequent at the mo.

Sorry if answer is obvious, I am a dunce with these things.

Thankyou.

Have a read through the Kaspersky Forums.

I would also suggest down load & run Malware bytes and do a deep/full scan. This will find anything Avast or Avira has missed. Quarantine & delete everything it finds. Avast let through a nice cocktail of root kits and trojans recently, despite the file being scanned as it was downloaded and again before I hit install.

Or if you think that you have a infected machine, there is another good malware free 30day trial that is fully functional on xp,A-squared, you have to register it to activate it, as no license keys, detects things that malware bytes doesn't ,
But it maybe just down to Kaspersky hogging your cpu and memory for what ever reason, try disabling the modules one at a time to see if any improvement, or if you know how try with it disabled totally,trial and error,and process of elimination,
it could also be a conflict with other installed s/w,
Do you have any other security apps running other than kaspersky?

Thanks both...have not had Avast for about a year so should be OK ref that.

I don't think there is any sort of infection...scanned recently when I installed it, also no other funny business - it is just v v slow and always some Kaspersky thing going on when it is - stuff like AVP.exe, etc which I have googled and found is quite useful and shouldn't be removed. I did remove tea timer initially which seemed to help but things are still very very annoyingly slow!

Also have S&D (spybot) + spywareblaster (I think still?) and spywareguard...prob don't need all of those do I : )

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Also have S&D (spybot) + spywareblaster (I think still?) and spywareguard...prob don't need all of those do I : )

These will not help the speed of your machine, I would advise removing them all.

Ah Ok...are you sure it will be alright if I get rid of these? Does Kaspersky have inbuilt spyware etc? Sorry am eejit with this stuff!

The thing is it does seem to be slow only when there is the little K icon doing something odd. It isn't slow at other times iyswim?

Thanks for your answer.

Is it just just network slowing down with Kaspersky - I had lots of problems with Kaspersky Anti-Virus NDIS Filter and disabling them improved things no end - but on last rebuild it was all OK

Thankyou very much, perhaps it is that - not sure what 'network slowing down' means though. I have version 7.0. Thanks for the link but I can't understand how to disable it - could I do this and see if it helped, then restore it if not?

I don't know what the little yello cogwheel icon means or the written page one either...but it seems to be when Kaspersky is doing those that it goes slow. then once it finishes is back to normal good speed.

without being a kaspersky user i can't be 100% sure what the yellow cogged icon is/does, but in general it is usually a config button, it may well that the settings need justing, but if spyware s& d is running or it's associated processes are ,that will most likely be the reason for the slowness,
You can run s s&d for on demand scans but without the real time protection on, as this will most likely cause a conflict or cause hogging of system resources

In reply to a post by susier:

Ah Ok...are you sure it will be alright if I get rid of these? Does Kaspersky have inbuilt spyware etc? Sorry am eejit with this stuff!

The thing is it does seem to be slow only when there is the little K icon doing something odd. It isn't slow at other times iyswim?

Thanks for your answer.

Yes you will be fine. You need to remember that 99% of the role an antispyware program plays is on-demand (well, teatimer and spybot S&D immunization is proactive, but it's obsolete anyway), not real time. That is, by removing these programs, you won't just magically start getting spyware. Those programs you mentioned anyway are obsolete and won't keep many spyware threats from you.

So yes, remove them, and then go from there.