As I say it's something I've noticed over a couple of years.

Back in the conficker days kaspersky didn't keep up with the various variants of it. Sophos and Avira both found it at the time. Machines were still infected with Kaspersky installed

I'm honestly not bothered enough to talk any further... We all have our opinions lets call it a day at that.
I don't like kaspersky never have and never will.

As I recall, in 2008, KLabs announced the detection of what they branded "Kido" and warned of increasing activity in the near future. I may be wrong but believe that they were the first to release a standalone removal tool.

Still didn't manage to remove it.

In reply to a post by ukhardy07:

never have and never will.

Never is a very long time.

I started with Norton. Changed to KIS and may change back at next subscription renewal. The products' features and drawbacks ebb and flow, as with any range of products by several manufacturers.

In reply to a post by ukhardy07:

Still didn't manage to remove it.

It most certainly was and is capable of removing Conficker and it's variants but of course, if Kaspersky were already properly installed, it wouldn't have to have removed it as infection would have been prevented.
Of course there are those who, despite the sternest of warnings from whatever their security software, choose to circumvent it. No useable security solution can cater for the stupidity of users.

Ok fair play I probably would switch back at some point.
Bold statement from me there.

This was as conficker was active & changing.

Kaspersky was behind some of the newest variants (as we're most antivirus).
It said it was clean when it wasn't.

I've been in the same frame of mind for a couple of years now but I can't really find anything that I'm comfortable with. I had been leaning toward the Norton/Symantec range but a few machines I've seen over the last couple of months have put me right off it. G-Data looked promising at one point but that seems to have gone backwards.
I think I'll be using KIS for as long as I can configure it to my purposes and not the vendors tastes. However, that does seem to be becoming more difficult with every release.

Edited by Deadbeat (Sat 27-Apr-13 22:50:52)

Well, you were using a different Kaspersky to the one I and many others were. It was one of the few solutions that actively monitored and actually forecast the variants:
Kido
Kido.bt
Kido.dv
Kido.fx
Kido.ih
Kido.ir
Maybe you were running with heuristics disabled?

Anyway, this has gone far enough off topic. If you wish to discuss the shortcomings of various security solutions, feel free to start a new thread in the relevant section.

Edited by Deadbeat (Sat 27-Apr-13 22:49:25)

Jan 2014 until I renew (two year sub).

Not happy with KIS and FF incompatibilities (URL advisor, anti-banner, virtual KB). Both blame each other.

Also, I don't care for KIS's default state in a license issue to be 'unprotected'. With Norton, it at least stayed protected to the last update.

I'll start looking around December, and might consider others too. AV Comparatives and top-ten reviews will be first points of call.