pkphilip

At work, I use Kaspersky for AV. Kaspersky is still bad on firewall and spyware, for that I use Windows Defender. There are always stuff that Windows Defender could find and Kaspersky can't.

For home, I use Symantec Endpoint Security. It is basically a Norton 360 (less the system backup/optimization) with lots of advanced yet simple features. I will get a screen shot of the memory usage tonight because the previous version (Client Security) used about 25-30MB of RAM. Endpoint seems to use way less.

Still, if you use Vista, you will most likely have 2GB of RAM and Dual Core. Performance hits become very insignificant.

Philip

pkphilip

lol.. I have UAC turned off caz it produces more false alarms than my firewall.

Philip

pkphilip

Avcast is the one with the smallest resource consumption. Norton is good for most people as they are the cheapest all year around.

Kaspersky does update many times a day, and you need to renew by paying them every year.

Philip

pkphilip

For the UAC, you will get one of this in the course of using Vista normally:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80sWifG40B0

Philip

[ 本帖最後由 pkphilip 於 2007-12-8 17:14 編輯 ]

pkphilip

I remember Symantec used to have UAC like features in a few of their older security suites. I guess MS figured it would be better to have UAC on Vista.

As a power user, I need to go to Control Panels and access system level applications like Group Policy, Console Management etc on a regular basis daily. UAC warning happens in pretty much in every System Property pages. Many of them I feel is un-needed at all: Why need UAC access for re-checking Windows Experience Index or even Device Manager? Why need UAC for copying files to the guest shared folders? Wouldn't it be better to request permissions only when settings were changed? The most annoying part with Vista is the "administrator" option, why do I have specifically choose to "Run as Administrator" when I am already logged in as administrator?

I understand it's nice to have some more control, but to me it's more of an annoyance and counter-productive when I am servicing machines that run on Vista. Also, based on customer feedbacks, they get confused so much with UAC warning even they are doing legit things like installing Printer drivers. Installs tends to screw up because people click "cancel" as they are afraid of clicking "continue".

Mac does the UAC function better by only prompting when settings are made to the system. With Leopard, you can lock down the settings in Administration mode, until you want to unlock them to make changes.

With a comprehensive suites from Symantec, UAC seems to become unneccessary as the security program will prompt you for awkward changes in the system.

People these days seem to beg manufacturers to downgrade their systems to XP. Where in my case, I am running dual boot because Vista is faster than XP in my desktop. It is however restricted to DX10 gaming only.

Philip

pkphilip

Just installed Norton 2009 and Kaspersky 2009, both work equally, just still spyware/malware detection is still no good compare to dedicated software like Malwarebyte.

Both Norton and Kaspersky uses a lot less resources than before and they run amazingly fast on Vista.

Also, you can use your existing license to upgrade to 2009 for free. For Norton, just download the trial version, then it will automatically use your existing license. Kaspersky need to click onto "Free Upgrade" on the site to do so.

Philip

[ 本帖最後由 pkphilip 於 2008-9-9 22:32 編輯 ]

pkphilip

wow... old thread.

Malwarebyte is spyware/malware only. I suggest Avira for AV scan and use Malwarebyte once a while is all you need.

Philip