So I was getting a little annoyed with the fact that Norton wasnt catching trojans in email attachments for as much as four days after their arrival. So I groused at Symantec numerous times, dropped them samples of the stuff that was getting by, and got nothing back except a belated Detected by current definitions - two or three weeks later. So I decide to try something else when my NIS license reached its expiration date. I tried Kaspersky Internet Security. OMFG is this thing a SLUG. I scheduled the full scan to begin at 5AM. It is currently (7:30PM) at 48%. Ten minutes ago, having finished dinner, I came in to check on the progress - and it presented me with a list of 55 more threats, the vast majority of which were (like the first batch, several hours ago) things that it admitted were legitimate programs - that could be used by criminals to harm your computer. Most of what it was going ballistic about was remote tech support clientware and some tools that are included with BARTPE and UBCD. The actual malware it had been finding was stuff I knew about in some old website backups from several years ago, when my sites server got hacked and *all* of the sites on it got loaded up with trojan downloaders. The stuff was toothless, given that it needed an environment here that it would never see, so I hadnt bothered to groom it out of the archives. (And Norton was smarter about being able to figure out that if I said to ignore something in File 001, it should be ignored in File 067 and File 743 and so on. Kaspersky? Not so much.) And where I told it Yeah, okay, Im done with those, go ahead and kill em, it has typically come back OVER AN HOUR LATER, hat in hand, begging for permission to remove the whole nasty archive full of horrible malware instead, because it couldnt figure out how to just extract and delete the file involved. And given said permission, and given another hour to act on it, THE ARCHIVE IS STILL THERE. And the little spinny-thingie icon in the threat list is still merrily spinnying. And did I mention that last Sunday, it asked me for permission to perform the automatic update that it was configured to do automatically, and then stalled at 17% for TWO BLOODY DAYS before I noticed? Thats it. No more Kaspersky. When the bank account heals enough to afford a pack of gum and a roll of duct tape, Im buying another copy of Norton (whose foibles are at least familiar, and possible for me to work with) and getting rid of *this* mess.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 01:39:08 +0000
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