Kaspersky Anti Virus Software

GeneHunt · 03-03-2022 2:34am #1

In the current environment is Kaspersky a good antivirus software to have on your company?

Gant21 · 03-03-2022 2:45am

if it’s nudey carry on then yes.

Manach · 03-03-2022 10:49am

Likely better than having Norton with their the mining software.

GeneHunt · 03-03-2022 1:42pm

An interesting thing happened last night, I searched for an United Kingdom website - FIAT.co.uk, (as I had seen a UK reg FIAT pickup yesterday in Dublin and was unaware of it's existence), however Kaspersky (never did this before) blocked the site (see below message), it did load the page, but only after a good few move attempts! So hence the question I posted above. With the current environment I just think could my own Anti-Virus work against me, and stop me getting online! I know its a global company but it's origins is Russian. I am now considering moving to Bitdefender Antivirus, I used to used Norton years ago and I found it terrible - too big on space on the Hard Drive and too demanding on the processors.

Cordell · 03-03-2022 1:54pm

Generally speaking, if using recent versions on Windows and they are updated regularly you don't really need any antivirus because Windows already includes a decent one.

Now, the antivirus is a very powerful program that can be perfectly of today and it can turn into something really nasty with the next update. It can be something scummy as Norton did as mentioned before, or it can be something really evil depending on who is pushing the updates. In this particular case this is a company founded by an ex-KGB. So you decide. If you want my opinion, I wouldn't touch it with a 10 ft pole even before all this.

Spear · 03-03-2022 1:59pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118725331#Comment_118725331

And Kaspersky was correct to do so. Just like the message says, their SSL cert covering fiat.co.uk expired three years ago.

GeneHunt · 03-03-2022 11:56pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118725429#Comment_118725429

I'm not sure where your looking, but I've checked the SSL Cert for the Fiat.co.uk and it's a valid cert and not three years old.

Mav11 · 04-03-2022 12:04am

Just tried it and it hasn't tried to stop me.

GeneHunt · 04-03-2022 1:18am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118728941#Comment_118728941

Okay, thanks Mav11, do you use Kaspersky?

I'm not picking on the FIAT website, however if the SSL cert was out of date, well that's different story, but I'm just asking whether Kaspersky is a safe product to continue to use in the current environment? I don't want to get a whole political tread going here, but could the long tentacles of the Kremlin use Kaspersky to f#ck with us?

Mav11 · 04-03-2022 8:50am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118729240#Comment_118729240

I am indeed using Kaspersky for a number of years now, having given up on the rest, Norton, McAffe etc. and never had a problem with it.

04-03-2022 8:54am

Windows Defender built in is perfectly fine, all the other AV products out there only serve to slow down your computer.

Mav11 · 04-03-2022 9:02am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118729690#Comment_118729690

I imagine that any AV doing its job, Defender included, will impact on computer speed. I find Kaspersky to be one of the lightest on the system.

wandererz · 04-03-2022 9:02am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118728900#Comment_118728900

Hmm, I'm sure if you know very much about certificates.

If you look at the image that you posted you will see that it was issued by Kaspersky.

Your AV software is doing a man in the attack and intercepting your encrypted communications.

The valid certificate for Fiat.co.uk is as below

Deregos. · 04-03-2022 9:21am

Haven't used any anti-virus software in years, not since I got a pc with a Windows 10 operating system. It was explained to me that it wasn't required as 'Windows defender' was much better.

I believe that too as I've never had a single computer virus or attack since changing over.

However on earlier pc's loaded with full anti-virus software, getting viruses warnings was a regular occurrence, leading me to think this whole Anti -virus industry is . . maybe a bit of a scam?

Mav11 · 04-03-2022 9:38am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118729761#Comment_118729761

Might be. A bit like health or any kind of insurance, you buy it and hope you never need to use it. But if you need it........................!!!!!

Spear · 04-03-2022 1:17pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118728900#Comment_118728900

Fiat.co.uk and www.fiat.co.uk aren't the same site. WWW is pointed at the Akamai CDN, and has a current cert. But fiat.co.uk is left pointing at their original pre-CDN server and has a cert that expired in 2019.