Kaspersky AV&IS 2014 Released

I didn't see this.

Kaspersky codes bought from any of our UK stores (ie http://store.downloadcrew.co.uk), will activate across the European Union (UK, Germany, France etc).

Kaspersky codes bought from our US stores (http://store.downloadcrew.com) will work globally. But we only have KIS 1-PC listed at the moment as that's the only SKU we can get at a competitive price, which activates globally.

 

Thanks. Downloaded and installed. Works great..

 

For those still using 2013, Patch I was released the previous week with updated FF addon support and Win8.1 support:

 

Patch (d) has been released for 2014 versions through automatic updates. Anti banner still won't work with standard user accounts. Everything else works fine for me in windows 8.1 pro 64 bit. The latest installers have patch (c) which can be updated to patch (d). Latest versions can be downloaded from -http://products.kaspersky-labs.com/-

 

Could any of you guys using Kaspersky IS 2014 (14.0.0.4641d), Chrome or Chromium browser with all Kaspersky add-ons/extensions enabled (except anti-banner and on-screen keyboard) try to visit this page to see whether it totally chokes your browser:

hxxps://forums.freebsd.org/

Every time I visit the freebsd forums, my browser slows to a crawl. I haven't seen this issue with any other site, and I've observed it on two different machines. Really strange.

 

I tried it with Chrome and KIS 2014 (patch d) and it seems to work fine. Maybe you have another extension that conflicts?

 

fresh win8.1 install, no other extensions installed - updated, installed chrome and kis, updated kis, rebooted and chrome dies when visiting freebsd's forum. enabled additional logging in kis, but it's largely worthless for debugging web av issues. oh well.

 

I have the same problem with Chrome installed and all KIS2014 extension enabled.
twitter.com becomes unresponsive, m.twitter.com (the mobile version) works without problems.

 

Sigh. Well, at least someone else has the same issue.

 

...and it's not me. The only thing I have really changed from defaults is that I have enabled the Anti-Banner module. Maybe it makes a difference and maybe it doesn't, but as I don't have the problem it's the only thing I can offer.

 

...I gathered as much since you said you didn't have an issue loading the freebsd board.

Tried enabling the anti-banner module, but it didn't fix the issue.

Also was able to reproduce issues with twitter.com vs m.twitter.com. Opened a support case, but I'm not too hopeful.

 

Hi can anyone please tell me do i have the latest patch?

http://i.imgur.com/l8TZu7x.png

 

No, you don't. The latest patch for KIS/KAV 2014 is (e). It should be available to everyone now.

 

1. How to get it?

2. Do i have very old patch?

3. What does patches improve exactly?

Thanks.

 

1.- Just will receive it automatically with standard updates.

2.- Your KIS2014 will stay with patch C until You get the new patch E. Once You reboot Your system letter E will appear.

3.- http://support.kaspersky.com/10235

Regards.

 

http://support.kaspersky.com/en/10045#block2
http://support.kaspersky.com/en/10045#block3

Either of those should do it. If you choose the second method you can see directly if it downloads a rather large update. Then you should reboot. In case of Windows 8 (hybrid boot), you should do a real restart and not a shutdown.

Most recent patch is (e), you have (c).

Tons of bugs and performance issues. You should always run the latest version as soon as it becomes available.

 

I tried manually updating, i still dont get the patch, what gives? thanks alot btw.

 

Patch is progressive delivered around the servers, be a bit patient

Regards.

 

I have been using Kaspersky Internet Security (KIS) for many many years. For me KIS was the best! I never considered any other product.

Recently I switched to highspeed FttH (300Mbps).
Download speeds very very unstable, jumping up and down and most of the time did not get much higher than 150-200Mbps.

Other users, with the same provider, using the very same test, show downloadgraphs of 300+ steady in a straight line, nothing below that.
For almost two months.. I have been puzzling, changing settings, changing browsers, changing lanports, with, without router, communicating with my ISP and other people.
It wasn't my modem, because someone with a laptop connected to my modem and using my router got 300+ without problem.
My ISP and an expert were involved, hundreds of tests, driver updates, you name it. No solution and it seemed I had to live with it...

At one point in time, for one reason or the other, I uninstalled KIS 2014 and installed NIS 2014.
I did a speedtest and got 320Mbps/s - downloadgraph showed a straight line.
Could not believe my eyes and did the test over and over and over, not a single one below 300.
With KIS 2014 I should be happy with 200 - actually, the lowest speed recorded was.. 25Mbps ! (speedtest.net)
With Norton 90% of the speedtests are above 310Mbps... (the other 10% are 290+)

Really donot want to 'smear' Kaspersky, it definitely is a good product, but I have no idea what has been causing the problem.
I have a license on both products, KIS/NIS and can compare the support-services now.

They Norton support is soo much better than that of Kaspersky!

For instance:
1) have had two things that required support from Symantec, both were solved in a chat sessions within a few minutes! really..
2) in the past I had a few support questions to Kaspersky (created tickets): Kaspersky never, never replied!
Normal questions, like: how much would it cost to upgrade an existing 3PC to a 5PC license.They simply donot reply even not on a reminder. They rather close the ticket and send a request to 'rate the answer' afterwards.

Another example:
in the past I uploaded a suspicious file to both Norton and Kaspersky. Both confirmed receipt. Norton got back with feedback, file was okay. Kaspersky never reverted.

With regards to protection, I assume both products are quite equal.

In case of suspicouls file, I also use the VirusTotal website.

Just my 2cents

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The phased launch of the patch is over, it should be available to everybody now.

It's probably the web-anti-virus module, which is actively and heuristically scanning your data stream. The faster the connection, the worse the effect. I'd rather have deactivated the web-anti-virus and stayed with Kaspersky but I understand your choice.

Technical support is definitely not Kaspersky's forte.

 

I guess that is to avoid infection whilst visiting websites..??
If so.. isn't that something a good security suite should do?

Am no expert, but would I then not run big risks?

Norton has something like Browser Protection, which is about the same I guess?

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later:
when doing a Google search :
site:forum.kaspersky.com "KIS 2014" "internet speed" problem

indeed, lots of other complaints.
when reading thru the forum posts, it usually ends up with asking to send a gsi report and.or send it to support dept.
(equals: no solution, neither from the forum, nor support. Maybe one day KIS will have fixed that)
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People always tend to think that without a web-anti-virus they are going to get infected whilst visiting websites and without a mail-anti-virus they are going to get infected through e-mails. This is not true.

If you download something through the browser or the e-mail program, the file-anti-virus will scan it anyway. It doesn't make it more secure if the web-anti-virus or mail-anti-virus scan it with the same techniques while downloading. Further, if the file-anti-virus wouldn't have detected it, the web-anti-virus and mail-anti-virus wouldn't have detected it as well.

Of course you can argue that, if you block a host, it doesn't matter which malware it serves, because it doesn't reach you anyway. This is a valid argument, but not for stream scanning. You can block hosts without stream scanning and performance impact with simple blacklists. On top of that, good luck with trying to blacklist TEH INTERNET.

Regarding Kaspersky products:

If the download is executed, even more sophisticated methods come into play, like the system watcher module, which can detect malware by the changes it makes to your system and it can revert those changes.

Then there is Automatic Exploit Prevention, that detects and stops a vulnerable application's attempt to download and execute a malicious payload Though the term "prevention" is completely false, because most of the exploitation has already gone through successfully, if it comes to the stage of downloading and executing a payload.

KIS 2014 further has a feature called Trusted Applications Mode, which is the suites default-deny feature. It should block the launch of all unknown or untrusted applications from the get-go. That alone is more powerful than file-anti-virus and web-anti-virus combined.

To sum it up, even with web-anti-virus or mail-anti-virus completely disabled, Kaspersky products offer rock solid protection, certainly better than most of the competition.

 

Thanks all for the help, imho this version of Kaspersky regarding protection is at least 2x better then anything else i saw im my life, dear god what a combo of amazing 0 day protection layers, its amazing. And for the record, believe it or not, it made my boot like 10-13 seconds faster then Avast/Norton, don't know how this is possible lol.

 

I'm on 840 EVO's in RAID 0 mode, and having measure boot time with and without KIS 2014, the delay added by KIS is less than a second. Enough to say it was just margin in error in my testing.