KAV 6.0

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  1. Firefighter

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    There were a lot of graphics in both of those verifying sites, what does the NOD HTTP scan do to them? Both KAV HTTP scan and especially DrWeb's SpIDer Gate, were in troubles to scan them all.

    Best regards,
    Firefighter!
     
  2. Firefighter

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    My bad. Maybe too easy site to test. Try this! :)

    Here are those results with DrWeb 4.33.2 Beta and SpIDer Gate for Win disabled.

    http://pixelpageinternational.com/ -- mine opens = 14.734 sec

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    Here are those results with DrWeb 4.33.2 Beta and SpIDer Gate for Win enabled.

    http://pixelpageinternational.com/ -- mine opens >> 2140 sec and counting


    Best regards,
    Firefighter!

    PS. My internet connection speed is.
     

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  3. Don Pelotas

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    Both loaded within 5 sec's for me with default settings.:)
     
  4. VikingStorm

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    Same for me as well. 3 and 4 secs.
     
  5. crookit

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    I was using Firefox 1.5.0.1 browser & Firefox's "Fasterfox 1.0.3" extension and Application Integrity Control disabled in KAV 6

    http://virusscan.jotti.org/ -- mine opens = 18.500 sec

    http://scanner.virus.org/ -- mine opens = 19.438 sec
     
  6. Firefighter

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    Me too.


    Here are those results with KAV 6 and HTTP scan & Application Integrity Control disabled.

    http://pixelpageinternational.com/ -- mine opens = 17.140 sec

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    Here are those results with KAV 6 and HTTP scan enabled & STREAMING option selected and Application Integrity Control disabled.

    http://pixelpageinternational.com/ -- mine opens = 28.238 sec


    Not bad compared to DrWeb with SpIDer Gate enabled.


    Best regards,
    Firefighter!
     
  7. Blackcat

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    ALL AV Web Scanners will cause some slowdown. It seems to vary from a little in Avast to alot in the OutBreakShield scanner of GData's AVK.

    The Kaspersky team have already said that the speed of the HTTP scanner will be looked at for MP1 BUT even then there will still probably still be some slowdown.

    Just look at the HTTP scanner as another additional protective layer in KAV6 and balance this against any surfing/downloading slowdown. If you find that it has a noticeable detrimental effect, you can simply disable this module ;)
     
  8. Mem

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    Same here - KAV6 default settings and FireFox 1.5.0.1
     
  9. Graystoke

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    After reading all of this, I decided to run a little test of my own. It probably doesn't mean much to the experts here, but maybe to the everyday ordinary user. I'm using IE 6. XP Home/SP2. Cable HSI.

    I used KAV 6 and NOD32 for my little test, since those are the two that I know for sure that have HTTP scanning. And I have licenses for both.

    With KAV 6, I notice no loss of speed in normal browsing with HTTP scanning enabled. When I tested it at Speakeasy.com, my speeds were way down. When I disabled HTTP scanning, my speeds at Speakeasy were back to normal.

    With NOD32, same as KAV 6, no loss of speed in normal browsing with HTTP scanning enabled. Speed test at Speakeasy showed no slow down with HTTP scanning enabled. Since there was no slow down at Speakeasy, I didn't feel it was necessary to test again with NOD's HTTP scanner disabled.

    I don't know why KAV's HTTP scanner affected the speed tests at Speakeasy so much and NOD's didn't. I'm not knocking one or praising the other, just a little observation on my part. Anyway that's my own little test. Take it for what ever it's worth. :)
     
  10. bravesrule

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    yeah i'm having same prob as gray with kav
     
  11. Benvan45

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    Same here....great speed with Nod32 all the way. Slowdown with Kav 6.0.
    I'm using IE 6. XP Pro/SP2.
     
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  12. Kilauea

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    What happens if you disable the extension fasterfox and maybe the pipelining ?


    Kilauea
     
  13. VikingStorm

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    Hmm.... enabling pipelining gets me to what FF was getting.
     
  14. Mannaggia

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    I skimmed over this thread pretty fast, so I don't if I missed it or if it isn't mentioned, but does KAV 6 have heuristic scanning? When I tried the beta a while back, I didn't notice any settings for heuristic scanning. Maybe I missed it, but I'm pretty sure I didn't. I know KAV is tops when it comes to signature detection, but I consider heursistics important also.
     
  15. Blackcat

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    The ProActive Defense module offers protection from malware which are not in the signatures.

    Further, a new heuristic engine is due to be employed in KAV in the very near future ;)
     
  16. Don Pelotas

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    Yes, Kaspersky does have a heuristics module, it's at fixed settings and it not something you can enable/disable in the GUI, you can by opening your basesfolder and look for ca.avc, that's the one.

    As Blackcat has mentioned already, a new heuristics module will be made after the 6.0 launch and will be downloaded auto via the updater, both 5.0 & 6.0 users will receive it.

    The proactive defense module will also be further enhanced in maintenance pack 1 (MP1).
     
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  17. Firefighter

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    I made some further testing with 4 different av:s in this laptop and I got these results. I made two measures, because the opening times have small differencies each time you are trying to open that site.


    Here are those results with Kaspersky 6, HTTP scan enabled and the STREAMING option selected and Application Integrity Control disabled.


    http://pixelpageinternational.com/ -- mine opens = I 28.711 sec, II 29.313 sec

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    Here are those results with Kaspersky 6, HTTP scan disabled.


    http://pixelpageinternational.com/ -- mine opens = I 17.440 sec, II 18.445 sec


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    KAV 6 first full scan = 30 min 9 sec

    KAV 6 second full scan = 3 min 4 sec
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    Here are those results with DrWeb 4.33.2 Beta, SpIDer Gate enabled.


    http://pixelpageinternational.com/ -- mine opens >> 2000 sec and counting (= unable to open)

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    Here are those results with DrWeb 4.33.2 Beta, SpIDer Gate disabled.


    http://pixelpageinternational.com/ -- mine opens = I 16.156 sec, II 16.969 sec

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    DrWeb first full scan = 49 min 4 sec

    DrWeb second full scan = 47 min 53 sec
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    Here are those results with NOD32 for WinNT/2000/XP/2003/x64 - v.2.51.20, IMON enabled.


    http://pixelpageinternational.com/ -- mine opens = I 18.734 sec, II 20.250 sec

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    Here are those results with NOD32 for WinNT/2000/XP/2003/x64 - v.2.51.20, IMON disabled.


    http://pixelpageinternational.com/ -- mine opens = I 16.735 sec, II 16.984 sec

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    NOD first full scan = 19 min 13 sec

    NOD second full scan = 20 min 36 sec

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    Here are those results with BitDefender 9.5 Standard.


    http://pixelpageinternational.com/ -- mine opens = I 13.703 sec, II 14.344 sec

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    BDF 9.5 Std first full scan = 45 min 55 sec

    BDF 9.5 Std second full scan = 42 min 25 sec


    I have to say that when I scanned this laptop, the total size of data was about 106 GB. Also my connection speed was a bit slower than I showed before, because that was a bit old snapshot, here is the current speed.


    Best regards,
    Firefighter!

    PS. Here are those results without an av at all.


    http://pixelpageinternational.com/ -- mine opens = I 14.797 sec, II 15.360 sec
     

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  18. Technodrome

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    I just tested KAV 6 and DrWeb(beta) and I must agree that their http scanners need a lot more of improvement. Both of them are slowing my dsl connection and thats unacceptable.

    My experience with NOD32 and avast! has been flawless on the other hand. Probably, because they are more mature and have been available for a quiet some time now. I believe Kaspersky and DrWeb will improve this feature and the speed in upcoming versions.


    tD
     
  19. Don Pelotas

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    The HTTP scanner will impact each pc in varying degrees, mine (a 4m connection) always get around 3,7 which is perfectly acceptable to me. for others it may be more or less.

    Firefighter, how do you use this http://pixelpageinternational.com/, because i must be doing something wrong, with everything enabled mine loads a lot faster than both the 28 sec &17 sec, step by step please.:)
     
  20. Firefighter

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    As you can see in my last post, that site took about 15 sec to open even without an av at all. My nominal connection speed is ONLY a 1m and I'll share that with my younger son's laptop, so you will have about 8 times faster connection. Unfortunately it costs about 60 € per year to double the speed each time you want to do it! :mad:

    Best regards,
    Firefighter!

    PS. I have only 512 MB RAM in this 1.60 gigahertz AMD Sempron 2800+.
     
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  21. Mannaggia

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    I went to http://pixelpageinternational.com/, to see how KAV 6 does with my PC. I'm with Comcast cable, 6000kbps. With HTTP enabled or disabled, the results were the same. The first pixels would appear in about 5-6 seconds, but I wasn't able to scroll down the page until about 12 seconds. I guess that's not too bad. I haven't tried it with NOD32. Maybe I will later.
     
  22. JerryM

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    How do you disable HTTP?
    Jerry
     
  23. Mannaggia

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    Open KAV 6. On the left side, click on Web Anti-Virus, then click Settings in the upper right corner, then remove check in box next to Scan HTTP Traffic. Click Apply, then OK.
     
  24. Mannaggia

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    Geez, I'm losing it. :oops: I completely forgot to reply to your post and say thank you for answering my question. :oops: Thank you Blackcat for that information. :)
     
  25. Mannaggia

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    Ditto to what I said in my above post to Blackcat. Thank you Don.:)
     
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