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Kaspersky Antivirus 6 Slowing Down Firefox?

March 10th, 2007 | View Comments

I just recently discovered that I had problems with Firefox showing the “Write”, “Manage” and “Comments” pages within the WordPress interface. It took much too long time to display the pages after clicking on the link. IE worked fine, though.

So, I thought about what changes I’ve made recently, and I recalled installing Kaspersky Antivirus 6 lately. One of the KAV modules is the “Web-Anti-Virus” that is supposed to scan http-headers while surfing. It was set to “recommended” by default.

After setting it to “low”, everything worked fine again.

I don’t really know if there is a close connection, but I have read several threads in the Kaspersky forum referring to firefox.

I am still using the trial version, and I am not sure wether to buy Kaspersky AV if this problem remains. Actually, I toy with the idea of maybe switching to Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Premium. I used the classic version before and had no problems, but I am missing a POP3 scanner there, which the premium edition includes.

[Update from 2007-03-12]

It seems that Kaspersky Web AV has also problems playing videos from Youtube.com with Firefox. I have disabled that Web AV feature for now. Guess I’ll try AntiVir next…

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  • Vogel

    Ich kann Dir ja nur wärmstens AVG Anti-Virus empfehlen. Hatte vorher auch Kaspersky und AVG deckt dieselben features kostenlos ab….

  • http://www.saphod.net Marco

    In der c’t 06/2007 ab Seite 142 haben sie 17 Virenscanner getestet. Generell schneidet da AVG nicht so gut ab wie bspw. Kaspersky oder AntiVir.

    Auch die PC-Welt gibt AVG keine Bestnote.

    Allerdings schneidet G Data AVK insgesamt immer ganz gut ab, aber soweit ich das sehen kann, haben die keine eigene Scan-Engine, sondern nutzen die von Kaspersky und Avast – außerdem scheint die Engine nicht die schnellste zu sein.

    Ich werde also entweder bei Kaspersky bleiben oder zu AntiVir Premium wechseln…

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