Free Extra Layer of Protection To Avast!

system · 2008-01-20T02:34:12.000Z

Kaspersky Antivirus 6.0 Second Opinion Solution - otherwise known as Kaspersky Antivirus S.O.S. While they don’t recommend that you use this as your sole antivirus solution, it does play a role in your overall computer security. To give you an idea of why this might come in handy, here’s a list of four of its advantages:
Provides an extra layer of antivirus protection
Can be used in parallel with other antivirus software (no need to uninstall any anti-virus program you currently have installed)
Centralized administration - can be installed and managed using Kaspersky Administration kit
It’s free!
What’s different about this software is that it doesn’t provide real-time protection. This is how it is able to run alongside a fully functional, automatic updating anti-virus without causing problems. When you want an extra layer of protection, it is up to you to manually run the Second Opinion Solution scan.
Here’s an example, courtesy of Kaspersky’s site, which explains when this software would come in use:
If the main antivirus application running in the real-time protection mode detected an infected file and blocked access to it, then the following will be performed by Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 SOS when it starts a full computer scan task:

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 SOS will attempt to open the infected file in order to scan it.
The real-time protection mode of the main antivirus application will block access to the infected file. Therefore Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 SOS will not be able to open it.
A message informing that access to this file is blocked will be displayed in the report.
Another instance when this could be useful is if you’re trying to determine if the Anti-Virus software you currently run is doing its job correctly. If you were to run the Antivirus S.O.S. and it identified a problem, but your main Antivirus didn’t, you’ll know that you may need to find a new solution.
http://www.kaspersky.com/kaspersky_anti-virus_sos
http://usa.kaspersky.com/products_services/free-virus-scanner.php

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RejZoR · 2008-01-20T09:21:01.000Z

Stupid Kaspersky is advertising it as free even though it’s NOT. :

Vladimyr · 2008-01-20T09:48:32.000Z

Tech! Is this your dream come true… almost? ;D

RejZoR post:2:

Stupid Kaspersky is advertising it as free even though it’s NOT. :

It’s a free trial… for a whole 19 days. With respect, that’s lying rather than “stupid”? :o

system · 2008-01-20T11:22:54.000Z

Stupid Kaspersky is advertising it as free even though it's NOT

just realized after i posted it-it wasn't FREE ::) ??? :o

Lisandro · 2008-01-20T11:43:12.000Z

Vladimyr post:3:

Tech! Is this your dream come true… almost? ;D

Yes, it would be…
But I hate time-limited freeware and sharewares proposals. Again, also, I hate freeware that become shareware later…

system · 2008-01-20T15:18:21.000Z

Pay for a non real time AV,hahaha.
No thanks

Lisandro · 2008-01-20T16:21:56.000Z

Rafel post:6:

Pay for a non real time AV,hahaha.
No thanks

Indeed, stupid…

system · 2008-01-23T10:06:03.000Z

From their site:
“Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 Second Opinion Solution provides centralized antivirus scanning of workstations on a corporate network without causing conflicts with antivirus software from other vendors installed on the network.”
So, it is not free because it is for CORPORATE USERS.

On the other hand, what is completely free, is Kaspersky AVPTool BETA (based on KAV 7). It is on demand only, but it doesn’t have internal updater, you have to download a new one everytime.
You can get it from here → http://ftp.kaspersky.com/devbuilds/AVPTool/ I repeat, this is still in beta!

polonus · 2008-01-23T10:13:44.000Z

Hi Spyros,

That means that AVP Tool beta is similar to DrWeb’s CureIt, but the latter program warns you to update to the latest version each time you use it, and you can install the most recent version over the existing. Does AVP tool beta does something similar,

polonus

system · 2008-01-23T10:27:34.000Z

Hi Polonus,

To be honest, I haven’t personally tried it yet.
I haven’t decided if I should test it now, or wait 'till it gets out of beta stage.

S.

system · 2008-01-23T12:35:39.000Z

I haven't decided if I should test it now, or wait 'till it gets out of beta stage

thanks for the info Spyros :) will wait until after it gets out of beta and then maybe will try :) ??? 8)

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