How to boost download speed after installing Kaspersky 2009

windox · 06-17-08 at 02:37 AM

Since I've installed kaspersky antivirus/Kaspersky internet security 2009, the download speed of my computers become so slow. Does anyone knows how to set up KAV/KIS 2009, to boost the download speed?
Please help ......
Thanks

xaeroevo · 06-17-08 at 03:37 AM

i dont have KAV but im guessing the internet security features are slowing down your browser. disable what u dont need like phishing filters or site scanner and whatnot. also, set your updates to run at a time u want instead of constantly checking for updates. that might be slowing down ur internet speed. other than that, your internet speed shouldnt be extremely slow...

i did a quick google search, your not the only one experiencing this problem.

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http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?showtopic=64539

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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080402111700AAWHgxm

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Unchecking port 80 removes a big chunk of Web AV protection. If you want Web Anti-Virus protection against web-borne threats, enable port 80. Then post the GSI log as Whizard requested. GSI instructions, see: http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?showtopic=36444 Disabling port 80 temporarily to troubleshoot is ok, but this is not intended to be a performance boost setting.

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All anti-virus programs will slow your computer down to some degree.

That said, if you compare anti-virus programs individually on the same computer, some will be faster than others.

Anti-virus applications are notoriously hungry for processing and hard drive utilization, if you have a slow drive, and slow processor combined, you can really hurt performance using a slower (though often more comprehensive) AV program.

You may consider (if your habits are safe) not setting AV to do real-time scanning. (but doing a full scheduled scan at the end of the day / week)

AVG is (as another poster mentioned) a great free AV solution, but again every solution will slow down a computer to some degree because it has to access files and process heuristic algorithms.

KAV aside, there are many other factors that slows down internet speed which i have mentioned briefly about in another post.

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http://tehparadox.com/forum/f85/faster-upload-rapidshare-95377/#post298895

windox · 06-17-08 at 04:00 AM

Thank heaps for the advice ...

xaeroevo · 06-17-08 at 06:41 AM

welcome, hoped i helped.

dj_raver · 08-16-08 at 08:15 AM

thx for your post. having slow upload issues