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    Posted: 15 Feb 10 at 9:02pm
The Moo - All you need is a current account (I think) with online banking to take advantage of Barclays rather useful FREE Kaspersky offer. They also offer (for free) the Kaspersky mobile security suite for smartphones - Good for Barclays to actually provide something useful for their customers (but let's not go too far down that route).
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Looked at the Kaspersky via Barclays option and think I will go with it.

Still seems a little bizarre (to my untrained eye) to have to remove my existing AV software, go online, log into my bank account unprotected and then download the new software. Sounds like a potential recipe for disaster, but not aware of any disgruntled barclays customers who are Kaspersky downloaders!!!

Mind you have you seen Barclay's profits? Don't get me started!!
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you should be able to download the software before you uninstall the existing av. Once downloaded disconnect from t'internet, uninstall existing av, install Kaspersky, then reconnect t'internet. Kaspersky will then update and run a scan, or maybe the other way round, scan then update. You may find that it needs to update part way through the installation, if this happens reconnect so that the program can update. Kaspersky should give you enough protection while this happens.You should be ok then
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If you are using a router to connect to the internet, it should have an integral firewall that will provide some protection from viruses while you down load the AV software
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I also run free Malwarebtyes' Anti-Malware every week or so.
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Originally posted by Steve H

If you are using a router to connect to the internet, it should have an integral firewall that will provide some protection from viruses while you down load the AV software


I'll repeat the advice - download the software before you uninstall the existing one but don't click on the install button before you have uninstalled the existing. Nearly all AV's are a full download with a virus database at a point in time, they then install like a normal program and update the database post install. AVG is a case in exception in that it downloads an installer which instigates a further download of the whole program, not sure why they did that but they did.

The advice about Malwarebytes is very good too, its one of the only things out there that will get rid of the exceedingly annoying Antivirus 2009, etc, etc virus. If you've ever had this or ones of its deminutives you'll know what I mean. For your own sake if you ever get a download of this type starting, stop it asap.
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why would you run 3 OSs in parallel? - it might seem clever, but do you really gain anything? I suspect my portable would fall over and die from all of that overhead.


Off topic but since you asked - They dont run at once so theres no extra 'overhead'. The short answer is that they are each good at different things. For example I run a lot of resource intensive programs (rendering and CFD code mostly) so my XP partition is 64bit and completely stripped back to try and squease as much performance out as possible but its otherwise rubbish (very little driver support etc). I spend most of my time at the moment running linux but its a M**rosoft world and its hard to get by without a 'normal' windows setup.

...aaaand thanks for making me feel horrifically geeky.
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Watch out for free or alternative anti-malware programs if you use Kaspersky: If discovered by Kaspersky during installation, you may well have to uninstall them (Kaspersky does this for you), before continuing with the installation. Not sure what happens during those extra few relatively unprotected minutes, though.

Stick with Windows Firewall and install one AV over the other one. You'll get grief from the old AV as the new one takes over.
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By way of a postcript Kaspersky Internet 2010 has been eventually downloaded over the weekend courtesty of Barclays Bank offer.

McAfee was a complete b*stard to remove. The Add/Remove function only got rid of some of it. I then had to download a further two removal tools (and a free version of Winzip to open them)

There then seemed to be some error (can't remember what) on the Kaspersky install. I left it overnight and tried again and the following morning and it installed perfectly. Did a full scan and it appears I didn't pick anything up during the time I was online without any AV.
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Appreciate all the advice given. Many thanks.
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Glad to hear you got all sorted.

Out of interest what did you use to get rid of McAfee?
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