My Short Review of Eset Smart Security v4, NIS 2010 and KIS 2010

[LunarWolf]

Yesterday, I have the opportunity to test out the 3 suites.

Link use to test for drive by download :

http://7 7.fskn.gov.ru/

Taken from avast blog

WARNING : LIVE LINK WITH TROJAN!

Eset Smart Security
Scanning speed (full scan) : Fast
Detection :
1. Didn't stop a drive by download with Threatsense set to high.
2. Didn't pick up the trojan even with Threatsense set to high during full scan.
Memory usage (idle) : 50mb+ (quite high)
Memory usage (scanning) : Quite high (forgotten)

NIS 2010
Scanning speed (Full scan) : Slower compare to Eset
Detection :
1. Didn't stop a drive by download with default settings.
2. Didn't pick up the trojan with Default settings during full scan. I stop full scan as it took too long. That time, ~100k files have been scan.
Memeory usage (idle) :~20mb
Memory usage (full scan) : ~250+mb. (That is a lot even with cleanmem cleaning out memory every 5 minutes)-More than that of Eset and KIS 2010.

KIS 2010
Scanning speed (full scan with detection set to high) : ~ 45 minutes
Detection
1. Detect and block the drive by download
2. Didn't do a scan for that trojan since it could block it.
Memory usage (idle) : ~30+mb
Memory usage (full scan) : ~70-100+mb

OS : Windows XP SP3 32bit
RAM : 4gb
Processor : Pentium Dual Core E5300 @2.60GHz

I am not bias but I wanted to see how the other suites perform since I am always on KIS 2010. I wouldn't try Norton again in the hurry but Eset maybe...

[SomeOne]

good review (coz if i see other AV is better than KIS, then I'll say "bad review" )

[hellnoire]

50 Mb, 70 Mb, that's lighter then most. Believe it or not, but Avast uses around 75 Mb by itself.. chances are good, I'm putting Avira on my gaming/ server desktop. 250 Mb's a bit heavy though, not as bad as it was, but still, not amazing.

[LunarWolf]

I forgot to mention I don't like Norton as it deleted one of my crack without asking me.

People said the new Norton is light, I wish to differ. it is not light especially during scans!

Eset and Kaspersky perform better during scanning.

[Murphy]

Hi,
Thanks ,,LunarWolf,, for the info .

,, KIS 2010
Memory usage (idle) : ~30+mb
Memory usage (full scan) : ~70-100+mb ,,
I agree with you .... is almost the same at me .

,,Scanning speed (full scan with detection set to high) : ~ 45 minutes,, - here i thing that's depends on the HDD capacity ( please correct me if i wrong ).
Concerning my :
- OS : Windows XP SP3 32bit ;
- RAM : 4gb ( DDR2-Dual Channel ) and
- Processor : E2180 .

I'm glad that you confirm me some things about KIS 2010.
Best regards !

[safeguy]

250MB during scan? That isn't light...there's no way NIS going to my PC if that's true. KIS and Eset memory consumptions are not bad though...

I will just stick to Avira for now.

[alpha1]

Tested the link with my KIS 2010 and it blocked it.
And the memory usage of KIS 2010 when it is idle is 20MB both avp.exe processes.

[LunarWolf]

Kaspersky didn't detect the second link.

http://kings field.edu.sg/

WARNING : Infected website

[ashboy039]

great review.. though i am currently using bullguard.. hmm.. can you maybe include bullguard 8.7 in your testing?