The reason I use kaspersky free was:
Simple, not annoying.
Alyac? no.
Ahnlab? Annoying ads.
Avast? Annoying self-ads.
I use Razer Vasilsk V3, and kaspersky’s recent update put suspicious driver at my mouse and it broke, also kaspersky was broke itself…
Fuck the kaspersky and free antivirus, I am going to get a norton.
EDIT : i use bitdefender now, yes norton is crap
I am kaspersky user since 2010 and I’ve never get any kind of issue.
Bro switched from FREE Kaspersky to PAID Norton.
Usually when you pay for something you expect an upgrade, but this is a downgrade to an objectively worse AV.
I am not going to say you are wrong, and that you should stick with Kaspersky but Kaspersky is a great AV, and I haven’t seen any issues with it personally. Ads can be disabled; you just have to dig through the settings.
If you are going to switch providers, use Bitdefender Free or Microsoft Defender with DefenderUI. Microsoft Defender has gotten a lot better in recent years. If you opt for Defender, and don’t use Microsoft Edge, just be sure to install an extension like Bitdefender Trafficlight to protect your browser from phishing attacks; as Microsoft Defender limits its phishing protection to Microsoft Edge.
Bitdefender has far less false positives than Microsoft Defender. It is also very lightweight when it comes to CPU usage, and allows you to disable notifications within its settings.
ESET is the top-rated consumer AV when it comes to the fewest false positives. Norton is extremely expensive for what it provides and is known for false positives.
With any AV that has advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning behind it you are going to come across false positives. SentinelOne is even more advanced than Kaspersky and there is a lot more whitelisting involved.
While you don’t want an AV to break your system, you want it to have zero trust in any running process so when it finds malicious behavior it simply doesn’t block it because the driver is “signed by Microsoft”. Modern threats know this can get around legacy AVs and thus process-hijacking is more prevalent.
If you find that your AV is “breaking” and blocking items you know are from a trusted source and not malicious, you can try repairing your AV or switching to one of the providers i listed above.
For reference, here is AV Comparatives’ false positive report: https://www.av-comparatives.org/tests/false-alarm-test-march-2023/
kaspersky to norton is wild lmao
Yeah… I paid for Norton given the fact that it was considered “The best Antivirus in 2023” by many platforms, and I had to nuke that shit out of my PC.
I spent months trying to find out why in hell all of my background apps were lagging, and my PC was slowing down even tho I bought a new beefy rig.
Turns out it was Norton’s “Optimizer” that would make everything that wasn’t my focused window, run in a single CPU core.
Now I get it why so many people hate it. Fuck that trash.
Kaspersky completely DESTROYED my audio input driver. It took an entire week of troubleshooting after uninstalling that Russian malware to make my mic input work again.
Fuck you, kaspersky.
For me it’s Kaspersky’s totally unethical use of the “Auto-Renewal” feature and how difficult they make it for the consumer to cancel their subscription. I switched to Bitdefender and thought that I had canceled my subscription but the auto-renewal was somehow still in effect. I think I caught it in time, but the way these guys do business now, I won’t be sure until after June 9.
I paid for a year and whith in one month I lost 1 feature a week and had to reinstall app and delete old one 3 times to get VPN back finally I canceled and received a refund. Very schetchy thinks kept occurring with only fix was Uninstaller and reinstall
To much time involved in this bullshit
Sophos used to be good. Mostly a corporate AV company but they have a home version. They actually have a good Anti AV/Disassembly group. 30 day free trial.
Personally I just run Ublock and sometimes Microsoft defender if I feel like it. Right now just Ublock.
I’ll do whatever the fuck i want.
Here I go again. I have Kaspersky Plus., & I’m finding that Kaspersky will allow me to access some sites that are on my safe list, but when I need to sign in to some of those sites, my credentials don’t work. In order to get full access, I have to change my p/w., then sign in, BUT the big secret here is that in order to get past the sign-in page, I have to use the vitual keyboard. This is ridiculous!!! Can anyone suggest what I do to stop this from happening??? I have gone into the tech support of Kaspersky but they ask me to send things to them that are way out of my realm. I think when it comes time for renewal, I’ll just might give Bitdefender a try.
I’ve been using Kaspersky since 2009.
no problem or whatsoever.
I’ve had paid Kaspersky for many years now and never ran into any issues whatsoever. It had a good virus detection with a very tiny performance cost. But hey, you do you.
Since you talk about drivers I suppose you are on windows. If you are, you need no antivirus but Windows Defender. If you have to open sketchy stuff, do it in a VM and scan them on virus total. Same for links/urls, just scan them on virus total. If you think your machine is infected download an exe anti virus like eset and store it in a usb drive. Then boot into safeboot and launch the AV
I just stopped using Kaspersky Premium. Not for the protection, but because for some reason it decides to freeze my Explorer.exe whenever I’m opening my 4 TB HDD (storage). It’s not like a caching feature or anything, it’s almost on every folder whenever I resume from sleep or from a regular reboot/startup.
Only Kaspersky does this.
In addition, it took me a while to figure out why Kaspersky was the only product that wasn’t automatically updating on my system. Turns out it really doesn’t like when I set my connection to Metered so that I can better control Windows Updates. All other AV’s are fine with this option, specially considering updates are very small.
So I’m currently testing other options.
I loved ESET in the past but today it’s too expensive and it’s protection is not too great.
I love Avast’s customization but they got caught selling user data, and their VPN pings compromised web servers.
Norton’s protection seems pretty good but reading this forum I noticed some usability problems.
So now I’m testing Bitdefender Internet Security. The first year is pretty cheap for me, and it’s performing very well (not to mention it’s protection is really good). So I’ll likely give it go, even though customization is almost non-existent if compared to other products.
Don’t use Norton, it’s adware and crapware, use Malwarebytes Anti-malware instead.
Personally I’m a Kaspersky paid user. I used Norton, Avast and Avira in the past and those were bad decisions (let’s just say, they let a virus run free on my pc while ever since using Kaspersky I never had any virus). I thought you would switch to Eset or BitDefender as they are and were recommended to me if I wanted to switch away from Kaspersky, by a security expert…but to go to Norton? hmm ok… I guess you do you. 
I pay for Kaspersky and never had something like this happen.
Can’t you download your mouse driver again if it is corrupted?
Good decision brother. I’ve been using Norton and it feels like a very polished and optimized product with minimal invasiveness and it’s very light on system resources. It also has a vastly customizable firewall, which I appreciate. I’m also paying only $3 for the first year on Premium subscription per 1 license (Norton Antivirus Plus)! Subsequent years will be $5 each. If anyone is interested, PM me for instructions on how to get it this cheap, it’s easy. Norton 360 subscriptions are also very cheap.
Before this I was using Bitdefender and it was a mess. Constant pop-ups, notifications about buying something, spam in the e-mail box, numerous executables running in the background with unknown purpose, overall extreme consumption of system resources, a non-working One-Click Optimizer and eventually it also messed up my network settings so that I had to do a Winsock reset after using it. Never again.
Kaspersky is a Russian product and is affiliated with FSB (Russian Secret Service). There’s a reason why Kaspersky was blacklisted by US as a risk to national security. So I’m not touching it.
As for Windows Defender - it might be good in terms of protection but usability-wise it’s a pain. It doesn’t really let you control it and changes its settings without my approval. So I turned it off.
Norton is the best one I’ve tried so far, it just feels great to use it. It also gets the highest score on av-test in terms of performance, usability and protection: