New Kaspersky 2020 English available

[AntiTrust]

Anyone around here with networking experience can run LST on their networks and see products like Kaspersky and Bit Defender tank them. That's locally, within the network infrastructure, and the situation becomes much worse when outside of the WAN is measured. In gaming, an 8 fold increase in pings is the difference between life and death. In day to day use, without such products then when they are added, it becomes extremely noticeable.

As speed and reliability increase, the net performance hit from these products becomes extremely noticeable due to the finer tolerances. When you play with 15ms pings to the major game servers with <1% buffer bloat and <2ms Jitter, you can't be bloating it up with suites that try to pull an 8-20 fold increase in TCP/UDP overhead.

Everyone goes insane over the 'weight' or 'ram' use of these products, but almost totally neglect the fact they are tanking their network and internet performance.

I installed BitDefender Total Security on 2 home computers. OMG, it tanked my Gigabit internet speed! 250Mbps down / 950Mbps upload. I had to get rid of it after spending hours trying to troubleshoot the issue. I even followed their support article talking about turning off the firewall to see if that fixes the slow internet speed. It did not. Support was no help either.

I'm quite impressed with KIS. I haven't installed 2020 yet since I just got KIS19 installed. However, I have run countless speed tests over the last 5+ days, and I have yet to notice any slowness with KIS. I always get 950Mbps down / 950Mbps up with KIS installed.

KIS is much ligher too on RAM. It's using roughly around 100MB between the two running services. Bitdefender would use between 425MB - 600MB during IDLE time. Wow!

I hear nothing but good reviews about Bitdefender, but their software has always run horribly on my computers. This is the 2nd year in a row I've tried Bitdefender (I like to review from year to year) and I got the same symptoms as last year. High RAM usage and it slowed down my Internet. I guess we'll see how 2020 runs later this year! Until then, I'm sticking with KIS!

 

[shmu26]

Everyone goes insane over the 'weight' or 'ram' use of these products, but almost totally neglect the fact they are tanking their network and internet performance

If the impact on internet performance was noticeable with Kaspersky, I think people would be complaining about it. If no one notices, it must be too minor to make a difference, or maybe people have found workarounds, such as disabling scanning for encrypted connections?

 

[Andrew3000]

Does it play well with KIS?

It seems, it doesn't give me problems.

 

[blackice]

How cleanly does KIS uninstall? Do they have an uninstall tool?

 

[harlan4096]

Yes, They have an uninstall tool but I don't recommend it unless You have issues with standard uninstall from Control Panel -> Programs and features.

 

[uduoix]

Kaspersky uninstall tool can break your system restore

 

[blackice]

Kaspersky uninstall tool can break your system restore

Good to know. I always have an image for rolling back, but if I keep it more than a month then it becomes cumbersome to reimagine.

 

[cc2150dx]

Kaspersky uninstall tool can break your system restore

Kaspersky uninstall tool (kavremover) works fine with 2019 version, but breaks system restore on 2020. Go figure. I use a .reg file that fixes that issue - post by me

 

[Evjl's Rain]

Has anyone playing around with this version?
What are the major changes compared to v2019?
I'm still waiting for KSCF version

 

[harlan4096]

There are not mayor changes, at least, not visual... I guess most of the changes are internal, some revamped code in some modules probably...

 

[ZeroDay]

Kaspersky seem to just constantly refine their products instead of adding extra features don't they. They've got great products and they know it so gentle refinement is all that's really needed from version to version. Plus compatibility fixes for new Windows 10 releases.

 

[SeriousHoax]

Installed the en-GB version of KTS 2020

I did the same too but how do I verify that it installed the European Union version? The download page for 2020 didn't mentioned anything about it as far as I remember.

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

I can t figure out how to get the en-GB version of KFA ( apparently GDPR ready)
No Dutch (nl) version yet?
Can anybody help me with that?

 

[harlan4096]

During installation process You are advised, also in KSN settings, there is an additional setting to disable, but I'm still doubting that GB version is already supporting EU law

 

[shmu26]

Kaspersky seem to just constantly refine their products instead of adding extra features don't they. They've got great products and they know it so gentle refinement is all that's really needed from version to version. Plus compatibility fixes for new Windows 10 releases.

They have a new feature called Safe Kids, it is similar in many ways to Norton Family.

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

I can t figure out how to get the en-GB version of KFA ( apparently GDPR ready)
No Dutch (nl) version yet?
Can anybody help me with that?

Unfortunately it seems that the KFA versions are not there yet.
I can find the SAAS version. Kaspersky Security Cloud 2020.
Can that be installed as free version (Kaspersky Security Cloud Free)?

 

[shmu26]

Unfortunately it seems that the KFA versions are not there yet.

You can install KIS20, activate it with the trial license, and then when you uninstall it will nag you to give it another chance, and when you decline, it will offer you a downgrade to KFA. But you will only get the downgrade offer after you activated the trial license. That's the way it worked for me, anyway...

 

[Divine_Barakah]

Received patch B after a 6.9-mb update

 

[harlan4096]

I'm checking and I already have the file kis2020mp0b.msp so probably I have to reboot the system to get the letter b

 

[kaleci07]

just received patch B update