
Kaspersky runs great when newly installed but the performance tends to degrade over time. In terms of pure performance and protection, the Bitdefender is a bit ahead of Kaspersky. Not sure how the Hitman Pro, Avast, Malwarebytes stack up. Some reviews saying one is better, then the other saying the other is better. Still I would be gaming on max settings, probably 1080p, maybe 1440, recording gameplay at the same time, and so I wouldn't want the security software to kick in and decrease performance enough to ruin the recordings.īut anyways, it seems Bitdefender and Kaspersky are both the top 2 best. Not sure how much it would slow down my new rig though ($1300 rig, i7 4790K, GTX970). It's not updating, and when I pull up Kaspersky window when it does this, it says it is just sitting "idle" not scanning or updating. Now these are trusted sites and not normally causing any problems, I am thinking it is just random times Kaspersky runs a background scan of some sort. When this happens, the task manager shows Kaspersky running, but will also show each web browser CPU usage increase from 2 all the way to 20% per browser. And that is when practically nothing is open, but when I am a few tabs of youtube videos open, CPU goes to full 100% (2.7 GHz DUAL core, 4GB DDR3 RAM) and as you can imagine, things get really slow.

I would pull up the task manager and see under process, that Kaspersky will be running in the background using the CPU at 90%.

I guess as long as it's safe it's alright, but I would prefer it to not be any present "threat".Īlso, on my current very, very low-end computer I use for web-surfing, every so often, my computer will slow down a lot (it is a low-end/weak PC). I think it just quarantines it, but doesn't remove it completely. It's been great, although sometimes it detects something minor, but it recommends to "ignore" it, instead of completely erase. Trying to figure out which security software to get for my new gaming/business/work rig.
