Question For Merc, Woody, Other Geeks

[35Pete]

My Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 went through an autoupdate the other day. Afterwards my rig progresses over time (after a bootup) to system instability. When I pause protection the lockups cease. (It will run a "Scan My Computer" scan in pause protection mode without a lockup. I am doing that now).

I uninstalled it and re-installed it. No dice.

I did the following:

Ran PC Care with System Mechanic 7.5: Hard disk error check, registry errors, mem check, all that jazz. Some of the usual errors but no silver bullet.

Ran a complete Microsoft Malicious Software Removal. No dice.

Ran startup in very stripped down mode via MSconfig. No dice.

Ran chkdsk, memory check. Nothing.

Ran Diskkeeper. Nothing.

Any ideas?

[Woody]

When you started having problems did you check your event logs to see if anything was flipping out? Going off what you said I would try the following:

1. Install Krapersky... but don't update it...let your system run for an hour or two then check your logs.

2. If you don't see anything in the logs.. update your software. Then check the logs in a couple hours.

3. If something dicks up and you find some negative event log entries then uninstall the software and send an email to Krapersky(or post on their forum) and ask them what's up. Take note of your Event ID's and messages, those will be useful to Krapersky.

I'm thinking something might be dicked up with Krapersky... or maybe a different piece of software got updated and doesn't jive well with the 'Protection Mode' feature of Krapersky. Try that and let us know what happens. :niterider

[Merc]

Woody has some good advice there. It could also be a patch to XP or just some corruption to the OS that occurs over time. Are you on XP or Vista?

[35Pete]

Woody has some good advice there. It could also be a patch to XP or just some corruption to the OS that occurs over time. Are you on XP or Vista?

Vista.

Kaspersky released a "Oops, we f'ed up" statement saying that an update may "occassionally" cause system instability.

No issue for 4 hours this am. If it keeps up I'll go with another firewall.

Zone Alarm is my next choice. $40 and is top rated.

[Merc]

Vista is just a ball of fun.

[35Pete]

Vista is just a ball of fun.

It's crap. I am re-imaging today.

Downloading all the latest drivers, backing up pictures, video, documents, histories, email, ect...

Repair didn't work, and for some reason my last restore point isn't showing up.

I might just continue to log on using Linux, keeping Vista for games only.

Fresh install. Should take hours. :(

[Merc]

Pete why don't you just load XP XP2? You can get a copy for $90 and the license is good forever. M$ is coming out with Service Pack 3 for XP very soon and supposedly it increases performance by up to 10%. SP1 for Vista doesn't seem to have any effect on speed. Newegg has about the best price. You may have to buy a piece of hardware as this is a system builders OEM package, but I doubt it. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116056