Just installed Kaspersky on a friends two Vista Maschines. It F**K his HP machine up by changing a setting so that the Vista license key was invalid and couldn't reactivate it. In the end I had to do a clean install from a OEM disk and get rid of the HP crap.
The other machine was a Packard Bell this wored ok, but I suspect this was because it also had a clean install with a OEM disk to get rid of PB's crap.
Why PC manufactures load their machines with useless junk I will never know. For christ sake who the hell is going to want programs by default. They should just pre-load with the OS and give you the option for what applications you want to load.
One more thing Kaspersky will require a HOT FIX that you have to ask Microsoft for if your using Vista (unless it's in the new service pack). This fixes "Out of Memory" errors that you can encounter when trying to "group" copying files that exceed a total of 16400 after this then it's best to reboot or face unpredictable results like the BSOD.
Here's a link about it http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=829
The other machine was a Packard Bell this wored ok, but I suspect this was because it also had a clean install with a OEM disk to get rid of PB's crap.
Why PC manufactures load their machines with useless junk I will never know. For christ sake who the hell is going to want programs by default. They should just pre-load with the OS and give you the option for what applications you want to load.
One more thing Kaspersky will require a HOT FIX that you have to ask Microsoft for if your using Vista (unless it's in the new service pack). This fixes "Out of Memory" errors that you can encounter when trying to "group" copying files that exceed a total of 16400 after this then it's best to reboot or face unpredictable results like the BSOD.
Here's a link about it http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=829