Help resolving host

[Aoi Magi]

hmm, then I am out of ideas...

[emjay]

I've installed Firefox now and though it has the same problem it's much more informative in saying what it's doing while the lag occurs... instead of saying 'resolving host' it says 'looking up ...kaspersky-labs.com' so I think Kaspersky is definitely the problem.

[Aoi Magi]

Kill Kaspersky,.. Kill it with fire

[account_inactive]

^^

This.

DO IT NAO!

[emjay]

Kill Kaspersky,.. Kill it with fire

Then I'll be unprotected (I realise the irony  ) Seriously... should I turn it off?... then I'd have no anti-virus

[Aoi Magi]

I haven't used any antivirus in over five years, though I am on linux and not windows, but still, you don't need an antivirus to babysit your browsing habits. Get no-script, ad block plus, and wot addons on your browser, and create a live disk of your antivirus and use that to check periodically like over the weekends or such. It'd be much less resource hungry and lot less problematic

[emjay]

Okay well disabling it has solved the problem in both Chrome and Firefox   But now I'm without anti-virus and feeling vulnerable   I think I'd rather turn it back on and accept the lag... at least for the time being... since I at least know what the problem is now.

[emjay]

I haven't used any antivirus in over five years, though I am on linux and not windows, but still, you don't need an antivirus to babysit your browsing habits. Get no-script, ad block plus, and wot addons on your browser, and create a live disk of your antivirus and use that to check periodically like over the weekends or such. It'd be much less resource hungry and lot less problematic

Nothing at all? I've always bought into the idea that you need it, running every second you're connected to the net... but are you saying that's not the case? I wouldn't use anti-virus on Linux or Android but I've always been led to believe it's pretty much essential for Windows. I'll try and decipher that cryptic message and follow your advice 

[emjay]

Magi, I don't suppose you know of any Linux distro's that are optimised/have support for SSD's? Cos I'd consider going back if I could be sure about that... but at the moment the plan is just to go back when Win 7 support runs out. And does Skype work properly in yours... can you do video? (I know you don't do video, but can you do video?)... cos my dad, on Linux Mint, can't... and that's a major drawback if it's a thing.

[emjay]

Okay... I've found out how to re-install the plug in... hoping it's the right one; 'Kaspersky Protection' and done that and turned it back on and the problem's back. I just wanna try and solve this particular problem before I go for any drastically different measures like having no anti-virus or setting up separate users etc as BG suggested. If I don't solve it before changing my methods it will always niggle at me... so just trying to think logically about this... it's requesting a site that it clearly can't find, evidenced by the lag and then presumably time-out, so what would cause that? Has Kaspersky changed the address of something but the program still looks at the old address? If so what's requesting it and where's it getting the address from?... is it a config file somewhere? Or is it hardcoded or what? Just trying to figure out what's happening.