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How to remove certificate warning in a browser [KES for Windows]

Advice and Solutions (Forum Knowledgebase) Disclaimer. Read before using materials. This article is about Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows (KES for Windows) You may come across an occasion when instead of an internal webpage you will have a warning message in a browser if you have Scan encrypted connections option enabled. You should not blindly add certificates to a Trusted Root Certification Authorities storage just to remove a legitimate warning. Doing so ma

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How to re-register KES plugin for Outlook [KES for Windows]

Advice and Solutions (Forum Knowledgebase) Disclaimer. Read before using materials. This article is about Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows (KES for Windows) Outlook add-in failure may be related to a KES upgrade. Step-by-step guide As the first step to quickly fix majority of the issues with Outlook add-in, unregister it and register again. Here is how to do it properly: Close Outlook if opened.  Execute

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Virus Scan has not been performed for a long time [KES for Windows]

This article describes what is considered a Full Scan, which affects the KSC status "Virus Scan has not been performed for a long time". Scan task area settings There are two ways to set areas for a Scan task. Tasks started with any other settings (including Quick Scan and Critical Area Scan with default settings) will not be considered as a Full Scan.  Primary Kernel Memory Running processes and Startup Objects Disk boot sectors Local disk (logical di

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Error 27310. Failed to install the directory file for the digital signature [KES for Windows]

Advice and Solutions (Forum Knowledgebase) Disclaimer. Read before using materials. This article is about Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows (KES for Windows) Version: any KES11.* on any OS Scenario: The following error appears during the installation: Error 27310. Failed to install the directory file for the digital signature  Solution: 1. Run kavremover utility as administrator. 2. Delete KES drivers (if they were not deleted by kavremover) located

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How to configure KESL to use non-default folders [KES for Linux]

Information in this article can be used when there are disk space limitations imposed on the folders used by KESL: /var/opt/kaspersky - default KESL installation folder /tmp - default folder used to store temporary files during the scan /var/opt/kaspersky To move files located in this directory you can create a symbolic link to another folder before installation. Use the following steps: Before installing KESL:

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How to check Adaptive Anomaly Control (AAC) [KES for Windows]

To check Block action: Specify Block actions for all rules in the group Activity of script engines and frameworks.  Extract files from the archive and start the scripts.  All scripts should be blocked, popup about it should be shown. There will be new records about blockings in the local report, events and AAC report in KSC console.    To check Smart action: Host where KES is installed is under the policy applied. Specify Smart mode for all rules in the group Activi

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Tray icon appears twice or does not appear at all [KES for Windows]

Advice and Solutions (Forum Knowledgebase) Disclaimer. Read before using materials. This article is about Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows (KES for Windows) This problem has been observed in KES 11.5, but may apply to other versions as well. Problem Sometimes the KES tray icon behaves unexpectedly: it appears twice or does not appear at all (the icon next to the Windows clock). Solution Reset the tray icons: Open regedit; Go to HKEY

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How to let KS4Android update from the KUU [Kaspersky Security for Mobile]

Problem KSC and KS4Android are implemented but KSC is offline and could not access Internet. KUU can be used for updating KS for Android and distribute the update databases. But after running KUU (Kaspersky Update Utility), you cannot find actual KES for Android versions.  Solution AV bases for new KESM versions will appear in KUU UI after running KUU with empty application list.  The KUU settings should look like the following (in order to update the list of supported applic

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How to trace when KES doesn't detect malware files in Outlook [KES for Windows]

Step-by-step guide Open Outlook. Go to File → Options → Add-ins. Check add-in options for the KES plugin. Make sure that scan on receive and scan on send are enabled. If problem persists, enable KES tracing. Restart Outlook. Send e-mail with infected .doc file. Send another e-mail with EICAR. Stop traces and send them to the Kaspersky support for further analysis.

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High CPU consumption by KL processes on Windows 10 v1903 and Windows Server v1903 [KES for Windows]

Problem On Windows 10 v1903 and Windows Server v1903 after applying GPO Enable svchost.exe mitigation options, in System\Service Control Manager Settings\Security Settings, high CPU consumption by the following processes may be observed (avp.exe, klnagent.exe, kavfs.exe, kavfswp.exe). When checking if any resource consuming tasks are running, there are no ODS tasks running in KES or KSWS and no patch management related tasks are running too. This is happening because MS security config

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How to enable KESMac Nagent traces easily [KES for Mac]

Description and cautions The original scenario located on the page https://support.kaspersky.com/kes11mac/diagnostics/15299, requires a lot of efforts and manual manipulations. I am offering a bit easier and time-saving approach doing the same. Details All the commands from the original document are saved here, but placed together and being run one after another consequently; the old product logs are also wiped up in order to avoid mess: Login under root:

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KES Processing Error on Google Drive shares [KES for Windows]

Advice and Solutions (Forum Knowledgebase) Disclaimer. Read before using materials. Problem Description, Symptoms & Impact KES File Threat Protection sometimes can't check Microsoft office documents from mounted Google Drive shares, therefore generating Processing error events. This issue is caused by an incompatibility between Google Drive VFS driver and KES. There are no plans on making KES compatible with Google Drive. Workaround & Solution As a workaround, add fil

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VMWare guest BSODs with a driver related stop code after installing or updating KES [KES for Windows]

Description VMWare guest using Kaspersky products hanging or crashing due to driver conflicts between drivers used by VMWare NSX (vnetWFP.sys, previously vnetflt.sys) and Network Threat Protection component. This problem is known to happen with following versions of KES and VMware Tools: KES 11.6 with VMWare Tools 10.0.9 KES 11.6 and 11.7 with VMWare Tools 11.3.5 KES 12 with VMWare Tools 10.1.7 Troubleshooting steps Update VMWare Tools Somet

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How to add domain\site name in exclusions of KSWS Traffic Security component [Kaspersky Security for Windows Server]

Sometimes you may need to add a particular site\domain to an exclusions list of Traffic Security. Unfortunately, at current moment KSWS console allows us to make exclusions ONLY for Ports, IP-addresses, and Processes:     But we have ability to make site and domain exclusions for Traffic Security via registry workaround. To implement workaround, we need to create and fill following REG_MULTI_SZ key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\KasperskyLab\WSEE\11.0\Env

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Advice and Solutions (Community Knowledgebase) Disclaimer. Read before using materials.

The materials provided on the Advice and Solutions (Community Knowledgebase) part of the Forum result from the work of the Kaspersky Customer Support team and Forum community members. They are shared here for ease of use of Kaspersky products, deploying and configuring them. Please remember that using commands or recommendations from the articles without a clear understanding of their purpose may result in errors or system inoperability. Please note that some materials presented are not off

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KES and PF installation side effect: HIPS and Firewall rules restored to defaults [KES for Windows]

Advice and Solutions (Forum Knowledgebase) Disclaimer. Read before using materials. This article is about Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows (KES for Windows)   This article covering the specific effect brought by any PF installation for the following versions: KES 11 and higher Private fix installation on host with KES has a side effect: the HIPS (Host Intrusion Prevention System) configuration will be reset back to defaults and, since Firewall is the part of

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How to use wildcard in KSWS/KESS exclusions [Kaspersky Security for Windows Server]

KSWS/KESS use * as a wildcard character. There are multiple ways to use it. Examples Masks without paths *.exe - all files with extension *.exe test - all files with name test Masks with absolute paths C:\dir\*.* - all files in folder C:\dir\ and its subfolders C:\dir\*.exe - all files with mask *.exe in folder C:\dir\ and its subfolders C:\dir\test - all files named test in folder C:\dir\ and its subfolders C:\dir\ - all files in fold

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BitLocker management [KES for Windows]

Advice and Solutions (Forum Knowledgebase) Disclaimer. Read before using materials. What is the role of Kaspersky in BitLocker encryption process ? Basically, KES BitLocker management is a COM object that is registered in the system and changes the BitLocker component settings in accordance to the settings that are specified in the KES policy. Afterwards it stores the recovery data received from BitLocker component on the KSC side. Also, it provides error-reporting and verifies that th

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How to generate application blocking rules based on SHA256 file without source file [Kaspersky Security for Windows Server]

Description As part of proactive security, you may wish to add sha256 to block the execution of application or malicious applications without having the original source files. This article explains how to perform this action. How To Create a text file containing the sha256 you want to block. Use the AppRulesGenerator.exe app to generate an xml file: Import the generated .xml file into the KSWS policy:

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Trusted Applications [KES for Mac]

The KESMac 12 and the KESMac 11.3 patch C allows adding particular processes into the trusted section named Trusted Applications. The both filesystem and network activity of which can be ignored by the product increasing performance. Please, however, note that this could be potentially risky.  https://support.kaspersky.com/KESMac/11.3_adminguide/en-US/194142.htm Problem This article will describe a few ways to configure KES for Mac to exclude some of the software from th

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Report Folder consumes disk space more than 1 GB [Kaspersky Security for Windows Server]

Environment/Preconditions KSC - 12 KSWS - 11.0.1.897 You may find a massive increase in disk usage from the folder report under the Kaspersky folder. The size of the report folder will increase from around 2GB to 12GB, the files in the report folder have random name (like 340a13d9-2a50-4c4e-94d6-82a79d80da4b), which rapidly grows and consumes disk space. The file can be deleted to resolve the disk space full issue, which itself can cause many issues (can't log in to the server, KS

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HIKVision video monitoring does not work with Web Threat Protection and Web Control enabled [KES for Windows]

Advice and Solutions (Forum Knowledgebase) Disclaimer. Read before using materials. This article is about Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows (KES for Windows)   Problem 3d party video monitoring solution from HIKVision and KES 11.3 or more recent version, up to 12.0 When you open the URL of video web server, for example, http://172.17.64.5/ the error Playback interrupted occurs. The problem occurs because video software does not comply with HTTP RFC.  Use

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kesl-supervisor.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=203 [KES for Linux]

Description After successful installation kesl-supervisor.service may refuse to start with the following error: kesl-supervisor.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=203 journalctl -xe command provide more information related this error ***** kesl-supervisor.service: Failed to execute command: Permission denied kesl-supervisor.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /var/opt/kaspersky/kesl/install-current/etc/init.d/kesl-supervisor: 

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Linux programs remote execution using "Install application remotely" task in KSC [KES for Linux]

This only applies to KSC 14.2 and below Problem Remote installation tasks finishes with uninformative errors: Setup process error: Unknown error. (126) Setup process error: Unknown error. (2) Solution 1. Create 3rd party installation package (Create installation package -> Create an installation package for the specified executable file.) 2. Specify executable file, for example script.sh 3. Locate this package folder in KSC storage, by default %ProgramD

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