[Kaspersky flooding clients with MSI files]

Hello!

We have the same problem under Windows Server 2019, KSC 12 and KES 11.3. But the Windows Defender is already turned off.

Are there any other solutions?

 

Thanks a lot.

 

Hi there,

 

I know there is a new version KSC 12.1 and KES 11.4, however I experienced this in 11.0 so I am not sure if it is fixed in latest.

Try uninstalling KES and installing KS 10 for Windows Server.

I see this more as a workaround than a solution, but test and see if it works. Worked for one of our clients.

Apologies, for not giving feedback sooner.

[Kaspersky flooding clients with MSI files]

Have an update:

 

After some investigation we found that Windows Defender had been reenabled on the system (maybe through MS update – not sure). Since Windows Defender is  incompatible with KSM we believe it was causing the auto update to fail. Unfortunately, the update engine still requested an update file every hour (at 80MB a piece) so the erosion of drive space was pronounced (took about a month to drive it to almost 0).

 

To remedy, we disabled Windows Defender, manually applied the update, and are no longer seeing the update payload spooled down. We inventoried all files in the install directory with the files signature of the failed updated and moved them off box for eventual deletion.

 

Not sure if this applies to anyone else reporting issue but may be worth a look. 

Hi Icgmurray, one of our clients are receiving the same issue as above. We have asked them to disable win defender aswell. Is there a restart or other steps involved in disabling win def?