A green envelope appears in my Windows 7 system tray and it won't go away until I've clicked on it and read the news. The news items are things unrelated to my Kaspersky Free installation so I have no interest in it.
The support article below tells me how to disable the news but it's referring to menus which don't exist in Kaspersky Free. I installed Kaspersky Free today so I have the most recent version:
https://support.kaspersky.com/help/Kaspersky Free/Win21.5/en-US/137577.htm
The support page says this, however there is NO "News Notification" section: