ENIAC 2

Is there any update on this. I would love to download Brave to replace the Firefox I've been using for several years now and it is "BREAKING" and causing My Windows to go crazy when I use it. Every thing's fine with Edge but MS has ended support for that on my Win 8.1 machine that I'm not ready to throw in the dumpster. Thanks for any info you can provide, Frank

Hello Igor, I’m running Total and it just updated to v2.3.10.391 without my knowledge. That causes the hair on my neck to raise up. Does this workaround you posted work on Total also? Thank you Frank PS. I have my conspiracy theory why Kaspersky made it automatic but that gets into politics so I’ll leave it alone. 1984

Thanks again Flood., I had a 1TB backup drive for my old HP XP Media Center machine but the backup software doesn't work with 8 or 8.1. Planning on buying a new backup drive but gotta wait to get some medical bills paid down. Looking hard at the Passports.

I looked in my settings and in backup and restore the option to automatically backup is enabled but there's no way to see what's being backed up. It's backing up to my Google account. I'm not all that techy so I'm still lost on this. I saved that link you posted and going to send it to my phone and set up backup. Great advice to remove my SD card before hand. I'll let you know how it goes. Farnk

Hello Flood, I haven't set a backup on these phones yet. It seems like i should be rather easy but to be safe I'll take it to Verizon so they can assist in doing it. Hopefully they will be able to remove the bloatware and especially the McAfee. I'll post back to you. Thank you

The apps I'm referencing are all preinstalled bloatware. Even the McAfee which is called "Safely - Security & Privacy" was installed by either Verizon or HTC. I can disable it or uninstall updates but haven't found a way to uninstall the app. Others like Amazon and Amazon Kindle we have no use for. To be honest, I have no use for Bezos period. There are others like some Google apps and Slacker radio, Zoe and Panda Pop. No idea what they are for and don't care. I have them all disabled but like the McAfee, can't figure out how to remove them. Don't know if I want to go as far as wiping the phones and starting over. I'm confused about your "full backup of everything, clean up ph, install software of choice". I guess I could take them into Verizon and see if they can remove them. Maybe they'll feel sorry for me and give us new phones since these go back to BC LOL.

Well, if I put it on my phone I guess I will remove the DDG. As far as the McAfee, it seems the only thing I can do is disable it. It doesn't have an uninstall option. There's a mess of preinstalled apps I would love to remove but can't. Thanks Flood, Farnk

Thanks for the wealth of information Flood, it has helped a lot. I agree with you on the not being able to disable the KISA. The phones have that worthless McAfee. I didn't think to disable or uninstall it. I guess I'm used to Kaspersky notifying me to do that. I was under the same impression that KTS could be installed on android too. It would be nice if they would clarify that on their website. I'm running DuckDuckGo on my phone and am pleased with it. It stops trackers and ended all the annoying popups. Now to decide which I want more, KISA or DuckDuckGo? I will post back with any more improvements. Thank you again for your help. Farnk

Hey Flood, I opened a live chat with Kaspersky and the lady was very helpful and helped me link the KISA to My Kaspersky KTS account and I was able to activate the premium using my KTS key. I didn't know that KTS wouldn't work with android phones and that you had to run the KISA. She also reminded me to clear all the browser cache and cookies to see if that stops the porn messages. So far she hasn't got any. BTW, the premium didn't find any malware either. I guess I'll put it on my phone next since I still have two unused keys left. Anyway, thank you for pointing me in that direction.

Thank you for your response and the KISA links Flood. I decided to attach the phone to my PC after I posted the question and got the same thing you did, it doesn't recognize the phone as an external drive. The phone is my wife's phone and she has only 877mb free space and the KISA requires only 150mb free space so it should be good o go. Going to give it a try because the Verizon McAfee security that's on the phone is worthless. I've been running Kaspersky since 2007 and have never had any issues with both the machines I've run it on. I'll post an update as to any success. Thank you for the info.

I have an older Verizon HTC 525 android phone with only 8 gb total memory and and maybe 2 gb of free space. I need to scan it for a virus or some other malware because I keep getting porn notifications on it. My question is if I can scan the phone as an external drive with the KTS 19.0.0.1088e I am running on my desktop PC without causing any further damage to the phone? Thanks for any help you all can provide. Thank you, Farnk