Jonathan95

Ok !!!! That's good !!!! Since I started using it i can't live without it !!!! hahaha If you want me to test it again with a clean installation I will do, but not now, maybe tomorrow.

I know but unfortunately I deleted the virtual machine. I have one main virtual machine and every time I want to do some tests I copy the virtual machine's folder, so I don't ruined it and after the test I delete it. If you didn't tried a virtual machine you should. It's very handy If you want to do tests or if you want to try a new program to test it or anything else. I use the vmware workstation player. It's free. You can install what ever OS you want. PS: it's not an ad !! I've been used it for over a decade

Fortunately I did a full scan and I restart the VM and no kaspersky4win folder in the EFI partition. I didn't check the system volume information under folder the C.

The 16mb MSR partition is useless, the recovery partition it maybe needed but in every major windows update it will recreated again. Don't do a clean installation. I have the answer. I did in a virtual machine a clean installation (with all partitions deleted) of windows 11 and installed the Kaspersky Free. No kaspersky4win folder in the EFI partition.

Mine is EFI -> C Only these two, I have deleted the 16mb MSR partition that was between the EFI and C and the Recovery partition and also I have increased the EFI partition from 100mb to 300mb I have also an external HDD and I checked it, and inside the System Volume Information there is also a kaspersky4win folder and a klBackupDepository.dat file. So, maybe those two created after a scan ???? I think that it's a possibility.

At least your's it's on the C, mine it's (was) on the EFI (EPS) partition. I checked the C:\System Volume Information on my pc too and there is a kaspersky4win folder and a klBackupDepository.dat file, nothing else from Kaspersky. I don't know why.

Finally, after a lot of searching I managed to delete the kaspersky4win folder (on the virtual machine) aslo the $recycle.bin folder that shouldn't be there with a little program called "file folder shredder 1.1" and worked like a charm. I did it and on my main machine and also worked as it should. Maybe in the future it will recreated the kaspersky4win folder but for now it's gone. PS: the pic is from the virtual machine windows as it is the pic on my 5th post.

Does anyone knows what program can I use to delete the kaspersky4win folder ?? Of course I will try it on the virtual machine first, so nothing bad can happen. I tried the diskgenius but without success.

I don't know why is in the C either but that is being on EFI partition is even weirder.

This is not a real issue, the folder it seems empty, and as I said everything works fine, but if not a Kaspersky's issue then who's issue is ?? windows ?? How is a windows issue ?? This folder created by Kaspersky in the EFI partition and that doesn't make any sense. PS: I don't think that is a Kaspersky Free issue, maybe and other versions (standard, plus etc.) creates that folder. Do you have it ?? Can you check it ?? Or anyone else ??

No clone, no dual boot, no nothing, just a regular windows installation. The D drive it's the EFI partition, I had to gave it a letter to access it, to be visible on the explorer.

I did it on the virtual machine I have as it have the same Kaspersky folder, and obviously it's there.

The Kaspersky Free version is the latest (21.16.6.467(a)) I have the easeus partition master and with that I got access to the EFI partition files, but I can't do much, I can't create or modify anything. I have a virtual machine with the windows 11 dev, and in the past I had installed the Kaspersky to do some tests, and that kaspersky4win folder is also there.

Yeah, maybe you are right, but why it's on the EFI partition, that's my question. I don't have any problem, everything works just fine, but why Kaspersky created a folder on that partition, that is i don't understand.

I didn't said that it's on the efi folder, but that it's on the 100MB EFI partition. At least it seems like that. Indeed there is a System Volume Information folder on the C partition, but it seems there is also a System Volume Information folder on the EFI partition and inside that folder there is a Kaspersky folder.