I am a long time user of Kaspersky’s security solutions.
Recently, I was looking at the "Privacy and Security" tab in the settings of MacOS 13 (on a Mac with Apple Silicon) and noticed that for Kaspersky Antivirus (Standard edition) there are 2 separate applications:
- Kaspersky (which I enabled when I installed the program)
- Kaspersky System Extension / com.kaspersky.kav.sysext.systemextension (not enabled)
The path to the second application brings me, in Finder, to Library -> System Extension and it's connected to an archive with the name "com.kaspersky.kav.sysext.systemextension".
Just to be safe I scanned it and it was not detected as malicious by any EDR/Antivirus, but at the same time I did not find many informations on it online.
My questions are:
- What does "Kaspersky System Extension" do?
- Should I enable it? The antivirus seems to be able to do full system scans/custom scans just fine and it does not ask for any more permission
- Are there any other suggestions/information on this process that could help me?
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Good morning,
I am a long time user of Kaspersky’s security solutions.
Recently, I was looking at the "Privacy and Security" tab in the settings of MacOS 13 (on a Mac with Apple Silicon) and noticed that for Kaspersky Antivirus (Standard edition) there are 2 separate applications:
- Kaspersky (which I enabled when I installed the program)
- Kaspersky System Extension / com.kaspersky.kav.sysext.systemextension (not enabled)
The path to the second application brings me, in Finder, to Library -> System Extension and it's connected to an archive with the name "com.kaspersky.kav.sysext.systemextension".
Just to be safe I scanned it and it was not detected as malicious by any EDR/Antivirus, but at the same time I did not find many informations on it online.
My questions are:
- What does "Kaspersky System Extension" do?
- Should I enable it? The antivirus seems to be able to do full system scans/custom scans just fine and it does not ask for any more permission
- Are there any other suggestions/information on this process that could help me?
Thank you so much in advance!