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Thank you for your reply. Wow, a ‘registry hack’ and uninstall seems a lot to get this back to where I am in control of my own settings. Very grateful for the detailed instructions. I just shut down Total Security altogether. I don’t visit questionable sites, and am very careful with opening attachments already. Things seems smoother with it off. I did find the Password Manager was a separate install, and uninstalled it (though I did NOT authorize it to be installed in the first place - another negative). I only have a few months on the subscription left anyway. Seems to be a trend of many companies following in the draconian footsteps of Google and ‘seizing’ control from users for company interests costumed ‘for our own good’. Multi Step Authentication is another insidious trend, especially now in banking, being ‘forced’ on users without option (Google Nest). I will be looking for other AV software. Too bad, I thought Kaspersky was nice 3 years ago when I started. Corporate siege of user control in the name of ‘security’. Thanks again

KTS Application Version: 21.3.10.391a OS: Microsoft Windows 7 x86 Service Pack 1 Build 7601 My Total Security use to update only manually, when I chose to do it (I preferred that setting). Now, it is updating automatically, and there is no way to stop it in settings anywhere. I don’t know if this was deliberate, but find it hard to believe that a company would arbitrarily seize setting authority from a user. Two days in a row, on startup there is an update which includes installing Kaspersky’s Password manager option in the task bar. Yesterday, shortcuts to Safe Money and some other thing. I know I can use these, and have opted NOT to, yet (especially Password Manager) seems to be pushed, which now makes me uneasy. Taking my control away from software updates and installing things I don’t want on my computer is somewhat like the very thing I got Kaspersky to protect from. (I am NOT talking about virus definitions, THOSE are the ones I DO wish to keep updated, of course). How can I stop Kaspersky Total Security PROGRAM SOFTWARE (NOT virus definitions) from auto updating? How do I stop Kaspersky from continually loading the Password Manager link (presuming accomplishing the above question doesn’t stop it)? Thanks for any direction