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I'm experiencing really crazy behavior with the Safe Browser of KIS18. I'm using Win7 SP1 64Bit , FireFox 66.0.3 64bit . It was working well in the last weeks/months/years, but since 2 days ago I'm only getting error messages. If I enter Safe Browser for Firefox I get this : Advanced information: As you can see, red error message about Bookmark- and History-Systems that are not functionally. Upper right corner shows a information message for the kaspersky protection add-on, if I click on it : I'm asked to activate the plug-in , but doesn't matter if I click on "activate" because this setting will not be saved. Every time I enter Safe Browser I see the same as shown above. I researched the security settings for crypto modules and certificates. Crypto-modules looks damaged, because of multiple entries, I have no rights do delete the obsolete ones , picture : The Kaspersky certificate is missing, if I try to import it , I'm getting next error , telling me I have no rights to import it : The normal mode of my Firefox is working perfectly, I can open all https / SSL sites, kaspersky certificate installed, no profile issues. I Tried mozilla troubleshooting workarounds and wanted to delete files in profile folder of safe browser firefox profile, but like before I'm not aloud to rename or delete those files. Kaspersky seems to protect this folder. I can't change possession or rights for the profile-folder in C:\ProgramData\Kaspersky Lab\SafeBrowser\kis , funny because I'm the only User set for this machine and logged in as Administrator. I still haven't found a way to delete or change this files, but I can change the name of the folder above"kis" . If doing that and starting safe browser again, kaspersky will create a new kis and profile-folder with same problems and no rigths for me to delete the files. Do I really have to re-install KIS or upgrade to KIS19 to get rid of this problem? I don't care about history/settings/bookmarks from safe browser profile , but I don't want to loose all my settings set in KIS and absolutely don't want to loose my working firefox profile or any information within it. I'm having 2 more computers on the same network and operating system, all working still well with safe browser, I can use them If I really need safe browser. But in general I would like to fix this problem on my main machine. ANOTHER BIG SECURITY ISSUE : I was able to get all these screenshots just by the clicking "print" key on my keyboard and copy into paint. Safe Browser was in windowed mode. If using microsoft snipping tool, display information is greyed out and safe browser is protected, but in this case protection totally failed! I will try to reproduce this on other systems.

Berny I checked on my Chrome extension as well and discovered I had the previous version so removed it and installed the latest then rebooted. I already had the latest Chrome but downloaded it again. How ever I now have a grey K shield as opposed to the green one on all sites and when I click on it only the grey icon shows with a line through the eye in the middle the eye plus a grey line then X then another grey line plus a box with green dots in it. When I put the cursor on it, it says Kaspersky Protection has access to the site but I do not get the options of Secure Keyboard, Anti banner etc What do I need to do? Thanks mikethebike

Hello @MREZA, Scans (scheduled or manual) & RTP are different. Real-Time Protection provides anti-virus protection. The component detects and neutralizes threats, adware, and apps that intruders may use to harm your device or exploit your personal data. Full scan Kaspersky scans the device's entire file system. A full scan helps protect your personal data and money, it detects and eliminates threats on your device (in installed apps and installation packages). A full scan also detects adware and apps that intruders may use to harm your device or exploit your personal data. Quick scan Scans installed apps. Vulnerability Scan Scans the operating system and applications installed on the computer that may have vulnerabilities that can be exploited by malware. Rootkit Scan Scans for a program or a set of programs hiding traces of an intruder or malware in the operating system. Thank you

With KIS 2018 and Windows 7 no problem insert/clikking data on VIRTUAL KEYBOARD (e.g. to insert passwords to control keyloggers) via TOUCHSCREEN. But with KIS 2019 and Windows 10 that seems no more possible ! But using the old MOUSE (who get it still ?) yes ! It's confirmed this loss of funtionality ? Eventually what the reason ? Giovanni

Hi,@FLOOD , sorry for these late replies. Busy weekend. I’m not familiar with one of the objects that was detected. It might just be a notification object that I signed up for on a website, which I’m only assuming because the words ‘Community Alerts’ are in the file name. Also it turns out I have KIS, not KAV. As for my comment, basically just know that I have not made a choice about what to do with the two detected objects I initially showed. But after that second, Full Scan I ran, there were additional objects that I quarantined some time before, which are in the exported text file I shared. I did a quick google search and N360_BACKUP is a back-up for Norton 360, which I had several years ago. I do remember making a couple back-ups for it. I don’t think I’ll go back to Norton 360 any time soon though, so I guess I’ll just delete those files. Unless there’s a better option? I have Honey, and more recently Kaspersky Protection for Chrome. I’ve had Honey for a few months and it appears to have recieved an updated a week ago. Kaspersky Protection looks like it was just added very recently? The windows alert was for user verification. It asked me to enter my password and verify the alternate email address associated with it, which I went ahead and did earier today. Was that okay to do so? I very rarely am asked to verify that information (I can’t remember the last time I was prompted to do that)

Hello Kaspersky User Grouo, today I installed MacOS Cataline 10.15 on my iMac and it seems to me that my Kaspersky Internet Security does have a problem with it. The problems are the following: Is there any working fix or do I need to wait or what is the best to do now. My Mac is now without security and to wait in this situation is not a good idea. I hope I can get a quick answer here. Thanks in advance!

Thank you very much Berny for your quick response. Actually I am suspecting Kaspersky because I closed it and the Excel runs normal. The versions are: KTS: 19.0.0.1088(h) Excel: Office 365 version 1902 Thank you for reading my post.

Welcome. First thing: Please pass your mouse cursor over the Kaspersky tray icon and tell us the full, complete name and version number of your Kaspersky product. After we know that: How do you connect to the internet? Is your internet connection ok? Is your internet connection metered? Have you waited 15 minutes after system boot up to see if the update will occur? Reboot, then check system date/time correct, then Settings > Additional > Network > Proxy server > select Do Not use proxy server. Are you on battery or main power? Settings > Performance > uncheck Disable scheduled tasks. Are you in Gaming Profile? Kaspersky Settings > Performance > uncheck Automatically disable some functionality when in full screen mode. Is your Kaspersky license expiring in a few days? If your license is a managed subscription, please click Subscription, located at lower right of the main Kaspersky window, then click the "Update subscription status" button. Then start an Update. If still no go, attach the Detailed update report. Enable Log Non Critical Events: Settings > Additional > Reports and quarantine > check Log Non-critical events. Then do an update. Main Kaspersky window, lower center, More Tools > right side, click Reports > upper right > Detailed reports, upper left > dropdown > Update, select the current entry > right-middle > click Details > Save icon at upper right > Save, name the file and save it somewhere and attach it to your next post. If the file is too large to upload, then zip it (right click, send to > compressed zipped folder) and upload the zip. If the update report appears to be blank, please post the screenshot of the update report. How to take and post screenshot: PrtSc (Print screen) key (upper right part of keyboard)> open Paint (Start > All programs > Accessories) > Edit > Paste, File > Save as (jpeg or png, Not bmp). When replying, bottom left of reply box > Drag files here to attach, or choose files... Submit reply. Disable Log Non Critical Events when done. Please post your GetSystemInfo report link, instructions:

I'm not asking to switch KIS language, since it is already set to english. When user's keyboard is switched to non-english, I can't switch keyboards using hotkey in KIS, because the hotkey does not work. I must switch using mouse keys on taskbar, which is annoying.

How can I change the language from Portuguese (PT) to English (ENG) in the Kaspersky Internet Security app on my laptop (Windows 10)? I tried to search a bit in the forum and the suggested fix was to click shift + F12, but this doesn't seem to work on my laptop, instead that messed up the keyboard output.. Any help would be highly appreciated.

when entering password to KIS2019 application, the language switch hotkey (left alt+shift) does not work. is it a kind of safe keyboard handling? is it possible to make language switch hotkey working?

So there is no way to do it remotly, someone from the computer has to do it :S OK, thanks for the quick answer

Thanks for a quick and very sensible reply - if I had been under less pressure this morning, I hope I would have thought of at least one of these suggestions. I've been out - as the simplest of the three questions answer was "If KTS is disabled, does the error happen?" on my return I closed KTS and tried to start Word. Interestingly, although it had been installed a few hours ago, it went through some of the installation again - and then worked. The villain in the piece is obviously Kaspersky - and once KTS was running again, I closed Word and went to restart it. Back came the error message. So something in KTS is causing the problem.There is nothing significant in Kaspersky Reports. I will try closing KTS and restarting Word, to see if once it is opened it will run normally even if KTS is running. But it is a pain !

Please go to : Settings > Protection > File Anti-Virus > Advanced Settings > Scan Technologies Concerning Rootkits please see this Blog Also, about Quick Scan

Thank you Berny. You were correct. I got it going after a couple more attempts. The first few times it kept getting interrupted and stopping - I have no idea why. It just seemed very finicky. But I tried again and it worked and went through the end - took all of 26 minutes I have a couple of questions - Where does this scan (launched from the command line) pick up its settings from? It seems to be running with some default values at the moment. For example, How do I enable "iSwift"? Which files does the Rootkit Scan look at? All the objects loaded in memory? I do see that most of the files picked were Windows System, Common and Font files + Program Files that were open and running Does a Quick Scan look at all of the same objects that the Rootkit Scan does? Thank you

Hello squbbles, The Kaspersky escalation team have just advised the issue has been escalated to the Kaspersky developers as a bug. This is a much better status than "suggestion" as it shows Kaspersky have realised, children having access to Quick Access, allows them to disable critical KSK functions, the ramifications being, children may be in a dangerous or precarious situation(s) and cannot be located. No eta atm, but a good result - thank you again squbbles:clap_tone3:

Hello squbbles, Kaspersky Lab advise the requirement to block Quick Access has been logged, unfortunately they do not provide an eta. Best regards.

Doing it again , Calculating the time remaining to do a quick scan waiting for over a hour now to start.

Quick scan seems to be working now , once launched it takes a few mins to start working, never did that before.

Kaspersky Internet Security Won't Scan a Quick Scan or Full Scan.

Kaspersky Internet Security wont scan a full scan or quick scan. Uninstalled and reinstalled same thing , not working. Running windows 8.1 KIS version 20.0.14.1085 (d)

Hi Flood. Thanks for the quick reply. Yes its an active process as its waiting for connection. I was using it to stop getting up and down between our pc's lol and yes I can close it down. Its not a requirement. But it lead me to wonder if I can exclude the app or others from the application monitoring as it seemed to count to time usage limits? Free version... but trying out the trial for full version. I will grab that report. I am a Citrix SME so shouldnt be too hard haha

Hello. I have a quick question regarding the activation keys for KIS 2020. I upgraded the software a while ago and it still runs fine with the old 2019 license. So as my current license is running out, i am wondering when buying a new one, can I use another 2019 license and extend it like that or do I have to buy the 2020 version now?

Hello momtokid2125, Thanks for persisting with this, it's a steep learning curve but worth it & you're doing great! I had a quick look at the PM, there's a lot there, it will take me a while to go through. To address the Windows accounts. There should be a parent account = you, the parent account has higher privileges. You son must only have a standard account. Can you screen print the accounts, upload to cloud & PM the link please? Please don't post the account images to your post. Regarding your son exceeding the device Time of Use for 3.5 hours, I do not doubt the information. The answer may be in the "notifications", if I find it I will certainly tell you. Just to really test the solution, please ask your son to do everything he can to override KSK, (apart from accessing the computer under your profile:wink:) I know you'll let me know if he finds a way. Thanks again.

Hello everyone, I will still write a full reply although I think I’ve figured this out now and it is partly solved, although it might be problematic for other users under similar usage so should anyone else encounter this issue, this might be the answer. Berny I did of course try to figure out the reason for the blue screen on my own but the error code - to me - was one of those that could've been quite anything. It was rather the timing that made me suspicious, as I believe this computer has not suffered a bluescreen within the last 4 years. So during the testing of the issue, a blue screen was rather suspicious. I have installed BlueScreenView but this would not come up with anything, as there seem to be no logs in the folder specified by the program and I was unable to locate the minidumps elsewhere. Right after the crash I checked the EventLog and it came up with 0x00000101. FLOOD Thanks for the reply, I've done as you said and uninstalled/reinstalled the program as per instruction and deleted MBAM during the installation as Kaspersky was nagging me about it, just to be sure. The program seems a bit sluggish in speed compared to the older one but this might fix itself after it ran for some time (I hope). My SSD showed me 71.1 GB free after uninstalling KIS and installing the new version, leaving me with 6 GB more than before. Quick Scan came up with nothing, skipping another full scan and going straight for a custom scan of a data drive would again result in data being written to the SSD. KIS keeps creating small files that instantly disappear but also created another large file that reached 11.818.432 KB before I cancelled the scan. After ending the scan, this time KIS would instantly free up the space again, although I believe this to be due to the custom scan. You cannot resume a custom scan, so a full scan might keep the data in the TEMP folder until you fully reset it. As I now understand this is all actually intended behaviour. So just to confirm this, I instead checked my folder for some packed files and ran a scan of those (20.8 GB packed file, 25 GB unpacked) will indeed create a ~25 GB .tmp file by Kaspersky before proceeding to delete it. As the file would vanish once the scan is done I kept refreshing but the numbers check out. This means KIS will unpack the full archive every time to scan it. While I understand this, it is rather poorly implemented, considering that many people might actually run an SSD as System Drive which not only has limited writes but also often limited space. If you would have 50 GB as buffer you will inevitably run into problems trying to scan packed archives larger than this, which means KIS is probably not even able to scan those files as it might very well realize that the drive runs out of space, just delete the so-far unpacked archive and proceed to scan the next file. Considering KIS could first check whether it actually has enough space available to unpack such a file before starting to unpack GB of data onto a limited SSD seems logical to me. Not considering that people that have several data drives like me for storage or professional reasons might actually cause problems to their SSD eventually. While I am fully aware of modern SSD's durability, my SSD program told me that at current, KIS was writing around 1.5 TB of data per day. Considering that a full scan of several drives might easily result in a scan taking more than one day, a full scan should probably only be ran as an exception and not at all regularly. This issue will be nonexistent for many people as they might not work with compressed files to save storage or their compressed files will not hit the buffer they have left on their SSD. Still, considering that it has been stated again and again that especially on an SSD you want to leave some space free, regularly having KIS fill your SSD to the brink despite one believing to have sufficient buffer at 50-60 GB is certainly not good. As many people could also have significantly a significantly smaller SSD. Anyway the question that now remains is whether KIS will now heed my change of settings on ignoring archives or archives larger than 100 MB. I assume this might not work under a custom test as it will just scan everything, so I am rerunning a full scan now with those settings and will monitor the writes and storage on the SSD. But this is going to take some time, so I don't expect the results today, possibly not even tomorrow but it might also be much faster "IF" Kaspersky now properly skips archives. As this was now, after all, intended behaviour I can see that for users like me or users that have a lot of data, compressed data or limited SSD space, the best solution would be to ignore packed files every time or simply - and probably the best solution - move the TEMP folder to a different drive. I feel partly silly as after all, this was apparently all intentional behaviour by KIS but I also truly believe that something like this should be better documented or optimized. Watching your Drive evaporating before your eyes, unpacking terrabytes of data onto an SSD every time you run a full scan is probably not what your average user would expect. Considering that I believe KIS skips these files only AFTER running out of space on the SSD and then trying to again unpack a file that will not fit the SSD regardless makes this behaviour quite nonsensical anyway. Results for the full scan without scanning archives is pending, I will update again as the older version seems to have had the issue with ignoring my wish to skip over archives. Sorry to have wasted anyone's time, as I said at the very beginning, I did not know whether this behaviour was at all intended but was simply shocked to see my SSD at less than 200 MB of available space. At this point I would however call it poorly implemented or at least poorly documented. Thanks for everyone's help, regardless! Kind regards.