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Hello @booger, Welcome! (please) Read before you create a new topic! Open KIS, select Settings, select Additional, uncheck Enable Secure Keyboard Input, select Save, select Save (to confirm the action). 💥 However, there’s also a tiny Quick launch keyboard icon that generates a Secure Keyboard Input is enabled popup → image 4, that drives many Kaspersky subscribers nuts, that cannot be disabled or managed in any way, discussed in topic raised by @Killeriguana How do I disable the "Secure Keyboard Input is enabled" pop-up WITHOUT disabling the Secure Input feature itself? Thank you🙏 Flood🐳+🐋 References: Secure Keyboard Input About protection of personal data on the Internet How to configure protection of data entered on the computer keyboard

Symptoms OS hang, sometimes with open file errors in journals Customer application degrades with errors "unable to open file", "too many open files" Hangs and third-party (compatibility) issues often require advanced data collection and are sophisticated to investigate. However, a quick check is possible: On a system where KESL has worked for some time (not immediately after reboot/restart), validate the output of the following command, ran as root, for numerous records of /usr/bin or /usr/sbin folders lsof | grep -E 'kesl.+DIR.+\/usr\/s?bin' Root Cause Under heavy load, KESL may display linear increase in file descriptors usage (sysctl - fs.file-nr) up to system-wide limit (sysctl - fs.file-max) and eventually degradation. Workaround Schedule restart of KESL service every week/day, depending on intensity of descriptors growth. NB: KESL restart will also reset progress of certain tasks like "malware scan" and "database update". Schedule KESL restart outside of tasks timeframes. Solution This issue was fixed in KESL 12.1.0.1274, so an update to that or newer version should fix it.

Hi Kaspersky Community, I’m new to Kaspersky Internet Security and want to set up Safe Browsing to protect my online activity (~5-10 websites daily). I’m struggling with the setup. Setup: Kaspersky Internet Security 21.3, Windows 10, Chrome browser. Steps Tried: Enabled Safe Browsing in KIS settings; some websites are blocked unexpectedly. Added a trusted site to exclusions; still getting “untrusted certificate” errors. Ran a quick scan; no threats found. Questions: What’s the best way to configure Safe Browsing for secure internet use? How do I fix “untrusted certificate” errors for specific websites? Any tips for optimizing Safe Browsing on Chrome? Thanks for your guidance!

Done that. No new apps installed. The only app updated a few days ago is Logi Options+ for my keyboard. Everything worked fine 5 days ago

This article describes what is considered a Full Scan, which affects the KSC status "Virus Scan has not been performed for a long time". Scan task area settings There are two ways to set areas for a Scan task. Tasks started with any other settings (including Quick Scan and Critical Area Scan with default settings) will not be considered as a Full Scan. Primary Kernel Memory Running processes and Startup Objects Disk boot sectors Local disk (logical disk where OS is installed) Alternative Kernel Memory Running processes and Startup Objects Disk boot sectors %systemroot%\ %systemroot%\System\ %systemroot%\System32\ %systemroot%\System32\drivers\ %systemroot%\SysWOW64\ %systemroot%\SysWOW64\drivers\ Path is Case-Sensitive in order to support upcoming Windows features. Selecting "including subfolders" is not obligatory. Successful execution of background scan clears the status of managed host 'not scanned for a long time" in KSC console.

Hello @Nick Og, Welcome! (You) can't find the settings described in the topic raised by @booger, because it's for Kaspersky Internet Security, not Kaspersky Plus. Read: Show quick launch icon in data entry fields. If you mean the keyboard that overlays the KPM icon, uncheck Show quick launch icon in data entry fields, Shopping & payment systems (in this case for Amazon site; or select the filter that applies). ?(ioo) it's a very poor design? - if this is not the issue-> post an image of the icon\prompt that's concerning you; there's more than one icon/prompt - we need to see what you see, rather than guess; also, please make sure the image is of the full browser window, including the URL bar & the system date & time? Thank you? Flood?+? Resource: Read before you create a new topic!

Hi @Bav, It is desirable to have the very latest database updates all the time, but not absolutely necessary. Kaspersky has extensive capabilities to detect malware as soon as it is launched. This works for a certain time even without up-to-date databases. The latest signatures would be an advantage for a scan, but undetected malware is harmless as long as it is not launched. Then the program control and other detection techniques intervene again. If the scan you start thinks the databases are too old, it will offer to update them first. But they are never really out of date. As soon as your computer is online, your Kaspersky can receive urgent information via the KSN and is therefore informed about the very latest known malware. If you still prefer a quick way for updates, you can create a batch file on the desktop, for example. For the MR21 the command is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kaspersky Lab\Kaspersky 21.21\avp.com" update Then it's just a double-click...

Quick assist en MS office wordt blijkbaar (volgens Microsoft support) geblokkeerd door Kaspersky. Hoe kan ik dit aanpassen?

Akkoord maar zij zeggen dat het aan mijn virusscanner kan liggen. Zeker dat de Quick assist tool niet kan opstarten. Vandaar dat ik graag had willen weten hoe ik iets kan aanpassen dat goedgekeurd wordt door mijn virusscanner. Toch al bedankt voor uw antwoord.

I don't get any alerts. When I type in my user name & password, the site tries to tell me that my user or p/w is incorrect, which it is NOT. When this happens, I have to pause protection, but that doesn't necessarily rectify the issue. As explained, I have to go through the pains of changing a p/w...but then making sure I use the virtual keyboard. If I've paused protection, then why would the virtual keyboard be working? Frankly this is becoming a royal pain in the neck! One site is protected in "safe money"., but again, if I pause protection...I can't access that site without going through the dreaded steps I've just described. In my second site, I can reach the site...when I attempt to sign in with my username & p/w...I get nothing...so again, I have to pause protection. Ridiculous! alectrautilities.com Ig.ca Sorry I forgot to mention the browsers you made reference to. Yes, it pertains to both Chrome AND Edge.

My computer is running Windows 11 23H2 22631.3155 Professional (x64) and has Kaspersky Internet Security 21.3.10.391 (patch k) installed. After a quick scan of kaspersky, I restarted my computer but failed with a bluescreen. It said the OS ran into some problem and the error code was INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE. After a forced reboot, the same bluescreen appeared again. I tried Windows boot repaire but it didn't work. I couldn't start the computer until I disabled the Early-Launch-AntiMalware on the boot option menu, which resulted in KIS not loaded. I thought the bluescreen must have something to do with KIS. To prevent rootkits and other unknown drivers from being loaded when the system boots, just after I had installed my OS, I turned on the Boot-Start Driver Initialisation Policy in Group Policy and set the policy to only allow "good" drivers to be initialised. I changed the policy to allow "good and unknown" drivers and restarted the computer, there was no bluescreen and KIS started normally like before. I changed the policy back to only allow "good" drivers and restarted the computer, the bluescreen came again. Just before this bluescreen accident happened, I updated database of KIS, and I ran a quick scan (NOTHING detected). I installed Qt 6.5.3 several days ago, but nothing went wrong these days. Even earlier, I installed a driver for Lenovo Hotkey on Lenovo System Update, which is an official driver updater and the installation was fully monitored by Kaspersky Internet Security. I think the problem may be due to KIS incorrectly classifying some important driver to be unknown during the ELAM stage. But I could not find anything about it: no related event logged, no KIS report and even no dump file for the bluescreen. The compromise in ELAM policy is just a workaround. Could anyone give more help?

I set the update to "After application launch" for test and waited 2 minutes After 10 minutes, there was no trace in the report The problem therefore appears to be a setting in Kaspersky that is causing updates to be buggy I'll retest by restoring all the settings to their defaults, just to be sure

@Flood and Flood's wife I found some information on the Kaspersky website (for older versions) and if I understood correctly, for the "Every hour" setting, If for the Hours setting, it says 10:00 AM and 1 hour for the "Run every" setting, then the search will be performed every hour starting at 10:00 AM (and therefore not before) I don't see what the Postpone.... setting is for if the PC (or Kaspersky) is launched before the specified time Otherwise, I reinstalled Kaspersky 21.21, and the update ran automatically without any problems after installation (with all the default settings) Either the reinstallation fixed the problem, or a setting is breaking the automatic update I set it to "every hour" I had this problem with a software that Kaspersky was blocking. The software's launch was delayed by 1 minute with a disabled setting in K, and only if Kaspersky was closed and reopened Thanks for your help I will see if the problem persists, if so, it will be a setting (or bug with setting) in K therefore

Window 7 X64 build 7600 Version 21.2.16.590© Whenever I went to bank web site, the virtual keyboard show up. I appreciate it and not much problem about it. However, whenever the virtual keyboard show up. My real keyboard are blocked from any character input. I could see ctrl, alt, backspace, tab are working through the virtual keyboard. But my real keyboard cannot use any keys, like 1-0 and a-z, even after closing every program. I had to restart in order to get back my keyboard. Any idea if I can turn on my keyboard after the incident??

Hello @Rich_in_HaPA, Welcome! Yes. Ok. OK. You can't - it's by design. There's been a multitude of complaints, Kaspersky appears not to have heard them. You may wish to log a request, on the support page, fill in an Email or Chat, then select Feedback, I have a Suggestion, or Feedback, I have a Complaint template - provide a detailed history & explanation/reasons for the request. Support may communicate with you & discuss the proposal. All requests go thru the relevant team/s, not all requests are successful & even successful requests may take a long time to be implemented. Please share the outcome with the Community, when it's available? Thank you? Flood?+? Resources: Very little info for Secure Keyboard Input - in Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac library. Existing Community topics, generic filter: Secure Keyboard Input is enabled Quick Launch Keyboard

Hi, I am facing the above detection on some torrent sites like 1337x(.)to and yts(.)mx My windows installation is 11 latest version and Kaspersky version is 21.21.7.384(a), I am seeing that many people with Kaspersky are seeing the above detection and it seems like some common banner advertisement that might be the cause. I had downloaded a file from the same website before the detection occurred, am I at any risk? ADWCleaner, Sophos Scan&Clean and Kaspersky Quick Scan came back as clean.

Enable VirusTotal in tool AutoRuns, some links: https://isc.sans.edu/diary/19933 https://github.com/securitywithoutborders/guide-to-quick-forensics/blob/master/windows/autoruns.md

https://forum.kaspersky.com/search/?q=zapret&quick=1&type=forums_topic&nodes=18

Hello @jawckey, Welcome! In Safe Money settings - make sure *all* settings are as shown in image 1, especially Run Protected Browser & To proceed to websites from the Safe Money window, use Default browser In the actual Safe Money browser (you) may wish to add shortcuts for the websites (you) commonly use - image 2 In Safe Money websites, again, (you) may wish to build a list of websites (you) commonly use - image 3 Using these - we - can use the Safe Money browser without it 'spawning' new tabs, once it's running - we simply go to the Chrome search field OR the URL field & type in our required www & it goes directly to the site OR - if our search is generic - a list of potential sites - but no spawning of new tabs without opening a www. *Also* - at "when I restart my windows 11 desktop, I launch a normal chrome window." - why not *launch Safe Money browser* right from this starting point - either from Safe Money shortcut (on desktop) OR from Safe Money websites - in the Kaspersky application? & (ioo) - "restarting the desktop" is an extreme measure - kill the Safe Money Chrome browser - via Windows Task manager Any issues or concerns please post back? Thank you? Flood?+? Resources: Read: Safe Money Safe Money settings

After being intermittently locked, my main keyboard is functioning fine - for now. Thank you again Berny for your help. Now to clarify, I thought I disabled the on-screen keyboard (as advised). Now I am not so sure I did that. Specifically, I have un-ticked the “Enable Secure Keyboard Input” - see attached PrintScr posted on this chat 1 day ago. In fact, On Screen Keyboard still appears selected - see PrintScr below. Just now I tried using Kaspersky On-Screen keyboard on my bank site; it functioned fine and did not lock my main keyboard. To muddy the waters further, late on the night of blocked main keyboard, MS has updated my Win10. I am not sure it had any beneficial effect. Thank you to everyone in this forum. A great help!

Today, I ran into a rather frustrating issue. After turning on my computer on March 30, I noticed that Steam didn’t launch automatically as it normally does. At first, I thought it might just be an autostart glitch, so I tried opening it manually — but nothing happened. The app simply wouldn’t start. I went through all possible fixes: reinstalling Steam, deleting leftover files, and checking system settings, but no luck. Finally, as a last resort, I decided to temporarily disable Kaspersky. To my surprise, Steam launched immediately. However, the problem persists — every time I restart my PC, I have to turn off Kaspersky to open Steam. This has never happened before, and I have no idea what’s causing it. You might wonder if I changed anything on March 29 that could have triggered this. The answer is no — I barely used my computer that day. There were no updates for Steam or Windows, and I didn’t tweak any settings, either in my system or in the antivirus software. One more detail: Poland switched to daylight saving time overnight, from March 29 to 30. Could that have somehow caused a conflict between Kaspersky and Steam? Honestly, I doubt it — but something is definitely wrong, and I don’t know how to fix it. Additionally, I’m using Kaspersky Plus with active protection and Windows 11 24H2 with the latest updates installed. If you need more information, screenshots, or video recordings, I’m happy to provide them. This issue is quite frustrating, and I’d really like to solve it — especially since I’ve never encountered anything like this before. I’m also worried that Kaspersky might be blocking more applications than just Steam. For now, everything else seems to be working fine.

@MousePadOff Read: Do not Disturb Mode: "If this check box is selected, Kaspersky application does not display notifications about events that occur during video calls, when watching videos, when working with applications, or using the keyboard. Do not Disturb Mode can also pause some automatically started tasks or delay running scheduled tasks to avoid excessive utilization of computer resources." Check Interface Settings, Configure Notifications -> Notify on screen. Navigate to File Explorer, click the "View" tab, and check or uncheck the box for "Show file name extensions". Check in Windows, Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections, is there a LAC, Kaspersky VPN? IF 'yes' uninstall it then shutdown the computer using SHUTDOWN, not Restart, power ON by pressing the power-button, login, recheck the VPN alert? IF it OR any other issues persist & (you're) confident (you've) installed & configured the software correctly, log a request with Kaspersky Customer Service, https://support.kaspersky.com/b2c#contacts - select either Email or Chat, then fill in the template as shown; include a *detailed history*; Support may request logs, GSI, traces captured while the problem is replicated & other data; they will guide you. Is Kaspersky VPN in Windows notifications & actions - after - the uninstall? IF 'yes', turn notifications OFF in Windows. *BEFORE* contacting support - make sure Windows OS / build is up-to-date, with no Beta, Canary, Development & OR Insider Build installed & the Kaspersky Standard version is 21.21.7.384.0.23.0 -> https://www.kaspersky.com/downloads#update-product? *Also* -> IF using Chat - a copy of the chat transcript can be downloaded by selecting Download - otherwise (you'll) have no record of the chat* Please share the outcome with the Community, when it's available? Thank you🙏 Flood🐳+🐋

Hello @Eastclif, You're most welcome?! Not silly at all! Thank you for the information & image? It never hurts to ask, we're delighted the issue has been clarified; just for your information the Quick launch keyboard icon that generates a Secure Keyboard Input is enabled popup, (that you've shown in the image) & that drives many Kaspersky subscribers nuts, that popup cannot be disabled or managed in any way. It is possible to select Settings, select Additional, uncheck Enable Secure Keyboard Input, select Save, select Save (to confirm the action), but, that will not stop the popup, so, it's best to leave Secure Keyboard Input set at the default setting. Thank you? Flood?+?

It still doesn’t work for me. I have to completely disable the antivirus to launch the Steam application. I tried continuing the conversation with support, but I ran out of patience. I feel like they're either avoiding confrontation or trying to brush me off.

In view of the fact that support for Win 10 will end in fall 2025, it is time for Kaspersky to launch a Linux version of Password Manager. I have been a customer of the program for years and own a PC that is not Win 11 compatible. I can't and don't want to buy a new PC. My device is perfectly suitable for my purposes but is already several years old. Therefore, I think in the interest of the many customers who use Kaspersky Password Manager and, like me, have no possibility to buy a new PC but want to continue using the program, the company should fulfill our wish.