Did Kaspersky just install Microsoft Update KB2670838 on W7 SP1 machines?

[Tabby]

Probably a silly question.

I have Kaspersky Plus running on my Windows 7 SP1 machine.

Last restart was sometime last week. I restarted it just now (Sat evening) and saw the Windows alert to not unplug the machine because Windows was installing an update. Same when it started, the warning about configuring the update.

All updates are turned off in Windows Control Panel, still are after this happened, and have been for a time frame measuring in years, I manually installed a few things as needed to run Kaspersky and Nord VPN, so the only program with permission to do this (and presumably, a reason) to mess with Windows Updates would be Kaspersky, I'm not running any trial modes of other security software. I have very little other software on here, Foxit, VideoLAN and Audacity (only used when offline). Nord has stopped doing its own program updates for W7 as well.

Before I uninstall it and dig further, can anyone verify whether this was actually Kaspersky? It seems bizarre. I truly never thought I'd see that screen again on shutdown...

Edited Saturday at 08:00 PM by Tabby
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[Schulte]

Hello @Tabby,

the only idea I have is the upgrade of your Plus from version MR20 to MR21 (21.21.7.384).
The upgrade has been distributed recently and the Windows installer is used for installation.
Can you please check if the latest version of the Plus is installed? Then we have a candidate.
I can't find any other update on my W7 system.

[Tabby]

Hi! I have 21.20.8.505 showing.

But when I looked up what that Windows update does, it seemed an unlikely candidate for Kaspersky to require, and I removed it without Kaspersky or anything attempting to download it again after another two restarts, which is probably the biggest indicator.

I racked my brain and it's possible this was caused by me starting installation of the .exe for IceCream Video Editor, a freebie I got years ago, I did this offline last week and it failed to install, requesting some Windows function I don't have (a common occurrence) so I cancelled the installation (and had forgotten about it when I did the restart). But looking at the areas that update covers, it may have initiated a request for the update.

Because my OS is so old, and this computer so slow, I sometimes keep .exes and then install > use > uninstall > clean registry afterwards, all while offline. So that might be the solution, I don't really want to retry to test it unless someone else reports the same thing. It's never happened before from using a software, then uninstalling it, that's why it took a while for the penny to drop.

Thank you!

Edited 5 hours ago by Tabby
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