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!

Hello,

Apple introduced the concept of System Extensions (SysExt) as an alternate to Kernel Extensions (Kext). System Extensions / Network Extensions allow to extend the functionality of macOS without requiring kernel-level access. It's a component of our product. You do not need to do any additional actions with it if the product works correctly.