Kaspersky extention not working anymore

[ChrisN991]

Hello,

I've installed Kaspersky premium, however the kaspersky extention on chromium is not working anymore.
 

I was using it before with Kaspersky Internet security.

What should I do please?
Thanks a lot.

[nexon]

Hello,

Welcome.

1. Chromium based browsers are not officially supported.
2. Which browser do you use? If brave then should be work with some changes.

Edited September 19 by nexon

[ChrisN991]

20 minutes ago, nexon said:

Hello,

Welcome.

1. Chromium based browsers are not officially supported.
2. Which browser do you use? If brave then should be work with some changes.

Hello,

Thank you for your answer.
I'm indeed using Brave. Until this morning it was working with Kaspersky IS.

What kind of changes please?

Thanks again for your time.

[nexon]

I use brave also... 

So go to installation directory of brave and rename brave to chrome. 

You must have closed browser sometimes it takes a couple of minutes when Kaspersky protection addon will work. 

Edited September 19 by nexon

[ChrisN991]

Thank you, it works perfectly!

[nexon]

Also please note you must repeat after each update of brave... You will see Kaspersky protection addon is greyed out then brave installed new version. 

Also you can create support ticket for add brave browser as supported browser from Kaspersky. 

Edited September 19 by nexon

[ChrisN991]

Thank you for this information, indeed it may be useful to have brave supported. :)

[CLEsports]

On 9/19/2024 at 12:50 PM, nexon said:

Also please note you must repeat after each update of brave... You will see Kaspersky protection addon is greyed out then brave installed new version. 

@ChrisN991 I have been using Brave this way for years, by renaming brave.exe to chrome.exe. I made a simple PowerShell script to automate this and have it run every time I login.

###############################################
##      KIS Plugin workaround for Brave      ##
###############################################

## Kaspersky browser plugin doesn't officially work in Brave browser.  However, if the executable
## for Brave is renamed to chrome.exe, the KIS plugin magically works.  This script verifies that
## brave.exe matches the chrome.exe in the Brave Browser application directory & replaces it if not
####################################################################################################

$brave = "C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe"
$chrome = "C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\chrome.exe"
# Get the file hashes
$hashSrc = Get-FileHash $brave -Algorithm "SHA256"
$hashDest = Get-FileHash $chrome -Algorithm "SHA256"

# Compare the hashes, copy files if different & log results
If ($hashSrc.Hash -ne $hashDest.Hash)
{
  Write-Host "Brave updated. Copying executable"
  Copy-Item $brave $chrome
  "Hash values of brave.exe and chrome.exe are NOT equal. Updated $((Get-Date).ToString())" | Out-File -FilePath C:\Apps\Brave-KIS-workaround.log
}

 

In TaskScheduler have it run at log on using the following parameters

C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -WindowStyle Hidden -file C:\Apps\Brave-KIS-workaround.ps1

Change file paths to wherever you decide to save the PowerShell script