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<blockquote data-quote="cofer123" data-source="post: 966716" data-attributes="member: 92976"><p>This is the reason I went back to ESET, along with a few other reasons of my own. It never attempted to install anything I didn't want in over a decade I've been using it, and it remains consistent on what it offers.</p><p></p><p>While the KIS features (sw updater, anti-spam, app. management, private browsing) are all configurable and possible to disable, the sneaky VPN installation was my first disappointment. You can avoid installing it by downloading the offline installation files (which are not available anywhere) and removing the VPN files before it's installed, but that is a terrible behavior to install it by default, akin to installers riddled with malware that sneak software into your computer without your consent.</p><p></p><p>The PW manager is also handled very poorly by Kaspersky since it attempts to reinstall itself after each major software update, and you have to be aware to uncheck its install checkbox each time. While that is something that should be done for anything that attempts to install itself on your computer, don't forget some of us manage other people's computers and these users are not as careful on what they install, .e.g., parents. I mean, the reason I chose KIS for them is because they are not careful with their computer habits, so what good is KIS if itself is doing what I wanted it to prevent?</p><p></p><p>But the major issue I recently faced with Kaspersky is that I'm a developer, and I had a very unfortunate episode happen to me which took several hours to recover.</p><p></p><p>Whenever I compile a new version of an application, Kaspersky would nag me about it since it's a new, unknown software. While I can set folder exclusion rules so that Kaspersky wouldn't nag me about my own software, the problem that is unfixable is when my new software attempts to interact with any other software on my computer. Then the behavior scanner of KIS would either:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Block the interaction altogether, if apply default actions are set in Kaspersky; or</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Nag me with half a dozen prompts each time my software ran, if apply default actions are not set in Kaspersky.</li> </ol><p>And each time a compile a new version of my software, the annoyances will, of course, repeat themselves. And according to Kaspersky's own support, there is no way around that with the exception of turning off behavioral scan, thus disabling one of Kaspersky's main security features.</p><p></p><p>But the real bad episode I had was when KIS wrongly flagged one of my software as malware and initiated an advanced disinfection without my consent. It didn't even ask me what to do, it simply went full red alert. For those that never had this happen, what an advanced disinfection does is to halt pretty much anything running on your computer and prepare a forceful restart, but without properly closing running processes. That was akin to a hard power-off of my computer while I had several sensitive stuff running. I lost code I was working on, Firefox got corrupted and lost several of its settings/extension settings. KeePass was performing an automatic database save and it got corrupted, and even Windows had to enter recovery mode because some stuff got damaged along the way.</p><p></p><p>Thankfully I have backups and was able to restore most of what I had lost, but that's something no AV software should ever do, especially when I configure it specifically so what it should ask me what to do on any situation. After that, which happened around July/August, I decided it would be best to simply move away from Kaspersky.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cofer123, post: 966716, member: 92976"] This is the reason I went back to ESET, along with a few other reasons of my own. It never attempted to install anything I didn't want in over a decade I've been using it, and it remains consistent on what it offers. While the KIS features (sw updater, anti-spam, app. management, private browsing) are all configurable and possible to disable, the sneaky VPN installation was my first disappointment. You can avoid installing it by downloading the offline installation files (which are not available anywhere) and removing the VPN files before it's installed, but that is a terrible behavior to install it by default, akin to installers riddled with malware that sneak software into your computer without your consent. The PW manager is also handled very poorly by Kaspersky since it attempts to reinstall itself after each major software update, and you have to be aware to uncheck its install checkbox each time. While that is something that should be done for anything that attempts to install itself on your computer, don't forget some of us manage other people's computers and these users are not as careful on what they install, .e.g., parents. I mean, the reason I chose KIS for them is because they are not careful with their computer habits, so what good is KIS if itself is doing what I wanted it to prevent? But the major issue I recently faced with Kaspersky is that I'm a developer, and I had a very unfortunate episode happen to me which took several hours to recover. Whenever I compile a new version of an application, Kaspersky would nag me about it since it's a new, unknown software. While I can set folder exclusion rules so that Kaspersky wouldn't nag me about my own software, the problem that is unfixable is when my new software attempts to interact with any other software on my computer. Then the behavior scanner of KIS would either: [LIST=1] [*]Block the interaction altogether, if apply default actions are set in Kaspersky; or [*]Nag me with half a dozen prompts each time my software ran, if apply default actions are not set in Kaspersky. [/LIST] And each time a compile a new version of my software, the annoyances will, of course, repeat themselves. And according to Kaspersky's own support, there is no way around that with the exception of turning off behavioral scan, thus disabling one of Kaspersky's main security features. But the real bad episode I had was when KIS wrongly flagged one of my software as malware and initiated an advanced disinfection without my consent. It didn't even ask me what to do, it simply went full red alert. For those that never had this happen, what an advanced disinfection does is to halt pretty much anything running on your computer and prepare a forceful restart, but without properly closing running processes. That was akin to a hard power-off of my computer while I had several sensitive stuff running. I lost code I was working on, Firefox got corrupted and lost several of its settings/extension settings. KeePass was performing an automatic database save and it got corrupted, and even Windows had to enter recovery mode because some stuff got damaged along the way. Thankfully I have backups and was able to restore most of what I had lost, but that's something no AV software should ever do, especially when I configure it specifically so what it should ask me what to do on any situation. After that, which happened around July/August, I decided it would be best to simply move away from Kaspersky. [/QUOTE]
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