Though Kaspersky said it emailed people about the automated change to a new product, some customers say they were surprised by the move.

To prevent Kaspersky from blocking a given application, you should add that application to an exclusion rule. Exclusion rules are lists of system objects that are exempt from Kaspersky's scans.

In September 2024, many users were surprised to see a new antivirus program, UltraAV, on their computers without any warning.

The Federal Communications Commission has added Kaspersky Lab, a Russian firm, to a list of companies it says pose a threat to national security. Previously, in 2017, Kaspersky Lab products were ...

The move should please law enforcement, including cops in the U.S. As Forbes reported earlier this year, in a recent ...

Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has uninstalled its popular antivirus software from U.S. users' computers, automatically ...

Firewall shows how well the software and its firewall stopped rogue connections to and from the Internet. For products without a built-in firewall, the default Windows firewall was enabled.