For those who have Kaspersky

[hatter]

Last night (12/19) after I updated my Kaspersky signatures I was told that explorer.exe has became infected. Unfortunately because I was already having some trouble with trojans trying to enter my system through a USB drive i thought explorer has been infected by some of these trojans. Also I was running Kaspersky at high-security mode.

Kaspersky suggested a delete of the infected files and asked for a reboot to do so as it was the system files we were dealing with. After a couple of reboots and some trademark squeals from Kaspersky finally it succeeded in deleting Explorer.exe. But as some of you might have guessed this left me with a crippled OS. When I booted i could not get my Desktop to run even though the system was running alright.

I had to finally repair my Windows using the OS cd. It was only then that i looked at net and came to know that the problem arose because of Kaspersky signature updates as suggested by these forums.

False Positive? - Kaspersky Lab Forum

AnandTech - Just had my first XP BSOD.

This s**t took my three hours . I hope this post will help Kaspersky users to avoid my fate

 

[archish]

really sad, KAV is very good and I prefer it any day over others :-/

 

[Systemic Anamoly]

instead of deleting it u could have just run sfc /scannow from run >.<

 

[hatter]

instead of deleting it u could have just run sfc /scannow from run >.<

First I had no idea that Kaspersky will delete such a crucial file; second I had never though that M$ can allow any other application to touch such a critical functionality of its OS, let alone delete it; and third, to be honest, I was not aware of sfc /scannow at that time :ashamed:

 

[sri_rng]

whats SFC?

 

[hatter]

whats SFC?

actually this command allow you to repair broken functionality in XP. Though you do need the OS cd for it to work

 

[cool_techie_tvm]

Any ideal about the trojan that caused this mishap ?

 

[Quad Master]

Lol KAV has false alerts , its gr8 but too strong.

NOD 32 Rocks.

Used KAV for few months and then i came across NOD 32 never looked back after that.

 

[hatter]

When i used NOD it was only an AV. I need a suit with Firewall in it. Kaspersky is best in this regard

 

[hatter]

Any ideal about the trojan that caused this mishap ?

It was a false alarm. I have heard latest update solves this problem. But still it ate my three hours

 

[chic_magnet]

Nod32 i used to use b4 but the bloody thing neevr allowed any downloads through torrents for me damn.. so i shifted to norton again and then to kaspersky... 2 years on kaspersky.. .. great software

anyways about the explorer error.. hmm my explorer keeps crashing hmm.. i think its the same kaspersky error.. damn.. gotta look deeper

 

[Systemic Anamoly]

i used to use kav but now its nod32 v3 for me
set the desktopinicache to 0 in reg edit

Edit: Check this link

 

[Vince]

had a similar prob with kaspersky over the past week... using anti vir now..

 

[Indyan]

had a similar prob with kaspersky over the past week... using anti vir now..

Be careful. Antivir has a slightly better detection rate but gives more false positives than kaspersky.

 

[Balkazzaar]

i really don't understand all the hype that surrounds Kaspersky even though its very famous..:ashamed: i mean i installed it just a couple of weeks backs i didn't find it all that super........but it was becoming way too mush of bottleneck for my internet connection blocking everything even after adjusting the Kaspersky firewall settings properly........ i find ZoneAlarm way much better.........easy updates,good virus detection , firewall settings. ............