On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 09:51:03 -0400, Wolf K 
wrote:

>On 2016-10-19 07:53, mel@sajfd.com wrote:
>> On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 02:54:50 -0500, mel@sajfd.com wrote:
>[...]
>>> I now have to get back to my KAV problems with XP 3 - problems that
>>> disappear when I kill Kaspersky AV from working.
>>>
>>> I doubt if I'll be buying KAV again.
>>
>> The above is for real.
>>
>> Now I cannot download message bodies in Usenet.  When I turn KAV off,
>> I can.  I have been through every &^#% setting in their damn program
>> to no avail.  Money wasted.  I have to find some other AV.
>>
>> (Gawd!  This outfit has changed  since they started as AVP with an
>> american source somewhere in one of the Dakotas.)
>
>It could be your Usenet source that's triggering the block.

I have 3 separate Usenet sources.  It happens with each of them.

>That being said, XP is an obsolete OS, it's not surprising that 
>Kapersky's programs cause problems. I suspect that there will be issues 
>with most current anti-malware, so Good Luck.

They say in their system requirements that it works with XP and XP
Pro.  I have the latter

>Kapersky is and always has been Russian. They created a shell company 
>(aka "holding company") in the UK.

They started with a distributor in one of the Dakotas years back. It
was called AVP at the time.  You can still find an AVP file inside the
present day version of the AV.
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