Is anyone using the 2015 version of Kaspersky AV?

It works with all my programs except my older version 1.9x of Agent
newsreader. It does work with my older 5.x of Xnews without a problem.
Agent seems the only program it has a problem with. I get no
notifications of a problem from Kaspersky. It simply will not allow me
to download new headers without first turning off Kaspersky. However,
after downloading the headers, I can then turn Kaspersky back on and
download the newer message bodies. How weird is that?

Believe me when I tell you I have went through the dang thing and
unchecked one menu item at a time. It doesn't matter. With all of them
taken out of the mix, the same problem exists.

The 2014 version worked without a problem on my machine. The newer
version has a different interface. I don't know how many of the
settings differ from the 2014 version because I uninstalled that
version. I am really getting tired of these AV companies "improving"
their damn programs to the point where the last version worked
perfectly but the newer version is "improved" to the point that it
isn't worth using. I've run into this "improved" update version
problem before, but never to the point where the program wouldn't
allow a certain program to operate.

The only firewall I am running is the XP firewall, which also ran
during my use of the 2014 version. I do not have any other type of
anti malware or av program on the computer. Everything is as it was
when last running the Kaspersky 2014 version earlier in the day. This
2015 version of Kaspersky is strictly the AV program, not any kind of
"Internet Security" suite or anything like that.

One other thing. It is doing the same nonsense on a second computer we
have. Same exact problem.
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If you are wondering why I'm not querying Kaspersky, it's because they
have a tool that you have to use which gives them entree to the info
and history of your entire computer. Read below.

Regulation on data provisioning

Kaspersky Lab ZAO is rightholder of the software to which current
Regulation applies.

The regulation defines the procedure for obtaining and using
information.

1. Definitions 1.1 The Software means software including any Updates
and related materials 1.2 Computer(s) means combination of
hardware(s), including personal computers, laptops, workstations,
personal digital assistants, 'smart phones', hand-held devices, or
other electronic devices, and operating system(s) (including system
virtual machines) for which the Software was designed where the
Software will be installed and/or used. 1.3 Trace files mean data
containing information on work of the Software or its components. 1.4
Memory dump files mean the contents of system memory of the Software
processes at the time of generation. 1.5 System information files mean
data containing information about Computer. 1.6 Rightholder (owner of
all rights, whether exclusive or otherwise to the Software) means
Kaspersky Lab ZAO, a company incorporated according to the laws of the
Russian Federation. 1.7 End User (You/Your) means individual(s) who
are legally using a copy of the Software.

2. Information provided In order to eliminate conflicts of the
Software with the software and/or drivers installed on your Computer,
and to eliminate errors of the Software, You agree to collect and
provide to the Technical Support the following data which may contain
confidential information.

2.1. System information files: Information about your computer
hardware and software, including operating system and service packs
installed, kernel objects, drivers, services, Internet Explorer
extensions, printing extensions, Windows Explorer extensions,
downloaded program files, active setup elements, control panel
applets, hosts file and registry records, browser and e-mail client
versions, information about ports opened and connections established
at the moment of data collecting.

2.2. Trace files - Information about the status of your computer's
antivirus protection and data on any objects or activities suspected
of being malware (e.g., detected object name, date/time of detection,
names/paths and size of infected files, part or hash of IP and port of
network attack, list of malware actions and potentially malicious
URLs) and product and user decisions about them. - Information about
applications downloaded by the user (URL, attributes, file size,
information about process that initiated download). - Information
about applications and their modules run by the user (size,
attributes, date created, information about PE headers, region, name,
location, and compression utilities used). - Information about errors
and usage of the user interface of the Kaspersky Lab product installed
on your computer. - Information about network connections, including
IP address of remote computer and user's computer, connection port
numbers, network protocol type. - Information about sent and received
email and IM messages. - Information about URLs visited, including
data about login and password in case of open connection. - The server
public certificate


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