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I often read threads how one IT person thinks “X” AV is better, and others swear “Y” is better, but I ran across a non-profit Australian organization called the Institute for Security in Information Technology – AV-Comparatives, who does on-going research and testing into how well different AV products ACTUALLY work. For 2012, I was happy…

By: Jim Bulger 1.       Creating a profile There are two ways to create a new profile. You can create “New” profiles from scratch or you can “Copy” from an existing profile and edit as needed.  Note: The “Sample Server Profile” and “Sample Workstation Profile”  shown below, are templates and cannot be edited by anyone,  but…

Kaseya’s Kaspersky Anti-Virus (KAV) will not automatically update/upgrade to the latest version.  While virus definitions are updated automatically, the software itself requires manual updating. Verifying that KAV is up-to-date can be a little confusing.  KAV 1.4 was released in October and replaced KAV 1.3.  The older version is identified as “Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010” (Kaspersky 9)…

Installing Anti-Virus can often be a little painful.  If you are working with Kaspersky (KAV), here are a few basic troubleshooting steps from our Virtual Administrator support Guru,  Jim Bulger: 1)    Check to see if the install was successful but script timed out before verification  After a failed install check the end point for the avp.exe…

Kaseya has released the next update to their Kaspersky implementation in their RMM tool. KAV 1.2 bring, among other things, server support.