by Stephen Ibbs » Thu Jun 28, 2012 8:09 am
Hi Chuck
I posted a thread about Kaspersky some time ago warning that it seems to happily crunch vfp tables and indices. At the time I assumed it was the vpm low level file stuff in pack/reindex that was triggering the Kaspersky system so wrote my own reindex routine without low-level calls. However some problems still remained.
We tackled it in two ways:
1) Make sure the application is a 'trusted application'. Here in UK the tech support for Kaspersky is quite friendly and with the plethora of their products we could not keep up with advising users how to set the app to be trusted, so we now advise them to contact Kaspersky direct and get it sorted.
2) We obtained digital file signatures for our products from Comodo (via TUCOWS.COM as it was significantly cheaper than going to Comodo direct). Our assumption is that Kaspersky would recognise these and automatically mark our apps as trusted.
Since then the number of Kaspersky related corruption has dropped off the cliff.
Stephen Ibbs
Data Developments