Guild Wars 2

Hi to anyone out there that may use Kaspersky I have had issues with connect to server and found away to allow game to play even when Kaspersky tells me client has access to all rights. But wont connect.

I have had to manually go into Kaspersky settings and find a way to exclude all GW2 from scans and game is now working fine. in case it helps others you need to go into settings > additional > threats and exclusions > specify trusted applications > add > then find anything that is to do with Guildwars 2 & Coherent UI and make them active

All i can say is that Kapersky is the most famous virus scanner to block MMOs
from running.

I will tell you, if you are running Windows Vista or later, drop those paid antivirus programs and use the one from Microsoft. It is built into Win 8 & 10. If you want a backup to verify no infections, use Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free Edition.

I used Kaspersky 7 years ago and had a big problem with it. A virus was in my pc acting as another anti virus program and Kaspersky cold not detect it what so ever. Also I found out at some point later on that Kaspersky is really slow with updates such that many Trojans and viruses get though all the time. I started to not count on it any more.

I started to use avast since the beginning of the year and have not had problems since then. Also my boss recommended it to me since he was using it since it has been out a long time ago.

I have gone though many anti virus programs in the past over 4 or so and avast has it all from what I have seen so far. Anti-viruses I have used, Kaspersky, Panda, Norton, and Norman. At the end with all these programs I needed to use other programs to detect other viruses that they them selves could never detect.

I would drop Kapersky all together.

Two ex-Kapersky employees accuse the company of intentionally submitting False Positives to VirusTotal

In one technique, Kaspersky’s engineers would take an important piece of software commonly found in PCs and inject bad code into it so that the file looked like it was infected, the ex-employees said. They would send the doctored file anonymously to VirusTotal. Then, when competitors ran this doctored file through their virus detection engines, the file would be flagged as potentially malicious. If the doctored file looked close enough to the original, Kaspersky could fool rival companies into thinking the clean file was problematic as well….
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Over the next few months, Batchelder’s team found hundreds, and eventually thousands, of good files that had been altered to look bad.

Denial from Kapersky

But it is known that Kapersky has done this in the past, as an “experiment”