If you know what you're doing, it's basically magical with daily updated definitions and quiet weekly scans.

I really dont know what the point in all this discussion about the adware state of GOG Galaxy or usefulness of this or that antivirus is.

I think GOG should resolve this issue with Kaspersky, like any other professional software company that tries to sell things to people. That's why I reported it.

If all of you security and software experts are as good as you say; Maybe you heard of compromised websites that spread malicious auto updates of otherwise perfectly harmless programs?
So the first thing that should come to mind if your antivirus reports such a find AFTER an update of the software is to suspect the update was maybe compromised, and not just blindly adding the new update to an exclusion list.

As I said, I didn't post this to get advice as to how to resolve the issue, but to bring it to the attention of GOG.

Cheers

Line40

Ok great, mission accomplished. Can't you let others have some fun now? :P

Not only that, but on my PC as soon as I start Galaxy it nearly kills Windows in the process with my whole system being unresponsive, taking forever to display the task manager, being unable to shutdown, etc... at first I thought that either my system HD was dying or I had a virus.

But as soon as I disable Kaspersky everything goes back to normal. I tried adding Galaxy to the list of exclusion but it didn't help either.

Luckily for me Galaxy is on a separate Windows partition where he is totally alone so I don't mind turning down Kaspersky while I am using Galaxy but it's still inconvenient.

It's that bad for you?
Holy crap. O_o

Simple case of deciding which is worse, Kapersky or Clientware. Me I would remove both of them.

Yeah, I was about the trash the partition and re-install Windows from scratch when I noticed that Kaspersky was talking 20% of CPU continuously.

I have used Kaspersky for years and I never had a similar issue on neither my "work" partition nor my "DRM-gaming" partition (i.e. the one where Steam/Origin/Uplay games are installed) .

I've had a weird issue just once with Comodo, LA Noire refused to launch while it was installed.
Even turning the firewall off didn't help only uninstalling it.

Strange that Kaspersky does not detect two other major viruses!

1) Windows
2) Itself

=D

If all you wanted to do was notify GOG (actually Kapersky needs to fix this, not GOG), then you should have e-mailed them or sent in a support ticket. Posting this in the discussion forums is inevitably going to lead to, well, discussion.

As for your thoughts on security, while what you describe has been known to happen, what happens far, FAR more often is antivirus products get it wrong. The most likely and first thing that should come to mind is "false positive", especially when the software in question is from an otherwise trusted source. However, we "security and software experts" don't just automatically believe one way or the other, we verify. On-demand malware scanners, VirusTotal, simple research, etc. can easily sort the false threats from the real ones. With Galaxy, basic logic will do: if Galaxy really were malware, the forums would be flooded with reports from multiple users and multiple antivirus products. That has not happened, therefore, false positive, add an exception to your antivirus.