uncadonego on 26/7/2010 at 05:22
I only get 70Kb/s at best because of my boonie locale. For that reason, I prefer all updates be manual, not automatic. Yesterday I updated my KIS'09 with '10. Today I changed updates to manual, and the green graphic on top of the interface changed to yellow, telling me my computer is at risk. It's not a life or death situation, because it states the reason just below the yellow light graphic. I'd prefer though, it stay green, even with manual updates if possible. Over time I'll start to ignore the yellow light because it is the norm. I may not notice if the stated reason in smaller print below the light changes.
Does anyone know if I can have a green light with the manual update setting?
Al_B on 26/7/2010 at 20:20
Assuming you're not going to hold me responsible when your computer blows up - this works for me:
* Restart your computer in Safe mode so Kaspersky doesn't have files locked
* Navigate to your Kaspersky skin\loc directory - e.g. c:\program files\Kaspersky Lab\Kaspersky Internet Security 2010\Skin\loc
* Open the file "prot.loc" in a text editor and search for #ProdStateUpdateNotAuto
* There will be several matches - the one you want is in section [s_ProdStateSeverity] - the line is 341 in my installation
* Put a semicolon at the beginning of the line before the "#" character (i.e. it should read ;#ProdStateUpdateNotAuto)
* Save and reboot
I've only tried this on XP so you may need to run your text editor as administrator if you're running Vista or Windows 7 with UAC enabled. I can't guarantee it will remove all warnings - I still got a brief pop-up when I changed automatic updates to manual.
uncadonego on 27/7/2010 at 04:49
Quote Posted by Al_B
Assuming you're not going to hold me responsible when your computer blows up - this works for me:
* Restart your computer in Safe mode so Kaspersky doesn't have files locked
* Navigate to your Kaspersky skin\loc directory - e.g. c:\program files\Kaspersky Lab\Kaspersky Internet Security 2010\Skin\loc
* Open the file "prot.loc" in a text editor and search for #ProdStateUpdateNotAuto
* There will be several matches - the one you want is in section [s_ProdStateSeverity] - the line is 341 in my installation
* Put a semicolon at the beginning of the line before the "#" character (i.e. it should read ;#ProdStateUpdateNotAuto)
* Save and reboot
I've only tried this on XP so you may need to run your text editor as administrator if you're running Vista or Windows 7 with UAC enabled. I can't guarantee it will remove all warnings - I still got a brief pop-up when I changed automatic updates to manual.
Thanks, I'll check it out. Sounds like just the ticket.
