I've become a big fan of Kaspersky and their security products but I've only been using them for a year or so. I ran into an issue with a client the other day that had been using a Windows Server 2003 member server for some basic needs and wanted to upgrade to 2008. It was successfully upgraded and I re-installed Kaspersky Total Security which is their business security product. Not a good idea.

Kaspersky 2008 Support

As of writing this, Kaspersky's only product that supports Windows Server 2008 is Kaspersky Antivirus Enterprise Edition. I've read about some people that are using another Kaspersky product on Server '08 with some success or with "quirky" networking issues. For me it was more severe and had a Blue Screen of Death on every boot.

This was a bigger problem than expected because if I went into Safe Mode I wasn't abled to uninstall it because the Windows Installer service doesn't run in Safe Mode. I tried to disable the Kaspersky service as well as stop the Kaspersky program from starting in msconfig. Neither helped and the server kept rebooting itself.

Official Kaspersky Uninstall Tool

Luckily like most other Antivirus vendors, there is a tool to remove their application. Here is a link to that tool. It supports all the version 6 software and works like a charm.

External Links

http://www.kaspersky.com/support/kav6/install?qid=193239348 Kaspersky Uninstall Tool