effects of kis on system...

You're totally out of luck.. The only thing you can do is either live with it or...

format your hard drive and totally reinstall windows and all your programs, except of course, Kaspersky LOL..

Get Acronis or Ghost, and remember in the future....

 

Straight Shooter,

This is factually incorrect. A user can remove them at any time following a KAV/KIS uninstall using the fsutil application.

Blue

 

Exactly.

With so much FUD posted on security forums about Kaspersky & objectID's, I really do wish Kaspersky Labs would take charge of the situation by either offering an automated objectID removal tool or providing a removal guide showing the fsutil option for those concerned or affected by objectD's.

Cheers.

 

kaspersky the demon?

wow i've learnt a lot from your post..

 

Damn
I'm using Kaspersky. And I'm using it for a long time now. Am I doomed?

 

No. The Object IDs do not alter your hard disk or file system in any way. If chkdsk still is able to complete successfully then you don't have a cause for concern

 

Hi! Would it be safe to run the fsutil app on system files, too, say the complete c: drive including windows folders? Not that I need to, just out of curiosity.

 

Well, consider what file object identifiers are used for - they are an OS based secondary unique identifier for a file (instead of a filename with full path) to be used by the Distributed Link Tracking Service to maintain file links across multiple machines. For example - your machine is on a large domain and you use databases that are spread across a number of servers - the distributed link tracking service will keep track of where all that network based content is maintained.

These entities are really irrelevant on a standalone workstation, so yes, feel free to blow all of them away if you have a standalone workstation. If the machine is a member of a domain, there may be issues, but it's really only in the context just mentioned - you may have to manually locate specific content and/or applications, bringing a system up should be fine.

Blue

 

Neat! Thanks!

 

I get the impression that Straight Shooter is a "little anti-Kaspersky" and no matter what they used to improve the performance of their products,he would find some reason to dislike it,does every piece of software fully explain everything they install on your system,I think not!

 

I used KIS 6 and really didn't have issues, but, for some reason I got some serious slowdowns with KIS7. My browsing and other things about my machine(Vista) just got bogged down, so I left KIS.

Anyway, yes, some people seem to have system issues with KIS, while others don't, so keep that in mind when trying it.

 

okai im gonna do this tonight but i want to make a backup or image in case anything goes wrong, what is the best to use from you recc for making a backup?

also i had to call microsoft to get my vista activated on this machine.. will i need to do this again after restoring the backup or will it already be activated?? thanks in advance

 

If you make a complete image of your system partition you shouldn't need to re-activate windows when you restore it, unless you've significantly changed your hardware.

 

great thanks now what to use to back it up??

 

Don't they inform you that KIS uses iSteams and iSwift technology? I would think this discounts your acusations against Kaspersky.