Kapersky false positives in ParaTExt

Question

[BruceC writes]

I upgraded to WinX, and Kaspersky quarantined ParaTExt during a live session. I disabled my Kaspersky briefly, and relied on Windows Defender for a few days, and got hit with some malware from Russia. I finally got that cleared up, and re-installed Kaspersky. Their tech support gave me the following instructions for making custom exclusions for ParaTExt, and it’s working so far:

1. If the main window of Kaspersky application is not on your desktop, bring it up by double-clicking the Kaspersky desktop
   Shortcut (icon) or by double clicking on the Kaspersky icon in the bottom right corner of the screen;
2. Click on the Gear icon in the bottom left corner of the Kaspersky window;
3. On the left side menu select ‘Additional’;
4. On the right side menu select ‘Threats and Exclusions’;
5. Under ‘Exclusions’ click on ‘Specify trusted applications’; <>
6. Click ‘Add’;
7. Pick an application from the list or click ‘Browse’ in the bottom left corner to manually locate the application (.exe file).
8. Check the necessary boxes (or all of them) and press ‘Add’

Answer 1

To keep Kaspersky from flagging future updates you can create a folder exclusion, or an exclusion that applies to any file named paratext.exe by following the instructions here for Kaspersky Internet Security:
https://support.kaspersky.com/12160