{"id":12224,"date":"2018-05-07T14:30:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T22:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/05\/07\/news-5993\/"},"modified":"2018-05-07T14:30:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T22:30:12","slug":"news-5993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/05\/07\/news-5993\/","title":{"rendered":"Error: What to do if your Kaspersky product suddenly stops working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Marvin the Robot| Date: Mon, 07 May 2018 12:32:09 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you receive an error message saying &#8220;Integrity violation,&#8221; or &#8220;Invalid key file,&#8221; or something like that while using Kaspersky Internet Security, Kaspersky Total Security, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, or Kaspersky Free (for example, after installing the product, updating it or updating your operating system), it is a bug\/glitch that we are already aware of and have a workaround for.<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2018\/05\/07082918\/update-error-solution-featured.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22330\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2018\/05\/07082918\/update-error-solution-featured.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1460\" height=\"958\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To fix this problem, you&#8217;ll need to reinstall your security solution. Here&#8217;s how to do that:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Make sure you have your activation key on separate media, be it a piece of paper from the product box, and e-mail in your mailbox, your MyKaspersky account, or somewhere else. If you cannot find your activation key, follow the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/support.kaspersky.com\/common\/buy\/13030\">instructions from this article<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Uninstall the security solution. To do that, open the Control Panel, choose <em>Programs and Features,<\/em> select the security solution, and click <em>Uninstall<\/em>. If that doesn&#8217;t work, follow <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/support.kaspersky.com\/12783\">the instructions here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Go to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/advert\/downloads?redef=1&amp;THRU&amp;reseller=gl_kdaily_acq_ona_smm__onl_b2c__lnk_______\">official Kaspersky Lab website<\/a> and download the installer for the security solution you&#8217;ve been using.<\/li>\n<li>Run the installer and follow the installation instructions.<\/li>\n<li>Activate the security solution using your activation key.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The problem should be solved. If for some reason it persists or you have any trouble finding your activation key or activating the product, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/my.kaspersky.com\/support\/requests\/create\">submit a request<\/a> to Kaspersky Lab Technical Support through the My Kaspersky portal, and include a detailed description of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Once we come up with a longer-term solution we&#8217;ll update this post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/update-error-solution\/22329\/\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/blog.kaspersky.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Marvin the Robot| Date: Mon, 07 May 2018 12:32:09 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If your Kaspersky product tells you something about an \u201cInvalid key file\u201d or \u201dIntegrity violation,\u201d here\u2019s what to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10425,10378],"tags":[12137,3491,13151,3492,11225,8274,10427,10433,1583],"class_list":["post-12224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kaspersky","category-security","tag-bugs","tag-kaspersky-anti-virus","tag-kaspersky-free","tag-kaspersky-internet-security","tag-kaspersky-total-security","tag-problems","tag-products","tag-support","tag-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}