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Bob Sutherton
Bob Sutherton
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Posted by Bob Sutherton
Bob Sutherton
20,160 Points

XAMPP triggered Kaspersky Anti-Virus

I was using XAMPP and a message popped up from Kaspersky saying that a threat was detected. I of course clicked on the alert and it ran through it's thing ultimately restarting my computer.

Now XAMPP won't work. MySQL will start but Apache will not.

I am going to try uninstalling and reinstalling XAMPP but I have a feeling that whatever Kaspersky did is not going to let Apache back through without a fight.

Any advice?

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Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

Hi James,

Over the years I've seen very similar things happen and ultimately it comes down to false positives which in my eyes is a very common thing in Kaspersky and has yet to be resolved as I personally use ESET and have no issues with it, XAMPP in general however is perfectly safe to use so I would recommend during the install process you have all protection disabled and re-enable it once the install is complete and that should work.