Kaspersky anti virus 2011 kernel panic- a warning to the wise on compatibility

Lately after all the malware scares including macdefender I decided to invest in kaspersky anti virus 2011.. Unfortunately I found that after i installed the program kernel panic after kernel panic because of Presumably compatibility issues (an updateed version has been released now) the installation became completely corrupted.
Great I thought.. So let's boot recovery hd to restore a time machine backup. Oops the recovery hd isn't on the boot select screen as expected but available be cause of filevault2 (constructive criticism apple perhaps a did you know or tooltip for commands would be useful on the boot up graphic?), which is ok if a little inconsistent in the design.
Right done.. So I managed to get to the stage of restoring my backup before reaching the spinning wheel of death during the restore process (probably wifi. Related). Only to find that the whole partition had been wiped including the recoveryHd.
Although this is to be expected you'd imagine that it would be a better failsafe incase of connectivity issue to clone the recovery hd partition locally first before looking to the time machine backup just in case. As in my case the perhaps self inflicted response was to restart the machine during the process because it had locked up.. Oops ok.
Right.. Snow leopard time. I'm now in the process of using the snow leopard disk which fortunately it seems can restore to lion backups after a somewhat drawn out process of self inflicted errors and somewhat obscured measures in lion (ambiguity of boot up modes, no failsafes in restore process).
Whilst I believe anti virus is a good measure in light of recent events, a word to the wise. Check compatibility first :).

A word to the wise, when you find something that is incompatible, inform the developer of the said software so they can issue a word of warning on their own website. Edit: Also a good developer can do an operating system check to see if their software is compatible upon installation, and warn the user not to install.

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