Windows 10: Best Buy halts sale of Kaspersky products amid Russian spying fears

Note some UK banks (e.g. Barclays) offer their customers a free licence to use Kaspersky Internet Security. I would hope Barclays has considered the security implications of their offer?

 

I was leery of Kaspersky because of his Russian government connection and his past in the hacking world. For that reason I passed on it several years ago and went with ESET.

 

I don't think the question is where the software was bought, but with the software itself, boxed or downloaded.

 

ESET is an IT security company that offers anti-virus and firewall products such as ESET NOD32. It was founded in 1992. ESET is headquartered in Bratislava, Slovakia,

 

Yeah, and..........? I have found no connections to the Russian government in its history, or even allegations. I have read nothing about it that says it was set up and created by a known hacker. Matter of fact, everything I have found and read says the company is about as above board as any US based company. Considering McAfee's checkered past, I'd say more above board.

 

"Matter of fact, everything I have found and read says the company is about as above board as any US based company."
*ROFLMAO2*ROFLMAO2*ROFLMAO2
Those same above board US companies that poison your water and food, throw you out in the street, coupled with the capricious actions of a health insurance industry that move the goal posts nightly to deny you health care that you paid for in good faith.
*ROFLMAO2*ROFLMAO2*ROFLMAO2

 

McAfee hasn't had anything to do with the AV that carries his name for many years, Intel owns it.
McAfee - Wikipedia

 

I have been gone from TenForums for 2 years. I had forgotten about the pedantic hair-splitting that can go on.

 

I thought we were talking anti-virus programs and trustworthiness, not the general status of mankind, Greenpeace diatribes and the business tactics of an industry that has nothing to do with security programs outside of using them on their employee PCs.

 

I would use Kaspersky over any AV that came out of Oz.


*ROFLMAO2*ROFLMAO2*ROFLMAO2*Kill*Kill*Roflmao2*Roflmao2*Focus*Focus*Focus*Tongue Out

 

I hope they will continue to do so and not get swayed by this partisan hysteria. The only reason why this is being brought up about Kaspersky is because they're outside the control of the NSA and other Western security agencies, who have a history of seeking backdoors and the whitelisting of their own malware in security products that they can intimidate.

I'm more worried by the backdoors that my government seeks in such products than that done by the Russian government, who don't directly affect me. Still, let the silly "reds under the beds" hysterical distraction continue.

 

I'm still none the wiser whether Kaspersky anti-virus is 'safe' to use from this and other threads.

I continue to use Kaspersky software since I have a free licence and it has some useful features. I've also enabled Windows Defender Periodic Scanning as a further safeguard and do monthly scans with AdwCleaner and Malwarebytes (free version).

I've had no known problems to date unless the US software I'm using has missed the Russian backdoors!

 

FBI wants US businesses to stop using Kaspersky software

Kaspersky Lab Has Been Working With Russian Intelligence - Bloomberg

 

Shouldn't we install, at least one anti-virus from every country on our systems, so the PC Social Justice Warriors Buttheads don't get triggered?*ROFLMAO2

 

I suspect there is more than a helping of fake news in all this paranoia. *Wink