Kaspersky and Russia could hurt the USA

Yea, I have always avoided them and told my clients to avoid them for my own version of this reasoning.

I assumed that a Russian company that makes software that hooks in that deep into the OS really has no business in my PC. It isn't so much the Kaspersky company as it is the Russian spy engine that would secretly backdoor it. I know I would if I was involved in that spy engine.

Having a somewhat shared space program with Russia and a Russian first lady, I am beginning to wonder what the hell is going on.

I was kinda hoping we would establish normal commercial ties and civil ties before we just bent over and cuffed our own hands to our ankles.
 
I use Avira on my main rig (Win 7) which is ill and needs a new power supply which leaves me on my server 2008 in which I use Clamwin and an occasional Malwarebytes scan.
 
Like Russia needs an AV company to access data, they are already in any relevant and important systems anyways, all thanks to Microsoft's own insecure code...

I guess next the U.S won't be taking any computers built outside of the U.S, no more Foxconn hardware made in asia, might be bugged!
 
Well, considering the last few days of security releases, right now Intel firmware and Microsoft antivirus incompetence are the biggest threats to US computers by a mile.

AV engine that can be exploited just from scanning a very simple bit of code without any user interaction, 7+ year old backdoor in enterprise BMC firmware that needs no password. Use the former to walk into the network, from there use the latter to bootkit most of it permanently.

[insert star trek triple facepalm here]
 
MrGuvernment said:
Like Russia needs an AV company to access data, they are already in any relevant and important systems anyways, all thanks to Microsoft's own insecure code...

I guess next the U.S won't be taking any computers built outside of the U.S, no more Foxconn hardware made in asia, might be bugged!
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Not sure what rock you live under but, the US government has been watching out for Russian access for quite some time. And the US government has a mandate that programs use TAA compliant systems. Especially for any secure work.

As for the rest of the US, that is really up to the citizens and companies and what they wish to do.
 
It could be even worse...
Just think if just about every key part in your computer (like the CPU, chipset and operative system) was designed and/or manufactured in the same potentially hostile foreign country. How bad wouldn't that be for security?
Oh wait... it is!
 
As I'm making investigations into DPC latency, got hit with it recently in the new Mass Effect: Andromeda game with a lot of sound popping, I'm noticing that AV products including Kaspersky can contribute to it, if you need another reason to not use their solution :D.

(on the other hand, I do feel sorry for Kaspersky, as they do seem to put out an otherwise effective and well-reviewed product)
 
NoOther said:
Not sure what rock you live under but, the US government has been watching out for Russian access for quite some time. And the US government has a mandate that programs use TAA compliant systems. Especially for any secure work.

As for the rest of the US, that is really up to the citizens and companies and what they wish to do.
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not living under any rocks, I am fully aware the US would be watching Russia as Russia watches them and god knows how many other countries. Also, mandate away, but I would not put it past a foreign power to try to slip something in..
 
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