Biden bans U.S. sales of Kaspersky software over Russia ties
Biden bans U.S. sales of Kaspersky software over Russia ties
Moscow’s influence over the company was found to pose a significant risk, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said.
Moscow’s influence over the company was found to pose a significant risk, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said.
The Biden administration on Thursday announced plans to bar the sale of antivirus software made by Russia’s Kaspersky Lab in the United States, citing the firm’s large U.S. customers, including critical infrastructure providers and state and local governments.
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Comrade, this is bad idea. Kaspersky is nice! Get rid of viruses, replace with friendly Russian rootkit. Is no problem!
Is kaspersky actually bad? I've always heard good things about it
For the most part, all anti virus software I've found that is pretty "mainstream" are bad or have backdoors built for bad people.
Macafee -absolute Spyware, delete it Kaspersky - Russian ties apparently - but I don't believe reports from Just the US, and they've been pretty integral to the security space for businesses for years. I'm not sold on them being 'bad' yet. Norton - not malware, but not good and going the Macafee route
I hear good things about BitDefender, and Windows Defender is mostly good enough for the average person + an adblocker and you're good to go.
In Russia, anti virus viruses virus