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They're literally a contractor and consultant to russian military.
https://informnapalm.org/en/alabugaleaks-part-2-kaspersky-la...
Some percentage of customers won't bother to switch to a competing product, letting the stale signatures linger instead, and ironically that'll make them more vulnerable to hackers and state adversaries.
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You are raising a "what about" question here. "If you do this then what-about that?" Or perhaps "before you do this perhaps worry about that."
But these issues are completely unrelated. One is political (and trivial to deal with) another is technical (and a vastly bigger, and more complicated topic).
For starters if congress set out to "prevent spyware", I'd suggest they lack the skillset to even define "spyware" much less the technical expertise to effectively ban it in some way. I certainly would not expect them to somehow ban "spyware" whole at the same time leabing all "not spyware" unaffected.
This article talks about some possible reasons:
https://www.wired.com/story/us-kaspersky-ban-evidence/
> Stories in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have since cited anonymous sources accusing Kaspersky of siphoning American secrets, including the files of an NSA staffer, to its own servers, where the Russian government then accessed them.
To be clear, the article doesn't consider this a smoking gun, and instead is demanding a more concrete statement of the government's reasons.
But, personally, I'm completely fine with erring on the side of not trusting a security company operating in Russia with access to my computer. Let's say Kaspersky has the most honest and best intentions in the world, and would never voluntarily cooperate with Putin's government to spy on or harm foreign computers. Does anyone think their protests would matter at all, if push came to shove? This is like the TikTok argument, but with a more obvious attack vector if the software came under direct control of a hostile government.
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That's quite the stretch.
Serious question: do people still use antivirus software?
That AV software has very poor performance. It significantly slows down the DLL/file loading. And the firewall component just simply add delay to all HTTP requests. The “Exclusion” function is also useless as expected. It cost me a lot of meaningless time to investigate the performance issue reported by customers.
And you cannot even imagine that as an AV software, their self-protection component is running as a simple Windows service. You can easily disable that by setting a wrong user account to that service. After restart, you can do whatever you want.
Honestly, if I am the one who writes virus. I would give credit to the company who make such poor antivirus software and sell to thousands of customers. They do make life easier.
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See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
(A Russian bad-faith technique used to defend Russian software — what could be more fitting?)