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German Government Agency warns about using Kaspersky
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#32I will go on the record here and one-up them, warning against the use of any antivirus product. SO many vulns and gaping, smoking holes in that kind of software over the years, it's not even funny. Faux-security is what most vendors are peddling. https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1427935182200492039 is one of my favourite bugs from recent years. I acknowledge this bug is not specific to an antivirus product (but…
It's definitely reasonable at this point to just skip using AV. It won't protect users from bad security habits and it tends to make your system performance worse even if it doesn't have vulnerabilities. I have Windows Defender enabled on my machines since it comes with the OS (and work policy requires it), but I definitely had to exclude most of my work folders to be able to get work done. It would be nice to have s…
First I skipped using Antivirus altogether, but now I opted for intermediate solution using Microsoft's native Antivirus Defender. At least this is fairly guaranteed to be compatible with Windows itself. Regarding firewall: I don't trust Windows anymore - using an external HW firewall on my router (opnsense).
Re: German Government Agency warns about using Kaspersky
#33So they basically say Russia can spy on you if using Kaspersky (but the German government, or its "allies", can't). Then, I guess that using Kaspersky is a wise decision unless you happen to live in Russia or Ukraine. Dowloading ;-)
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#34I warn about using any kind of snake oil. Often sold under the marking terms "antivirus" or "personal firewall" or "cloud cyber security". Known side effects of this treatment are high CPU load, high RAM consumption, drain of battery power. Sometimes they also consume your money or looking at your data. So far I would consider other counter measures, like applying user rights, proper package management and re-conside…
"If you're forced to use Windows the one with the least known side effects is Microsoft Security Essentials but even this has several drawbacks." But permanently disabling it is very, very hard.
> But permanently disabling it is very, very hard.
I installed linux in a new machine just last week
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#35It's curious to look on at this situation from Linux. Perhaps I shouldn't be too comfortable but it's really a different world. I suppose that one should take care which distribution one uses as that is also an effective entry point for software from the outside but at least a bit more obvious and open than some AV company.
As a 25 year Mac user, I concur. I'm just glad that Microsoft eventually decided to bring antivirus in-house, and I don't ever again have to mess with 3rd-party security products for my Windows box
Though some say that Windows Defender is one of the easiest AV's to bypass.
I wonder though if Microsoft Defender ATP and Virtualization-Based Security makes it more difficult.
Re: German Government Agency warns about using Kaspersky
#36I will go on the record here and one-up them, warning against the use of any antivirus product. SO many vulns and gaping, smoking holes in that kind of software over the years, it's not even funny. Faux-security is what most vendors are peddling. https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1427935182200492039 is one of my favourite bugs from recent years. I acknowledge this bug is not specific to an antivirus product (but…
It's definitely reasonable at this point to just skip using AV. It won't protect users from bad security habits and it tends to make your system performance worse even if it doesn't have vulnerabilities. I have Windows Defender enabled on my machines since it comes with the OS (and work policy requires it), but I definitely had to exclude most of my work folders to be able to get work done. It would be nice to have s…
> to have backups
With the usual additional notes: unless you include an off-site, an off-line (or at least soft-offline) backup, and your backups get tested regularly enough, you don't have a backup system, you have aspirations & hopes!
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For your valuable information anyway. For most individuals the core “it would really inconvenience my life if I lost it” data is surprisingly small¹, and the next layer (“losing it would really annoy me”) is only a few tens of Gb². For personal use everything else in the grand scheme of things can be reacquired or won't be massively missed, things are a bit different for businesses of course.
[1] password store, financial details & other officialdom, code & docs for personal projects that might come to something else [2] meaningful digital photos & such
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
"If you're forced to use Windows the one with the least known side effects is Microsoft Security Essentials but even this has several drawbacks." But permanently disabling it is very, very hard.
> But permanently disabling it is very, very hard. I installed linux in a new machine just last week
Congratulations, me too.
But that didn't help me with the linux driver issues for my laptop. Nor does linux run adobe animate, or a bunch of other software.
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#38It’s been interesting to note how Kaspersky has been responding to the scrutiny. It’s almost always the same - ”we have been audited a huge amount of times and no-one has ever found anything!”
It’s suspicious because as someone who is a vendor of risk management, they’re leaving out the gaping hole fact which is that software is updateable and oftentimes AV will do so automatically. Potent risk is pretty huge.
Same applies also to the Huawei discourse.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Jetbrains was already banned at the department of defense and many other companies in the wake of previous hacks where they were suspected as the entry point.
Can you expand on this, perhaps with a link to documentation about this?
I used The Google and found these links:
0. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/russia-cyber-...
1. https://www.securityweek.com/investigation-launched-role-jet...
2. https://www.zdnet.com/article/jetbrains-denies-being-involve...
Re: German Government Agency warns about using Kaspersky
#40I warn about using any kind of snake oil. Often sold under the marking terms "antivirus" or "personal firewall" or "cloud cyber security". Known side effects of this treatment are high CPU load, high RAM consumption, drain of battery power. Sometimes they also consume your money or looking at your data. So far I would consider other counter measures, like applying user rights, proper package management and re-conside…
Though actually I installed kapersky free edition on an older comouter because it was fairly light and well behaved. Has a good reputation for catching things too. But yes I should really think about removing it now and I'm sure we all have sympathy for the trusting victims who paid to upgrade their bundled mccafee/Norton/sympatec and were worse off for paying extra....