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What was so bad about Kaspersky that you consider it good riddance? I recall reading about legitimate good security work and breach investigations from them jus
by throwaway613834 9y ago
What was so bad about Kaspersky that you consider it good riddance? I recall reading about legitimate good security work and breach investigations from them just a few years ago. It's not like anybody forced you to use their software.
- weberc2 9y agoFor whatever it's worth, my employer forced me to use their software. My 2015 MacBook Pro would regularly grind to a halt. We recently switched, hopefully for the better.
- paulie_a 9y agoI agree on the high quality research etc but personally I dropped Kaspersky products for the same reason as the original Norton Antivirus products, they became obnoxiously loud with unnecessary notifications. Kaspersky ramped up their annoying notifications that I went from recommending it in small corporate environments to not even mentioning it. Antivirus/antimalware is incredibly important, but it should generally be silent and protect a system.
- adamnemecek 9y agoThe fact that they collaborate with the Russian gov't secret services.
- throwaway613834 9y agoYou mean you can't even stand their mere existence even without ever actually touching any of their products? Note that I'm not asking why you're not installing their antivirus, I'm asking why you don't want them to exist...
- adamnemecek 9y agoI don’t because they are collaborating with a fundamentally dictatorial gov’t.
- pabloski 9y agoAre you referring to the US Deep State? The one who has secret FISA courts and secret laws to protect the NSA?
- mattmanser 9y agoIf you want a slightly more nuanced understanding of Russia, I found this quite good as a crash course to why Russians like Putin: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b097l4s7/russia-with-simon-reeve-series-1-episode-2 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b097l4s7/russia-with-si...
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