The concern isn't Kaspersky being a dirtbag, it's Putin legally mandating they become a dirtbag. That's how nation states and wars work. In fact, there's a sim

The concern isn't Kaspersky being a dirtbag, it's Putin legally mandating they become a dirtbag. That's how nation states and wars work. In fact, there's a similar concern that the EU has with the US. The US's CLOUD Act forces American tech companies to comply with US legal subpoenas in foreign jurisdictions, which means that said tech companies cannot also comply with GDPR data export rules. Hence, it's illegal to include US services on EU websites[0] until and unless the US either agrees to pass GDPR into US law (so that exported EU data is still protected) or repeals the CLOUD Act (so that localized EU data is legally untouchable by the FBI or CIA). The idea that we can treat a company as wholly separate from it's host nation is more of a legal fiction than anything else. It's not, in and of itself, russophobia. If the person running Kaspersky was trying to, say, flee Russia; and people said he couldnt't be trusted, then that would be russophobia. [0] Note: It is still legal for EU citizens to use those US services directly. This only covers data export by EU companies to third-parties.