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Kaspersky deletes itself, installs UltraAV antivirus without warning
- novolunt 2y ago[dead]
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- _lvbh 2y ago> Not much is known about UltraAV besides being part of Pango Group, which controls multiple VPN brands (e.g., Hotspot Shield, UltraVPN, and Betternet) and Comparitech (a VPN software review website). I recognize these names. For a long time after VPNs like Mullvad, ExpressVPN, ProtonVPN, etc were removed from Chinese app stores, Betternet and Hotspot shield was still there. I’ve heard them referred to as whitelisted and monitored. Would not trust this company.
- N19PEDL2 2y agoI would bet UltraAV is some kind of Russian/Chinese spyware.
- AStonesThrow 2y agoIs there any anti-malware suite on the market that is not collecting and sending back telemetry to its master? I give admin-level access to this stuff (or Windows/Play has it already) and it has an all-access pass to all activity, including reading my screen and every web page. So the only difference between that and "spyware" is semantics, connotation, and trust.
- Charon77 2y agoClamAV is open source
- AStonesThrow 2y agoThat was not the premise, and I see no relation between license and telemetry. That being said, I used to run ClamAV, and as I understood it, it was far from a complete security suite, only a scanner, and had no reason to communicate with anything. Also, it never gave me anything but false positives, flagging image files (jpg, png) on my Linux system with obsolete/benign win32 malware. I wasn't running win32. Idiots.
- dizhn 2y agoclamav is used as a network based scanner. It's not unreasonable for it to flag windows malware on a Linux host.
- AStonesThrow 2y agoIndeed, that's the idea, such as protecting the users of an MTA/POP3 host. That's not what I was running, and ClamAV cannot replace Windows Defender, McAfee or Norton, no matter how freakin' free its source is. Honestly.
- dizhn 2y agoI don't run antivirus on my desktop but you're probably right. They don't have the resources to be an all around antivirus solution. Their engine does have value beyond antivirus though. For example I am using it with non-virus signatures to block various malicious email types.
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- ilconsigliere 2y agoAnd so, Kasperskys final act was to operate as overt malware