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Kaspersky is undoubtedly one of most interesting companies in the antivirus space, if not the one. They do a lot of research and they push things forward instea

Kaspersky is undoubtedly one of most interesting companies in the antivirus space, if not the one. They do a lot of research and they push things forward instead of just scaremongering their userbase into buying annual subscriptions to a bloatware like Symantec does. That being said, they do ship some really buggy stuff that is an absolute pain to deal with. For a couple of years I had to deal with support of a networking application and every time a new type of bug report cropped up, the first question was "do you have Kaspersky installed" inevitably followed by "yes, we do." I just can't tell how many men-hours were sunk into chasing problems that were ultimately created by bugs in their resident antivirus shields. It was few years ago, perhaps things have changed for the better.

Natsu 14y ago
Their competitor, Symantec, just bluescreened a lot of corporate XP machines the other week, so it doesn't take much for Kaspersky to look good in comparison.
cantrevealname 14y ago
They do a lot of research and they push things forward Indeed, Kaspersky is superb. And if you're in the US, I have another reason to recommend Kaspersky: It is most unlikely that US law enforcement agencies such as the FBI could convince a Russian AV company to whitelist FBI spyware. Nor will the Russian government cooperate. Can you imagine the Russian government saying to Kaspersky, "Yeah, sure, ignore the FBI's trojan horse, don't flag it". Of course the Russian government would have leverage to plant its spyware in Russian-made AV. So you would think that buying Russian vs buying American makes no difference. Not so! Think about motivations: If you're an American, the Russian government doesn't care if you cheated on your tax, if you downloaded Hollywood movies, etc. Buying your security from a different jurisdiction is a way to minimize risk.

Natsu 14y ago

Their competitor, Symantec, just bluescreened a lot of corporate XP machines the other week, so it doesn't take much for Kaspersky to look good in comparison.

cantrevealname 14y ago

They do a lot of research and they push things forward Indeed, Kaspersky is superb. And if you're in the US, I have another reason to recommend Kaspersky: It is most unlikely that US law enforcement agencies such as the FBI could convince a Russian AV company to whitelist FBI spyware. Nor will the Russian government cooperate. Can you imagine the Russian government saying to Kaspersky, "Yeah, sure, ignore the FBI's trojan horse, don't flag it". Of course the Russian government would have leverage to plant its spyware in Russian-made AV. So you would think that buying Russian vs buying American makes no difference. Not so! Think about motivations: If you're an American, the Russian government doesn't care if you cheated on your tax, if you downloaded Hollywood movies, etc. Buying your security from a different jurisdiction is a way to minimize risk.