onbox 5 Report post Posted September 22, 2017 Last week, a piece of news shook the IT world. The US government had banned federal agencies from using security software from Russian company Kaspersky as the Department of Homeland Security was worried about potential connections between Kaspersky and the Russian secret service. In an unprecedented move, all Kaspersky software now has to be removed from all government PCs within 150 days. Looking closer, a couple a questions arise the most important of which is: is there anything left that is safe to install? Read more... https://blog.ashampoo.com/en/2017-09-19/the-case-against-kaspersky-a-cold-war-on-our-pcs Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Peter2150 43 Report post Posted September 23, 2017 I would say Kasperksy is still safe. I don't lilke it and it slows down my machine, but safe yes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Da Phu 23 Report post Posted September 23, 2017 U.S.A don't like Russia for a long time man, because Russian involves pretty much everything from war to security to peace conflict. I think we all born in the wrong generation man. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
True Indian 4 Report post Posted October 8, 2017 NSA lost multiple remote 0day's for multiple platforms/architectures then people speculate a company that first DETECTED them is toast. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
emwul64 1 Report post Posted May 30, 2018 On 9/22/2017 at 9:38 PM, onbox said: Last week, a piece of news shook the IT world. The US government had banned federal agencies from using security software from Russian company Kaspersky as the Department of Homeland Security was worried about potential connections between Kaspersky and the Russian secret service. In an unprecedented move, all Kaspersky software now has to be removed from all government PCs within 150 days. Looking closer, a couple a questions arise the most important of which is: is there anything left that is safe to install? Read more... https://blog.ashampoo.com/en/2017-09-19/the-case-against-kaspersky-a-cold-war-on-our-pcs Kaspersky does have a problem... Not sure whether 'moving a number of "core processes" from Russia to Switzerland' will solve this. For the Dutch Government, it doesn't matter. UK government bans all Russian anti-virus software from Secret-rated systemsTwitter bans Kaspersky Lab from advertising its solutions on the platform citing DHS ban for its alleged ties with the Russian intelligence. Dutch government to phase out use of Kaspersky anti-virus software Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Adham.Hazimeh 0 Report post Posted May 31, 2018 hey guys. This is the very first reply i ever write, i just read what u guys were saying and i concluded something, all the new hassle about the new malware filter Russian **** that has recently hit the web? that is Russia's reply to USA's action against Russian security products. and guess what,,.... Kaspersky will be the 1st, if not only AV Solution that will be able to remove it through it network scan service whatever its name was. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites