[TriLUG] OT: Windows Anti-Virus

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 7:42 AM, Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG
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> On Wed, 25 Jul 2018, Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG wrote:
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>>> Hint: the country that Kaspersky calls home is probably a factor.
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>> this is just innuendo.
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> Kaspersky doesn't hide that it's required to hand over any new malware it finds to the Russian govt. If Kaspersky was evil, it would not have told the world about the malware it found on the contractor's laptop.
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      AFAIK that is also done here and in the UK just to name two
countries. Perhaps not as officially as in there but in the end of the
day...

Remember that certain governments like to "persuade" software
developers to have backdoors on their software.

> If Kasperky's relationship with the Russian govt was a problem for users, then anti-virus vendors in free countries would have leapt to declare that they are not doing the same thing, but there was silence from all of them. I note that you present no evidence that other vendors are clean in this respect.
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> Kaspersky played a large part in exposing Stuxnet. They're doing a good job in keeping the world free from malware.
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> Joe
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