News U.S. bans Kaspersky and hands out sanctions to execs — 100 days until class-leading antivirus ban takes effect

[Admin]

Antivirus company Kaspersky Labs and several subsidiaries were banned from U.S. operations on Thursday, and customers had 100 days to find an alternative. The U.S. also sanctioned 12 executives.

U.S. bans Kaspersky and hands out sanctions to execs — 100 days until class-leading antivirus ban takes effect : Read more

 

[kookykrazee]

I thought they were banned years ago?

 

[uplink-svk]

So...ESET, McAfee, Norton, etc. have no govt. backdoors in them? Backdoor free, guarding democracy and stuff?

Or are backdoors of other countries other than big, bad, evil Russia and China allowed and fine?

 

[TheOtherOne]

So...ESET, McAfee, Norton, etc. have no govt. backdoors in them? Backdoor free, guarding democracy and stuff?

Or are backdoors of other countries other than big, bad, evil Russia and China allowed and fine?

When "we" do it, it's good for national security. When "others" do it, it's very bad for national security. 😉

 

[Viking2121]

Well, I'm still gonna use my copy of the Kaspersky free virus removal tool, its saved a few of my clients computers to get their data back off it where otherwise was not possible.

 

[_Shatta_AD_]

US just doing what US doing best, tsk tsk

 

[Pei-chen]

I think someone said 40% of the world is under some kind of American sanctions

 

[ingtar33]

this was known in the 00's when Kaspersky first hit the markets. everyone and their brother was joking about it being Russian spyware. then a broad section of the internet and tech journalism started preaching the value of Kaspersky as if it was the greatest AV in existence all at once, and anyone who said it was Russian spyware was treated as a conspiracy theorist.

Of course it was an excellent security product for the 00's, far better then most anything else on the market at the time... for the 00's... so it's not like they were wrong.

Then to no one's surprise around 2014? i think... new broke that Kaspersky was, guess what? Russian spyware with ties to their intelligence service. not a surprise to anyone though.

Kaspersky was banned from US Government computers and eventually that ban was extended to the whole defense industry and industrial players in it. This nationwide ban was a long time coming.

 

[ingtar33]

I think someone said 40% of the world is under some kind of American sanctions

well china and russia are a huge portion of the world. both in population and land mass, pretty sure that's the majority of your 40%