News U.S. customers wake up to find Kaspersky antivirus sneakily replaced with UltraAV — switchover caught many users by surprise

[Admin]

Kaspersky antivirus abruptly uninstalls itself and installs UltraAV without asking customers.

U.S. customers wake up to find Kaspersky antivirus sneakily replaced with UltraAV — switchover caught many users by surprise : Read more

 

[Math Geek]

surprised? that's on them for sticking with the russian program in the first place. should have been avoiding it for the last decade at least. so changing the name to "trick" those same people is hardly a surprising move.

plenty of other options to go with, no reason to even entertain the idea of sticking with the russian spyware. i mean seriously, MS is spyware enough, no reason to share with the rest of the world.

 

[-Fran-]

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions".

Ask first. Why is that so hard to do for most Corps? Just ask and allow your users to choose what they want.

It doesn't matter where the Company or Software is from. This is scummy behaviour that happens all around and needs to stop.

Regards.

 

[rgd1101]

can't even find any review on UltraAV

 

[kerberos_20]

so it says us customers also received this email before it got switched

 

[rgd1101]

My guess is they found some av for cheap and pass them a few buck.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

My guess is they found some av for cheap and pass them a few buck.

More likely they just did a product name change internally and are now pushing it out.

 

[kerberos_20]

More likely they just did a product name change internally and are now pushing it out.

doesnt look like, had some look at kaspersky forums,fun read... that ultraav looks like unfinished product (barebone and UI bugs), its powered by maxsecure engine (indian), but performance is abysmall and barely catching anything

 

[husker]

Most client AV software is basically malware/bloatware/suckerware. That last term is one I made up but seems about right.

 

[rgd1101]

theregister have more info about UltraAV. what is our writer doing?

Kaspersky software replaced by 'UltraAV' on some US PCs

Back story to replacement for banned security app isn't enormously reassuring

www.theregister.com

 

[MisterZ]

Is Kaspersky still ok to use? I've been using it for the last 9 years.

 

[rgd1101]

Is Kaspersky still ok to use? I've been using it for the last 9 years.

is your up to date?

 

[MisterZ]

is your up to date?

Yes.

 

[dimar]

I thought Windows 11 Security is good enough.

 

[USAFRet]

I thought Windows 11 Security is good enough.

It is.

 

[zappa35]

I highly doubt that kaspersky gave user accounts to ultra av for free, so ultra av should be banned in the us for doing business with kaspersky since the sale and influence benefits russia. Not to mention the transition of which is a malware tactic, just short of the classic brain virus.

 

[Loadedaxe]

I haven't used an AV in 26 years. Last one I used was TrendMicro.