[who_would_fardels_bear]

People stopped using Kaspersky years ago because of “Russia! Russia! Russia!”

[Political Junkie Too]

Kaspersky got a bad rap and was called Russian spyware when it caught documents that two different NSA contractors illegally took home and put on their home computers. The NSA puts a little piece of code into their electronic documents to identify the documents, and Kaspersky's heuristic analyzer found this and reported it as potential spyware.

Because the heuristic analyzer sends bits of code to their home servers for deep analysis, the NSA initially tried to cover up the crimes of their contractors by calling Kaspersky Russian spyware. Eventually, the FBI worked with Kaspersky to catch the NSA thieves, and Kaspersky ultimately moved their servers out of Russia to avoid the appearance of working with Russian intelligence.

-PJ