Posted on 03/29/2022 4:22:45 AM PDT by nuconvert
The Moscow-based cybersecurity firm, which says it has more than 400 million users worldwide, was added to the Federal Communications Commission’s list of restricted entities on Friday alongside two Chinese companies.
Now that Kaspersky is on the list — which also includes Huawei and China Telecom, among other Chinese firms — American businesses are banned from buying its products or services using federal subsidies.
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Ummmm....how come anyone’s still using Kapersky? I thought it was known for years to be Russian spy software.
Apparently the FCC needed a lot of convincing before it made that determination.
Would you trust an American company not to spy on you?
If it’s designed right, you won’t be able to uninstall it. It will make you think you have.
“Ummmm....how come anyone’s still using Kapersky? I thought it was known for years to be Russian spy software.”
Probably because it is the best in the business and most people don’t feel threatened if Russia reads their Instantgram posts. Nor does Kapersky annoy you every 5 minutes like McAfee does, if they don’t think you’re paying enough.
Kaspersky case and cyber espionage: how Russia opened the Pandora’s box 11/03/2017
https://informnapalm.org/en/kaspersky-case-and-cyber-espionage-how-russia-opened-the-pandoras-box/
“If it’s designed right, you won’t be able to uninstall it. It will make you think you have.”
That is becoming a problem for all OS now. Just had that happen while uninstalling Brave from Linux. No matter how secure I set all the settings, Etherape was catching it connecting to google anyhow. And the configurations were overriding and monitoring my other browsers even when I was not using Brave.
But to support what you are saying here, the remove command did not fully remove it, those unwanted configurations remained. I had to then run the purge command to fully remove those configurations. I “think” it did anyhow, says it did. But considering rolling back to before I installed it to make sure.
But like you say, the “stealth” fake uninstall is becoming a problem.
yep Linux
I don’t use Linux, but that’s interesting. I would have not expected that. MS Windows is horrible in that the registry gets altered with you install apps and sometimes it’s impossible to fix without doing a rollback.
On the IMB i platform you have libraries where you can place apps and the apps programs can reside exclusively in that library. Delete the library and everything is gone. But it’s a commercial business computer so not everyone uses IBM i. :)
The issues about Kaspersky has been known for a long time, this article is from 2013:
Obviously, installing software that runs with high privileges always comes at some risk. But Kaspersky Anti-Virus, the option “I agree to participate in Kaspersky Security Network” (KSN) is enabled by default, meaning that there can be no misunderstanding that quite a lot of information is collected by Kaspersky.
Sounds like a “sandbox” situation similar to running a VM. There are a few apps for Linux that will do similar for you. I think I am going to play with these a bit. An app called “firetools” is supposed to do that for you. Runs everything in a contained Sandbox that can just be deleted in whole along with everything in it.
I couldn’t get fireworks running wheni tried it (back in Linux jint 17 or so)-
I think fireworks as a different app than “Firetools”. I haven’t tried it yet but will later or tomorrow. But Firetools is a GUI version of “Firejail”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlkVVy_YKg0
Thanks for the ping Shadow
My autocorrect spelled it fireworks, but meant firejail- I tried the firetools too. Can’t remember now why I couldn’t get it working.
If the US government is against it I tend to be more in favor of it. I bet they don’t like my Tor browser either.
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