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What to Do About Kaspersky Antivirus
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- Опубликовано: 14 авг 2024
- ❌ Any software company with ties outside the U.S. comes under scrutiny. Should you be worried?
❌ Kaspersky: now what?
Because of ongoing political concerns and the upcoming U.S. ban on Kaspersky, it’s time to uninstall it. There’s no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing, but using an alternative like Microsoft Security (Windows Defender) avoids possible risks and keeps you safe after Kaspersky is no longer being updated.
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If you're worried about spying, then you shouldn't be using anything Microsoft or Adobe, or Facebook, or Apple, or what else?
If you're truly worried about spying, you probably shouldn't be online. There are arguments for every "but what about?" alternative being susceptible to spying.
Correct, the USA, UK and Five Eyes is a far greater danger to us than Russia or China. The lawlessness of the Security State and their corporate fronts is the greater red flag. At this point, I am a Russophile and Sinophile -- at the least, there is some advantage to using potentially compromised services from an alternate jurisdiction.
you also shouldn't use proprietary software in general.
Kapersky has been fine for a long time. Now it's not.
Follow the money.
If you're in business, then the less competition you have is ideal.
Now you have to find an alternative hopefully trustworthy.
Edward Snowden revealed that you can not even trust your own countrymen.
This is a power move to get us to adopt some other protection deemed safe by our lords and masters so that they get access unto themselves.
@@shallex5744 it's all proprietary that's why not all software has the same name an no mater what your connecting through it's a given that your gonna have to give up a certain amount of privacy in order to connect.
Canadian here. Before buying their Internet Suite decades ago and their newer iterations since, I had bought other brands, the better-regarded products by CNET, PC Mag, Consumer Reports and had problems a couple of times. Not once with Kaspersky, for whom I only have praises for their products and platforn. I've recommended it to others who all have had the same experiences. I hope Canada doesn't end up copying what the US is doing.
I live in Ontario, Canada, and I've been using it for years. It saved my computer from a few potential problems. I have renewed recently.
I've had a similar experience. Aside from the Son of the Red Scare, I've never heard anything negative about the company or software, and I've never run into any problems. I'm concerned about what this means for Canadians, and whether or not our protection and updates will be cut off.
My choice of Kaspersky was specifically BECAUSE it's outside the US.
I'm much more concerned with US agencies spying at my data than I am about
Russia.
[this all strikes me as political grandstanding]
You can use some non-totalitarian antivirus come from other non-totalitarian countries...
Your personal data couldn't be interesting for russians but they will use your computer as penetrate corporate network of your employer.
@@Pavlo-ho9ww "-We ban you from using this software" "-Why?" "-Because we have CONSERNS" - sounds so "non-totalitarian" FREEDOM like.
@@Ailasher I didn't provide any thoughts regarding that "ban". M.b. i could be agreed with yours.
There might be a reason for concern if it wasn't for KasperskyUSA in Massachusetts, so you're not getting software straight from Russia, it's made here in the US. I believe the real reason for it being banned is it has given the US Alphabet agencies a major problem try to get through it for years.
Kaspersky would have to go some lengths to cause as much damage as CrowdStrike did in one day.
I've not used Kaspersky for years. Microsoft Defender works just fine.
@@BritishBeachcomber yes Microsoft acquired Defender back in the XP days & integrated it into Windows. Malware written in mind with Defender hence I prefer 3rd party AV&FW. I also like to strip out Windows spyware that comes with it. PS: Also Microsoft could one day put an end to all AV's & label them unsupported considering they have their own AV & FW built into Windows.
Defender is very bad
You know how easy it is for malware just to add an exclusion or just disable it if you think Microsoft defender works just fine you definitely fall for Nigerian inheritance emails
Странно что электронику произведенную в Китае еще не до конца запретили. Вшить в биос не или еще в какую деталь и никто не заметит.
I like how the U.S government doesn't agree with Russia or China dictatorship but now they force users to stop using programs, so whose dictating now. Also if there was no war in Russia would Kaspersky still be not recommended?
Nothing to do at all - I live in the UK and am very happy with the application.
I will be interested to see if your country blocks KAV in the coming months. Historically we sometimes move in lockstep, as it pertains to major world events
@@AthoniteNot only in the UK, but also in other NATO countries
I have been using Kaspersky for years now without problem. It would be hard to leave it because is the only one that do not hit hard on system resources like other antiviruses.
False
@@cpu_UP In my experience Kaspersky actually has a fairly light footprint on the system. I suppose your mileage may vary.
3:45 you had a golden opportunity to say, "You can't handle the truth!"
I used Kaspersky since 1997, almost 30 years and in all that time it provided excellent security for my systems. That said this ban has forced my hand and I have switched to Bitdefender Antivirus Plus and will likely stay with it.
@@hpguru it's a pity Kaspersky has done so much work opening transparency center in Switzerland & opening offices with software written specifically for US & EU to totally comply with their rules.
PC Security Channel has proved Kaspersky is the best AV.
I started using it at version 1.0, with win 3.11 and XP. I never had any issues, and even paid for it once. I did drop it about 4 years ago, I got tired
of the upgrade nags. The few times that I use windows, it seems like defender is doing what it should be doing.
I was talking to a cyber security guy this last Friday about this very issues. Why? Because he uses it and I once did too. His response, China and Russia have most of your information right now. 🤔🥺
They can do it Russian way: after 2022 soon after «leaving» Russia most of companies just reopened under new names and continue to do the same things as they was doing before 2022.
Except it has nothing to do with politics, it's just the usual elimination of a competitor.
Be more concerned about the US government.
True
I also can tell you guys that WinRAR & 7-Zip also Russian made. MSI Afterburner also Russian routes from RivaTuner days. Russia have some really good software developer programmers & applications. We also have Yandex that is literally a Google replacement with RUclips, Search, Cloud etc etc.
All true. I hate seeing our relations go backwards, Russia has been our friend for most of my lifetime. I think the concern for those applications is less, because they aren't as low-level as an antivirus, which is a benevolent rootkit. I think this advisory was made out of a theoretical fear of cyberware risk, no actual evidence.
@@Athonite I think it's done to financially hurt Kaspersky how more transparent can they be they made transparency center in Switzerland. They opened offices & written specific software just for US & EU to fully comply with the rules. Banning them from normal civilians is ridiculous. I would understand the government sector. Anyhow whenever we upload our data to Internet it's always at risk.
Archive compression software does not require installation in the core system kernel like antivirus software. The risk is much lower. Antivirus software has access to all the files on your computer.
AFAIK, the author of WinRAR, Eugene Roshal, lives in Germany now. The copyright holder though is Alexander Roshal, who is his brother. I assume he is in Germany as well. From what I remember, they are ethnic Germans, who relocated to Germany in early '90s.
@@andys.9300alex rochal is still a citizen of Russia, never took German citizenship, lives mostly in Russia, the company is registered in Germany because of EU bs,
What access does the US government have might be a more important question.
Is the US government a dictatorship with a lunatic as it's god emperor, that not only is letting people disappear but also want's centuries old border back? I don't think so.
In what sense? Would the US sabotage its own infrastructure? Power grid? Emergency services network? Healthcare system? I live in Europe and if I had to choose who may spy on me, I choose the US.
The US government can access everything via the SOC and CPU. Direct access, only when china exposed the framework did Intel and AMD patch the CPU, but that access was decades old.
Windows Defender + Sandoxie + free version of Malwarebytes. 👍👍👍
have the first 2. might try adding malbytes
i have Avast and Malwarebytes free version... what's Sandoxie ????
People are using windows 11 , Facebook etc and concerned about spying 😂😂. Operating system of your pc and search engine on your browser is also Spyware like Kaspersky.
I'm going to lose two years of a Kaspersky subscription for 3 computers. I doubt the government is going to reimburse me for my loss. I don't know if they can spy, but I don't have any information on my computer that a nation state would be interested in.
You might have to set up a VPN to get the updates!😲
or is your subscription usable until it comes up to renew ???
I trust kaspersky over the U.S. government any day!
Idiots who have not lived in the Soviet Union can make such nonsense. I can not. I also can't see how a former KGB officer can be independent of the government in Russia. You can get your US government paranoia...
Hi Leo, thank you for another interesting and great material! You're doing a fantastic job! Regarding the topic, what are your thoughts on iconic ThinkPad laptops? Is it possible that China/Lenovo is spying and collecting data about users?
I _think_ I seem to recall Kaspersky detecting and downloading attack tools kept on a NSA contractor's computer, and those exploits used in the construction of some attack malware (Wannacry?).
Maybe I'm misremembering …
Since I never trusted it in the beginning, and never allowed it to be installed, I don't have to worry about it.
I quit paying for antivirus about a year after Microsoft got serious about including it with Windows. However, before that I would gladly pay Kaspersky and still would if it were in my budget. But of course, just as with Huawei's great phones from China, we get the shaft here in the US as far as choosing from the 'free' market.
I think Kasp is a good actor, they do lots of gray hat stuff, I have head plenty of people for decades swear by it. But I think the risk is out of their control ultimatly and yeah banned anyways so who cares, they probally will buckle after this. My be ok to use in friendly countries.
I think so too and it would not be too hard to monitor network traffic to see if it tries to ”call home” as it were. Of course, there could be known weaknesses that would make it possible for russian actors to create malware that it would not detect. They should move everything out of russia.
There are ways to get around the ban if you really want to. However I think the US government should pay for atleast a one year subscription for all us citizens for a AV on their choice.
Another question to consider is: If I uninstall Kaspersky software, will it leave some hidden component behind? How can I tell?
Good question. You can't PROVE they did not, so it really depends on your level of concern. The only way to make certain is a completely clean install of Windows, which seems like a lot.
If you do it quickly, you can tell by following the news. Kaspersky must be getting lots of scrutiny now. If they are doing something like that, it will be noticed. You can also install another antivirus product and hope that it catches the threat. This component must be doing something like changing system files, leaving files behind, running as a process, a service or a driver. It also must call home from time to time, which can be detected with a sniffer software. There are security labs around the world, which are doing research on this type of behavior.
Have Kaspersky password manager . Which password manager would be good to transition to for multiple devices?
I Use 1Password. Bitdefender is another popular choice. There are several.
I live in Germany... and there are a lot of Alternatives... so I use a other Antivirus... the risk of spying or manipulation is too much.
What about Microsoft products like Windows 11? ;)
@@Paranorama I trust Microsoft more than Putin.
@@ralfrosenberger666 strange comparison: Microsoft is a private company, based in the U.S. Putin is a head of state for a country. They both do have completely different levels of goals.
a more accurate comparison would either be: Microsoft vs. Kaspersky or Biden vs. Putin
i would not trust countrys like germany.
remember all the hacking that went on in the WWs
Why would Russia spy on you? Who cares what games you play :)
Guilty until proven innocent.
One of the best, if not the best anti virus, people all copy each other, do your own research and you will see and discover why they actually want to get Kaspersky off the market.
It seems, unless I'm mistaken, that one could happily use a VPN server in a European country, or anywhere outside the USA, unless your VPN is USA based, to update your antivirus remotely...of course, if your VPN is USA based, or PRC-based, you could assume that your actions are capable of being monitored... Many European countries have much stronger data protection laws, that provide a bit more security than USA options.
@@lohikarhu734 my country under sanctions when I try to download latest Windows ISO using Rufus it halts but once I turn on VPN I get the link then turn off the VPN & download at full Internet speed. So hence the Kaspersky database should be available via VPN. It's nice to see how politics try to regulate Internet without knowing nothing about it. I still have legitimate Keys for my Windows & Office although officially not sold here.
I never used Kaspersky's software. Is there some benefit that it has over using Defender, that comes with every Windows installation?
Defender is adequate. Actually it has become a very decent protection over the last few years.
Kaspersky's AV is probably the most effective AV system on the market. Bitdefender is pretty close to Kaspersky, but isn't as light on your system.
The differences between Kaspersky's AV and Windows Defender? Even the free version of Kaspersky's product is better than most competitors' paid versions, and certainly better than Defender but, if you're careful while you're online, Windows Defender isn't a bad product and adequate for most users.
The UI for Kaspersky is much better than Defender, and Kaspersky is updated (typically) 10-15 times daily with new data to combat the latest viruses and other threats. Defender is not.
Windows Defender still performs very badly against even some of the most well-known/common forms of malware and ransomware (the latter in particular), whereas, even Kaspersky's free version will likely stop ransomware encrypting all your data.
I don't know the technical details, but I imagine it's like the difference between buying condoms at a normal store and buying them from the dollar store. Dollar store condoms are probably fine, but probably fine isn't good enough for some people. Maybe this is naïve, but I've been long of the opinion that paid security software is always going to be of a higher quality than free software. That goes for Kaspersky as well as the other major softwares. Windows Defender is probably fine. Are you ok with fine, or do you want something you know is going to be good?
@@ScooterinAB Defender is not the dollar store choice. It might have been, when it was first introduced. But it is now a mature, highly supported tool that Microsoft takes seriously.
We do not hear reviews and news reports on the failures of Defender, or the ineptness of Defender. And Defender is the default anti-virus, anti-malware, software firewall that is used by over a billion computers. Surely there would be countless reports of issue, if Defender was a dollar store tool -- but there are not countless reports. And we are talking about it running on over a billion computers.
If you read enough of the 3rd party anti-virus vendor's agreements, and their links to other legal jargon, and privacy lingo, etc, you will eventually come across language that you are granting their software 100% unfettered access to 100% of the files on your computer, including anything in memory, and that you are granting them permission to do anything, whatsoever, that they want to do with your data.
They do not use such blunt language, but that is what their agreement boils down to.
Microsoft is a huge spyware company. So they are doing whatever they want to do with your data. But it is not Defender that is collecting your information.
So if you now install a 3rd party anti-virus program on your computer, you just invited another spyware company to rummage through all of your data. And the likelihood is that they are not as capable as Microsoft's team, especially since Microsoft's team has access to all of the other Microsoft teams, should they need to obtain information about some obscure program included with Windows that is being attacked by malicious code.
No one knows Microsoft's code better than the Microsoft personnel that created the code. So their own Defender code, and the personnel that maintain Defender, have immediate access to any of Microsoft's other teams.
If the 3rd party software was appreciably better than Defender, I could see justification for using their software. But I believe that 3rd party anti-virus software is, at best, equal to Defender's protection, but probably less than equal. Combine that with giving a 3rd party full access to 100% of your data, and paying for it, too, and that is why I asked my question (in my opening comment), because I would not use 3rd party anti-virus software (I used to -- but no more).
Kaspersky does offer different plans that include additional features (like a VPN service (which I would not trust) and a password manager (which I would not trust), etc). So those add-ons to your annual paid plan might be desirable for some folks. However, not for me.
personally i'm back to Avast since they banned Kaspersky [which is what i wanted to switch to from my old one[not Avast fyi] yes it's a bit of a resource hog if you're doing everything else at the same time but you'll be ok if you don't have loads of stuff running while doing everything else at the same time as your scan
Leo Political on this but I think what happens with Kaspersky will depend on who wins the Election. If Biden wins the Ban stays in place. If Trump Wins I suspect it will be ended.
If Trump wins, the ban will end after he has got a very generous donation from Kaspersky. All perfectly legal, of course.
Just a coincidence, Biden becomes President, Russia invades Ukraine, Joe said he'd allow a small invasion.
Right, because the guilty man is Putin's best friend. Don't forget how he praised him immediately after his brutal attack in Ukraine. If trump wins, the United States is going to be heavily influenced by Putin's interests for years. This is yet another reason why every patriotic American should vote for President Biden, to make sure Putin's biggest wishes aren't fulfilled with the help of his guilty friend.
3:32 They don’t hide the fact their HQ is on Moscow if you check their RUclips channel. They even make a very nice tour of their Moscow HQ
The answer should be yes if you are just a private person, Windows defender is still all you need if you just brows the web and use the always the same programs. Attacks tend to target companies, so as a private individual you are often not the target and therefor Windows defender is all you need.
It's a myth the attacks target mostly companies. Anyone can be a target. Just individuals don't make the headlines like when an organisation has a massive data leak.
@@D.von.N It's not a "myth", it's logic. Attacks on Companys are more then on private individuals, because Companys have more attack vectors (like unpached servers or public mail addresses that you can sent spam to) and a higher reward for getting data (like the data of customers, company secrets that getting sold or a ransom than they can get), in opposition for private individuals you just have some few attack vectors (most of the time one mail and one or maybe two devices) and your data is not really something worth for them (they can't really sell your data for much). Private users therefor most of the time just end up in a botnet.
@@Jan12700 Being in a botnet is enough to take part in taking down organisations, like with a DDOS attack. I wouldn't downplay the significance of being 'just in a botnet'.
ExxonMobil was using Norton a few years ago!😲😲
That's really not true. The odds of you specifically being targeted are quite low, unless there is a reason to target you. But how many phishing emails and scam calls do you get per day? While a large company is going to have a good payout, individuals are still the targets of attacks and compromises. Learn literally anything about internet security or fraud and you're going to quickly realize what the real world looks like.
i uninstalled it cause it was blocking access to my games and everything i enjoyed
you might have added some individual exeptions instead (or investigate, WHY it blocked your games).
@@ruedigerschultz3852 i tried to investigate and got nothing
Bcs they are from pirate sites with cracks and mods. I think he plays old games.
@@woofkaf7724 spotify and overwatch?
If you haven’t read it, see Ken Thompson’s paper, “Reflections on Trusting Trust.”
Apple says their products are secure. Maybe they are.
Kaspersky used to come with new PCs/laptops you bought at the store. Now the United States is banning it. I've not heard of any spying either
Move to McAfee or Bitdefender
AV is a waste of money anyway. There is no reason to buy it anymore. Defender does an equally good job.
If I had it I would uninstall it and use something else, I feel for organizations that have a lot of copies of it and had just renewed.
Ha! 😂 Kaspersky himself (owner, real person) has graduated from high school of KGB/FSB.
So? Plenty of people graduate from shitty places. Correlation is not causation.
Correlation is not causation, but it is worthy of caution and, if possible, investigation.
@@ScooterinAB The expression “There is no such thing as a former KGB officer” implies that once someone has served in the KGB (the Soviet Union’s main security agency), they remain associated with it in some capacity for the rest of their lives. This notion suggests that the skills, connections, and possibly the loyalty to the KGB’s principles and network do not dissipate with the end of active service. It conveys the idea that the influence and reach of the KGB, or its successor organizations, persist through its former officers indefinitely.
@@MagentaSkittles And how is that different from groups like the CIA, FBI, or the seemingly hundreds of US government agencies that are actively spying on Americans? The Cold War ended in 1991. Let's drop this anti-Soviet propaganda shit and start living in the real world.
I used the offline version years ago to get rid of a virus! Downloaded it to a bootable CD!😲😲
The government should issue the same ban for Windows 11.
I have not had any problems with free Avast. I used it for years. Kaspersky is soon to never get updates anymore so get another AV software.
Kaspersky is still the best AntiVirus imo. I'll still continue to use them
nop
I was just informed today that I won't be able to renew my Kaspersky anti virus subscription to do whatever political nonsense. I'm guessing my Kaspersky password manager won't work anymore either? Does anyone know one way or the other?
Three points:
1) I don't like what Russia is doing in the Ukraine, and therefore I dislike any Russian company. But:
2) Pragmatically, I'm just not important enough for Putin to care about my youtube preferences (for example), but of course that would be different if I were a US Congressman (say).
3) I'm in the UK and I believe our Government could order a British company to hand over info about my online activities and the company would not be permitted to warn me. I'm quite certain Russia would have a a corrsesponding law.
Taking the fact RuSSia bombs schools and hospitals, you would be just as interesting target as anyone else. If not for using your data then using you like a bot without you noticing, potentially serving in a DDOS attack of your hospital's system. You have no idea.
Зато наверное нравиться то что своя страна делает. Хотя делает то же самое.
I used it for a decade because it was great, as soon as Russia invaded Ukraine it was gone instantly, my consumer firewall was replaced with pfsense, I increased security with MFA anywhere I could, I replaced all my password, most to 20-25 character ones, and even now I'm moving IoT devices to a separate VLAN, paranoia swept over me. Kaspersky was a great product, password manager was a bit meh, but ok. All my passwords are in a separate password manager, none are stored in the browser.
I removed kaspersky from my computer I completely wipe my drive reinstall windows didn’t want to take any chances I’m using eset now very good antivirus.
It's best to skipinsky to something else.
Thanks Leo
Don't Microsoft do Antivirus?
Built in to Windows 10 and 11. That's what I recommend in the video.
Yes and do a free Malwarebytes scan every few weeks!😍
My favorite Antivirus from 2007 to 2012
Leo,
I have looked on various forums and Googled, but I can't solve my situation. I am an above average Windows user as pertains to technical knowledge, but I am stuck!!!
My problem: My Lenovo laptop with Win 11 23H2 will no longer show me a boot menu. I can boot to the UEFI by pressing the appropriate keys during startup and change any settings that I desire, but I am unable IN ANY WAY to get to a boot menu (safe mode, safe mode with networking, ... etc. ). I played with msconfig to no avail.
What caused this, and how can I fix this???
Thank You
Load your backup.
@@glasslinger As this is "most likely" a UEFI issue, I will not take the time and trouble to reinstall Windows until I am fairly sure that it would fix the problem because a new install of Windows does not change UEFI function to the best of my knowledge.
@@ningayeti have you tried flashing the uefi? I updated mine last month.
@@ningayeti The UEFI is supplied with the computer. (CD usually) When you install windows it is placed on the hard drive with the rest of windows. When you make a CLONE drive for your system (best backup method!) you simply unplug your C drive, plug in the clone and you are back up running. Then you erase the non-working drive, then make a clone again using the drive as the destination. Simple!
Seem I remember something about shuting down abnormal 3 times to get to menu to get to safe mode? Search for Safe mode Windows 11!
Thanks
having worked in the government and served...this is a first for the U.S. Government to recommend not using a anti-virus software.I choose to believe this warning due to the fact that since that this is a first for the U.S. to do this and also that i know that russia would force kersperky to send all data usage to them and the company would have no choice but to.I for one am glad that the U.S.government is at least warning users to take this action.Wonder how people would feel if they were sending U.S. data usage to russia and our government not warn us? I uninstalled all products by this company last week on all by systems and i am using bitdefender now.
" I for one am glad that the U.S.government is at least warning users to take this action." They are not warning you, they are banning it.
Both the people working for that company and the product used to be good, at least as good as the people and products from other AV companies.
But even if they are the best people of their country as long as they remain in a dictatorial country no one can trust them with security matters because they can be blackmailed into doing whatever the evil leader wants.
And America is the greatest, most free, and most transparent company in the world, huh? Every single thing people say about Russia needs to be said about the US as well. Quit drinking the kool-aid.
How can you NOT call the US a dictatorial country when they have stopped you using Kaspersky? Doesn't make sense to me.
@@davidhirst7227 If it is a risk to national security, which it is, and if you are from the US then I'm sorry but I will consider you a traitor before considering the US dictatorial country.
I'm from the EU and I no longer want anything that came from Russia, even if it was imported before 2014, I have power tools from European brands that were made in Russia and I prefer to throw them away than using spare parts made in Russia before, now or in the future even if Putin gets replaced.
I've sent large amounts of money to a lot of Ukrainians many times to pay eBay purchases, I had to trust them because there was no way to get my money back if they were scammers and I always received some gift along the things I purchased.
On the other hand I tried to do business with Russians and 5 out of 6 times I was scammed, the sixth time I learned not to trust another Russian for the rest of my life. I hope that even if they all die of hunger and thirst, the UN does not have to allocate a single cent of my taxes to help them.
They have the political system they chose and the one they like because it facilitates corruption, they have been raised to steal from each other and therefore cannot avoid stealing from foreigners.
The only other time I was scammed on eBay was a Chinese seller, but since I have bought several thousand times from the Chinese without problems I can ignore a single case among thousands.
In Russia, as I said, I made 6 purchases and only the first one was not a scam, I have bought something in practically every "civilized" country in the world, in thousands of orders I only had problems with 0.01% of the Chinese and 83.3% of the Russians I did business with.
Not a single problem with any country from Europe or America, not even a problem with people from poor African countries and then 83.3% of the Russians were scammers... that tells me everything I need to know about that country.
Has the US government shown why or how Kaspersky has turned nasty, i want to see exactly what Kaspersky has actually done to cause suspicion.
They haven't done anything, it's just a suspicion that the Russian government may pressure them to do something at some point.
Better safe than sorry. We'll see if any other countries follow suit and why. It's never been the go-to for the majority of PC users.
It has been either number one or in the top three of anti-virus packages for many many years. It is a superior product.
Tries to make informative video.
Says every other sentence: "I don't know".
You'd rather I lie? The fact that we don't know is important information people need to understand, and the fact that this is happening at all is important.
@@askleonotenboom No, you don't have to lie, and I appreciate your honesty. It's just that I'd never make a video about a subject I'd have to admit I know nothing about.
I do appreciate your other videos though. Have a nice day!
“I don’t know” is a good answer. After all, the US government has made a decision against Kaspersky and there are no visible evidence that Kaspersky is doing what the government says it’s doing, and the government has decided not to use Kaspersky’s transparency centers to check its software and procedures, and they are ignoring many certifications like the SOC 2 audit
Play it safe. Dont use Kaspersky.
Play it safer. Don't use Windows.
@@repairman2be250 Never happen.
Play it safe. Dont use Kaspersky, Bitdefender, ESET, AVAST, Norton, McAfee, Windows, Facebook, Instagram, Google, Apple, RUclips, Tik Tok and many others... 🤣
Switched to BitDefender when The Vlad 🇷🇺🧛🏻♂ invaded, haven't missed Kaspersky 🤷🏻♂
Kaspersky slowed down my laptop. What a relief to get rid of it. Windows do a good job. Btw what's your thoughts on Windows and spying?
It was a good move. Glad I never used it
lol
Install it immediately since it's the best 👍
Nothing good comes from Russia
As usual is just US government paranoia.
I think this is done to hurt money wise a corporation Kaspersky that have been in this business protecting PC's World wide since 1997 that's 27 years!
Paranoia is an essential part of security in any field. That’s just common sense.
Or a government practicing due caution.
@@iceManSwag Good point.
Should I stop using microsoft products like Windows 11 to avoid US to spy on me?
;)
There are some who are adamant you should. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The fact that it's software from Russian is enough for me.
🤣🤣🤣
At a minimum, all they would need to do is just not see official Russian government malware.
really? the government can intervene in my computer and prevent kaspersky's updates?
They have a list of everyone who uses it inside the US. 😮
@@johnathanpearson3203 but would they really intervene with the workings of individual computers like that?
@@johnathanpearson3203 🤣🤣🤣 VERY FUNNY, they can block their servers!!😲😲
Do Nothing.
@@waynea4651 Use a VPN. 😁
@@waynea4651 Use a VPN.
That' make fun knowing true well one of Taiwan laptops honestly lost Serial Number ID just by knowing Taiwan as smart to be eaten for needs of lieness. Kaspersky is war maker peace eating virus greeter not like any other malware founding software I was used known as working US made for example, can we explain version of Kaspersky was destroyed my computer performance close to 100% on two computers like I was played GTAV my framerate was 30 FPS using Kaspersky even uninstalled we see only 9FPS can someone explain fact that there is no performance back given after uninstalling it, without I was get dozens of virus using they so far believable Russian as well made Software that not functions it is like Bill Gates was liquid HTTP making to use only HTTPS but what was result was more and more Dark Web pages come to Internet as even in protected world to anyone who use Internet we see even Kaspersky is not foundable as hacker bringer never seen before so hard hacks ever possible without they lie interactions knowing your family, they frirnds, possible value checked to Russia and same other things.
Hi bought. Maybe generate a better username and learn to use English grammar.