Spyhunter 5 vs kaspersky software#
government, for a defense contractor or for a company involved in running or maintaining critical infrastructure.īut for everyone else, Kaspersky antivirus software can't be beat. In the face of this new information, our own position remains the same: Don't run Kaspersky antivirus software if you or your close family members work for the U.S. "If we were ever to do so just once, it would immediately be spotted by the industry and it would be the end of our business - and rightly so." "We never betray the trust that our users place in our hands," he wrote.
In his blog post last night, Eugene Kaspersky said that doing so would make his job impossible. "But if it's just signatures on NSA implants and NSA exploits, then this is Kaspersky just doing its job, and not at all a Kaspersky-Russia thing."īoth Kaspersky the man and Kaspersky Lab the company have consistently denied any active collusion with the Russian government. Was it bc he's an NSA employee? Looking at docs? If so, Kaspersky is toast," tweeted Matt Tait, a British cybersecurity expert and former staffer at GCHQ, the U.K.'s equivalent of the NSA. "The key question is what triggered the Kaspersky APT investigation. It's possible that the company was compromised by the Russian government without its knowledge - or that Kaspersky Lab knew the Russian security services were listening in, but couldn't do anything about it.
Left unanswered in the Journal's story, and in a companion story in the Washington Post, was the question of whether Kaspersky Lab itself actively told the Russian government about the NSA files on the contractor's machines.