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crimethink
2nd July 2017, 09:44 PM
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/340420-kaspersky-willing-to-turn-over-source-code-to-us-government

https://gizmodo.com/in-worrisome-move-kaspersky-agrees-to-turn-over-source-1796587120
Ares
2nd July 2017, 10:14 PM
That's not uncommon in the software industry actually. I have access to product source code for the company I work for. I also know that if a government request access to view the source code I take it up the chain of command and the department heads and product group get the legal paperwork completed and will share it.
crimethink
2nd July 2017, 10:52 PM
That's not uncommon in the software industry actually. I have access to product source code for the company I work for. I also know that if a government request access to view the source code I take it up the chain of command and the department heads and product group get the legal paperwork completed and will share it.

Giving the source code to the world's foremost creator of truly dangerous malware will mean the Kaspersky product is compromised, possibly irredeemably (save for a complete rewrite).

If Yevgeny goes through with this, I will look for another anti-virus. I hope he's bluffing, knowing the US Federal regime isn't interested in actually using Kaspersky.
Joshua01
3rd July 2017, 06:35 AM
I never used this crap. AVG and Avast are free. Paying for AV software is like paying for online porn. Why in hell would you?
crimethink
3rd July 2017, 09:26 AM
I never used this crap. AVG and Avast are free. Paying for AV software is like paying for online porn. Why in hell would you?

I paid 49 cents...a Forever stamp.

Kaspersky is regularly free after rebate. Most people are incompetent, and fail to submit properly, so it's a great way to drive sales.

Avast! is good for what it is, but the ads get tiresome. Kaspersky is still better, with no ads.
Joshua01
3rd July 2017, 09:29 AM
I don't have any ads using Avast on mm Macs? AVG doesn't have any ads either for their free AV version. What are you talking about?
I paid 49 cents...a Forever stamp.

Kaspersky is regularly free after rebate. Most people are incompetent, and fail to submit properly, so it's a great way to drive sales.

Avast! is good for what it is, but the ads get tiresome. Kaspersky is still better, with no ads.
Ares
3rd July 2017, 10:37 AM
I don't have any ads using Avast on mm Macs? AVG doesn't have any ads either for their free AV version. What are you talking about?

There was a time that AVG as well as Avast popped up advertisements for their own products. I used to use Avast for a while, but haven't used any Anti-Virus in a long time on my own personal machine. I use restrictive rights access rights (meaning nothing can be installed without administrative access). I run everything in user mode. If there is software I question or want to install and not sure of the source I load it into my VM running Process monitor to see what it attempts to access when executed. If it infects the VM, I blow it away and restore from snapshot.
vacuum
3rd July 2017, 02:07 PM
Use linux to browse the web.

Just set it up as a virtual machine inside virtualbox.
crimethink
3rd July 2017, 02:54 PM
I don't have any ads using Avast on mm Macs? AVG doesn't have any ads either for their free AV version. What are you talking about?

Before I stopped using Avast!, pop-ups for their "upgrade," for their VPN, and other services were persistent, as well as links that appeared to work but didn't until you paid riddled the control panels.
Joshua01
3rd July 2017, 07:48 PM
I believe you but I don't have any, zero, none!
Before I stopped using Avast!, pop-ups for their "upgrade," for their VPN, and other services were persistent, as well as links that appeared to work but didn't until you paid riddled the control panels.