That's not a source. By that metric every American AV has an NSA backdoor. And, ok, both of these are probably true tbh. But Kaspersky publishes extremely good security research and analysis which is just technical and totally possible to verify independently, so there's no reason to avoid those, even if you don't want to use their software.
I don't use any of that software because it is a proprietary black box
That's a different topic, you're moving the goalposts :P
I was curious whether some scandal about data being sent to russian govt had emerged after the war, but apparently things are as they used to be.
Mind you, AVs have a scary control over your system, and I totally respect not wanting to use one headquartered in Russia (and since the government security agencies have ties within those companies even in the "free world" (lmao) it's safe to assume Russian govt has them inside Kaspersky too).
With that being said, kaspersky is actually a multinational corporation present in many areas of the world, I wonder how much influence Moscow actuallt has over them.
Honestly AVs are kind of snake oil. I wouldn't use any of them.
I agree and I also support the "common sense is the best av" argument, but for less tech savy people and workplaces I do think it's necessary to have a last hope safety net against malware
They are based in Russia
That's not a source. By that metric every American AV has an NSA backdoor. And, ok, both of these are probably true tbh. But Kaspersky publishes extremely good security research and analysis which is just technical and totally possible to verify independently, so there's no reason to avoid those, even if you don't want to use their software.
I don't use any of that software because it is a proprietary black box
That's a different topic, you're moving the goalposts :P
I was curious whether some scandal about data being sent to russian govt had emerged after the war, but apparently things are as they used to be.
Mind you, AVs have a scary control over your system, and I totally respect not wanting to use one headquartered in Russia (and since the government security agencies have ties within those companies even in the "free world" (lmao) it's safe to assume Russian govt has them inside Kaspersky too).
With that being said, kaspersky is actually a multinational corporation present in many areas of the world, I wonder how much influence Moscow actuallt has over them.
Honestly AVs are kind of snake oil. I wouldn't use any of them.
I agree and I also support the "common sense is the best av" argument, but for less tech savy people and workplaces I do think it's necessary to have a last hope safety net against malware