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<blockquote data-quote="MacDefender" data-source="post: 878479" data-attributes="member: 83059">Haha that&#039;s the thing about speculating about motive -- the truth is something we can never know unless we&#039;re Kaspersky or the NSA.But what&#039;s clear is that Kaspersky&#039;s explanation is plausible -- if you opt into KSN, you are giving Kaspersky consent to upload to KSN anything they deem suspicious. And that doesn&#039;t even have to mean it shows you that it detected anything during a scan. in the NSA case, it was an executable and a high interest strain of malware. So one might otherwise ask &quot;Hey Kaspersky, of the billions of things that get uploaded to KSN, why did you look at that particular one with such scrutiny?&quot;, but I think the fact that it was a high value malware variant at the time is probably a sufficient explanation there.It&#039;s hard to accuse a program of malice when it was literally doing exactly what you agreed to let it do. And we all agree that KSN is one of the most powerful, most effective cloud systems out there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacDefender, post: 878479, member: 83059"] Haha that's the thing about speculating about motive -- the truth is something we can never know unless we're Kaspersky or the NSA. But what's clear is that Kaspersky's explanation is plausible -- if you opt into KSN, you are giving Kaspersky consent to upload to KSN anything they deem suspicious. And that doesn't even have to mean it shows you that it detected anything during a scan. in the NSA case, it was an executable and a high interest strain of malware. So one might otherwise ask "Hey Kaspersky, of the billions of things that get uploaded to KSN, why did you look at that particular one with such scrutiny?", but I think the fact that it was a high value malware variant at the time is probably a sufficient explanation there. It's hard to accuse a program of malice when it was literally doing exactly what you agreed to let it do. And we all agree that KSN is one of the most powerful, most effective cloud systems out there. [/QUOTE]

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