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What information can -kaspersky-steal when installed for - HOME USER?
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<blockquote data-quote="MacDefender" data-source="post: 988600" data-attributes="member: 83059"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://malwaretips.com/threads/kaspersky-and-cloud-privacy.100547/[/URL]</p><p></p><p>I made this thread long before the conflict. But you already agree to having Kaspersky collect a lot of information — processes running, file paths, hashes of binaries your execute, and even the uploading of files to their cloud that they deem “suspicious” and those can be manually examined by an analyst. It also includes your identity like MAC addresses and IP addresses (they use terms like “hash of MAC addresses” to make it sound better but this is nonsense. You can brute force a hash of a MAC address in 1 minute using an old computer)</p><p></p><p>That’s what they already collect. In terms of what they can collect? Anything and everything. AV software hooks into the kernel at a level where they see all memory and all files…. They get constant and silent updates in the background that can cause more things to be flagged suspicious or even just replace their own executables with malicious ones that do anything under SYSTEM privileges.</p><p></p><p>So yeah, ultimately, you have to decide if you trust your vendor or not. All bets are off if you suspect your vendor is malicious.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacDefender, post: 988600, member: 83059"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://malwaretips.com/threads/kaspersky-and-cloud-privacy.100547/[/URL] I made this thread long before the conflict. But you already agree to having Kaspersky collect a lot of information — processes running, file paths, hashes of binaries your execute, and even the uploading of files to their cloud that they deem “suspicious” and those can be manually examined by an analyst. It also includes your identity like MAC addresses and IP addresses (they use terms like “hash of MAC addresses” to make it sound better but this is nonsense. You can brute force a hash of a MAC address in 1 minute using an old computer) That’s what they already collect. In terms of what they can collect? Anything and everything. AV software hooks into the kernel at a level where they see all memory and all files…. They get constant and silent updates in the background that can cause more things to be flagged suspicious or even just replace their own executables with malicious ones that do anything under SYSTEM privileges. So yeah, ultimately, you have to decide if you trust your vendor or not. All bets are off if you suspect your vendor is malicious. [/QUOTE]
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