Yesterday I decided to uninstall Kaspersky

[JB007]

Hello,
Due to the war in Ukraine I decided to uninstall Kaspersky.
This is my small participation in the international sanctions against Russia.

 

[harlan4096]

Did You (or Would You?) uninstall all the software from the USA when They started the war against Irak with lies (massive destruction weapons and so on...)? And many other meaningless war interventions? I'm not going to uninstall any software on my systems for political reasons

Taken from K. Community:

 

[eonline]

I think everything has been said and this forum is not for discussing politics.

 

[Anthony Qian]

For your information, I'm sharing my findings on antivirus detections on HermeticWiper, which is aimed at computers in Ukraine.

Kaspersky is among the first batch of AVs (including ESET, McAfee, Microsoft, Symantec) detecting this malware (the detection ratio as per VT was less than 20% at that time).

Dr Web, on the contrary, added the detection almost 24 hours after the malware was discovered in the wild. I don't know why Dr Web takes so long to add the detection, but do I know Dr Web is the AV you should seriously consider uninstalling.

 

[Venustus]

Due to the war in Ukraine I decided to uninstall Kaspersky.

I feel for your sentiments but Kaspersky was not the instigator of war
Regards

 

[jackuars]

Remember, politics is the reason for wars and not individuals/corporations.

 

[robboman]

Better uninstall all software of US origin also then for all the countless wars they started.

 

[SpiderWeb]

Hello,
Due to the war in Ukraine I decided to uninstall Kaspersky.
This is my small participation in the international sanctions against Russia.

It's a good step and a safety measure for you. Kaspersky has turned an army of computers into sleeper cells. Never Kaspersky.

 

[L0ckJaw]

Hello,
Due to the war in Ukraine I decided to uninstall Kaspersky.
This is my small participation in the international sanctions against Russia.

I did the same, not because I don’t like kaspersky but to be solidair to Ukraine.
no matter how you see it, Eugene Kaspersky is personal friend of Poetin.
To ask if I uninstalled US software before , no I did not.

For me F-Secure now and no US or Russian AV anymore,

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

I can understand the sentiment, nobody likes the recent developments, and everybody has (and has the freedom) to decide for themselves what they want to do.

 

[Andrew3000]

Kaspersky ≠ Russia Gov

 

[silversurfer]

As expected a lot of users will leave Kaspersky. I can partially agree with this decision for obvious reason what happens these days. Personally, I won't be moralistic, otherwise I would have to be really consistent even in other cases like never purchase any technical stuff what's made in China (human-rights...). Of course, most people will say it's a huge difference in such cases of WAR. But it's still my humble opinion. No offense, I respect every different point of view.

 

[Shadowra]

Hello,

I can understand your reasoning about the war in Ukraine, but MT is not meant to talk about politics.

Then, as the members above said, Kaspersky has nothing to do with the Russian government...
It reminds me of the unfounded accusations that the Americans made on Kaspersky Labs, just because someone from the NSA was using the Russian antivirus.

Besides, why target Kaspersky, and not the American Antivirus like Norton, McAfee or others?

 

[micasayyo]

I'm considering removing it from my computer kaspersky=russia

 

[Sorrento]

The situation has really saddened me, to a greater extent than before maybe because I have children and several grandchildren - Albert could not have put it better in a well known quote: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” I don't see how corporations are responsible for the actions of one man, as always I do my best to remain neutral.

 

[Moonhorse]

I respect your decision , adguard is aswell from russia, but i dont see myself ditching it unless i run linux all day, maybe i might now

But i just blame the goverment not the innocent companies or people

As my fav hockey team from khl is also ditching khl i understand anything related to ditching russian software feels right decision, its not about how small or how big the thing around is you may disable everything related to it

 

[JasonUK]

If sanctions are cranked up to block all trade with Russia / Russian companies then Kaspersky won't be an option anyway.

@Moonhorse ~ Adguard is incorporated/headquartered in Cyprus now as far as I'm aware.

 

[SpiderWeb]

Isn't this a forum about security? If you think downloading "security" software with closed sourced code from an authoritarian country with zero transparency is a wise move, man I got a bridge to sell to you.

 

[harlan4096]

Kaspersky code was already audited, probably the only AV firm that offered their code to be audited in 2017, so before telling things without sense, perform some research

 

[Aleeyen]

Most of the countries that are now talking against the war always easily forget their own doings in the colonial times.
Most of the present day rich countries became rich exploiting the countries of Asia, Africa and the South America.
I don't like to talk about these things because things will start to look very ugly if we go deep.
So, go on with your work as usual and be happy.