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YLAP:
I thought it might be interesting  :)

LINK

Eddy:
Typically for those stupid Americans.
We are good, they are bad.
When are they gonna stop this childish behavior...

All major av vendors are working together with governments.
There is nothing wrong with it.
Look at how much customers you will get if you can sell your product to a government.

polonus:
Was not this because of some specific detections by Kaspersky Lab's Global Research and Analysis Team, like with stuxnet etc.?
Kaspersky recently flagged CIA backdoors worked through a Microsoft hole known as “PsSetLoadImageNotifyRoutin”, an unpatched "feature" that  prevents antivirus software from finding computer virus malware....Essentially, malware can use the above API to trick the OS into giving malware scanners other files – such as benign executables – to inspect rather than their own malicious code. This would allow software nasties to evade antivirus packages. (Source info: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/08/microsoft_says_it_wont_fix_kernel_flaw_its_not_a_security_issue_apparently/ )

This is not a reputation thing. Could it also be politically driven, because of the present demonization of Russia????

polonus

polonus:
Remember this also was irritating to those parties that (il)legaly try to audiospy on you (again CIA etc.), and normally in Microsoft you could not turn this off (eavesdropping through even taped off microphones), and Microsoft did not offer such a solution as Kaspersky's did: https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/microphone-patent/17376/

Again the red herring here was to accuse Kaspersky to work hand in foot with the Russian homebase and declare the software a threat to USA.

polonus

YLAP:
The story continues: Kaspersky software banned at U.S. federal agencies amid concerns of Kremlin ties

https://www.androidcentral.com/kaspersky-software-banned-us-federal-agencies-amid-concerns-kremlin-ties

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