[Wired] Russia’s Top Cyber Sleuth Foils US Spies, Helps Kremlin Pals - Page 2

Eset and AVG. Forever. i had kasperski, and it was by far the lamest anti virus I had ever used. It would frequently lock up when trying to remove threats, and crash the computer every other time I had tried to use it. HORRIBLE. I allowed myself to be convinced by a Best Buy employee that it was good software when I purchased it, because she was hot. Never again!

Interesting read! I may have to research ESET's background a little more.

Avast!

mmmm... this is relevant to my interests

I use kaspersky BTW

I met the guy at New Years two years ago, cool guy.

it's the same with any other AV company. Less Faux News please. I can't talk politics here but yeah, let's say the US isn't so squeaky clean either, far from it.

If you read the article... That's been confirmed. This link was available in the Kaspersky article. I just haven't ascertained whether the US government has officially acknowledged (and disclosed) its level of involvement with Stuxnet.

Anyways, the way I see it Kaspersky Labs is between a rock and a hard place: they can either comply with their country's government, working within the confines of some policies that may be contradictory to their company's founding ideals, or they can decline opportunities to cooperate with the FSB and other government circles, which jeopardizes the company and Kaspersky himself as long as they are headquartered in Russia. The article's author put forth some effort in illustrating Kaspersky's predicament... The situation is further compounded when we consider that Kaspersky's son was kidnapped and retrieved with FSB's help. If Kaspersky was not on his government's whitelist due to previous cooperation, would they still have been so willing to help Kaspersky free his son without him paying the three million dollar ransom with no guarantee of his son's release? That gives Kaspersky all the more incentive to conform to the current government's wishes. Kaspersky blames the Russian social networking site VK for his son's kidnapping--whether or not that may be irrational or disingenuous as the article pointed out--so it's sort of understandable that he has come out against what social networking sites represent as havens for criminals and dissidents. Additionally, Kaspersky Labs is a defense contractor for the Russian government, hardening their systems and training specialists. It's just good business.

Even though his position is understandable, I do agree that his direction and lobbying is somewhat troubling. This is an example of "there's two sides to every story," and good on Wired for capturing the full story.

By “protecting our right to freedom we actually sacrifice it! We sacrifice the right to safe Internet surfing and to not get infected by some nasty piece of malware at every step.”

As old Ben would say, "those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither."

And New Zealand is? Oh ya, humans run that country too so it isn't.

AVG is made by Kaspersky
This is disappointing to me..AVG seems the best out of all the AV