![]() ![]() I should at this point reiterate that I do not have any reason at all to think that Kaspersky has been compromised or would be used to attack Australians and Australian businesses. ![]() One of only two Kaspersky Labs Australian distributors announced just a few days ago that they are ditching the brand and have actively encouraged their resellers to “seek alternative cyber security products”. This was followed a couple of days later by the Italian government going a step further by announcing bans on the software’s continued use. More recently, about two weeks ago the German government urged all businesses and individuals not to use Kaspersky software. Eugene Kaspersky, the founder and CEO is on the record denying any ties with the Russian government and several years ago when a similar accusation was made he said something to the effect of “If I found my company being forced by the Russian government to do it’s bidding I would sooner shut down the business than co-operate.” If you want to learn more just Google “Kaspersky hacking” The fear is that they could be coerced by the Russian government to enable the Kaspersky software to be used as a weapon. As it is, things have changed and we must move on…Īs of right now there is no credible evidence to suggest that the Kaspersky products are in any way technically flawed or vulnerable for use as a cyber attack tool, despite this the threat is still there and the fact remains that Kaspersky is a Russian based business. In 2018 and again in 2020 we exhaustively re-evaluated all of the major antivirus products to answer the question “Which one is the best?” and on both occasions we concluded that Kaspersky was better than all of the others, under normal circumstances we would have been conducting the same evaluation again later this year. ![]() Kaspersky Labs is a Moscow based multinational corporation who have made an excellent reputation for themselves in the global cyber security sector, we began using and recommending their products around 6 years ago because we thought it was the best product on the market to help protect our customer’s equipment. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and after endless hours of contemplation and discussion we have decided to discontinue the use of Kaspersky Select Antivirus across our entire customer base.
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