Kaspersky & others: Why do they do this?
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Remember, that Kaspersky is a Russian company, and they/their owner have proven ties to FSB (Russian ex-KGB; I am too lazy to google it, but there was a story about it a few months ago). So, go ahead with Kaspersky, if you don't mind leaking your data to Kremlin (and potentially being a bot if full scale was starts). Otherwise, I would recommend e.g. Bitdefender (switched to it about 5 years ago, from Kaspersky, and all is really great!). The pricing is funny as well (ALL antivirus companies do it like that), so do your homework - 5 minutes googling will save you a hundred bucks easily, if you need it for e.g. five devices at home.
You end up leaking your information to someone, be it NSA, FSB or UK Intelligence.. so doesn't matter what you buy some government somewhere knows what your googling for :laugh:
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I certainly had. I was running Kaspersky 2014 before. After upgrading to 2016 they installed a sneaky proxy server and every web page got then scanned and modified by their proxy (in addition to taking like 5 seconds to load every page instead of a few milliseconds). You can't really deactivate this feature. I uninstalled.
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raddevus wrote:
Honestly? Have you had problems with their software?
Absolutely. So many problems that our company finally removed it. Outlook wouldn't work. Visual Studio had problems. It slowed the system down to a crawl.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Actually, our government invented FaceBook so that we didn't have to spy anymore. :-\
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Remember, that Kaspersky is a Russian company, and they/their owner have proven ties to FSB (Russian ex-KGB; I am too lazy to google it, but there was a story about it a few months ago). So, go ahead with Kaspersky, if you don't mind leaking your data to Kremlin (and potentially being a bot if full scale was starts). Otherwise, I would recommend e.g. Bitdefender (switched to it about 5 years ago, from Kaspersky, and all is really great!). The pricing is funny as well (ALL antivirus companies do it like that), so do your homework - 5 minutes googling will save you a hundred bucks easily, if you need it for e.g. five devices at home.
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Unless they have fixed it, there is a slight compatibility issue with Win10 and the start menu. I have it on a new laptop. Anytime I need to make changes to the start menu I have to turn off Kaspersky AV.
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Unless they have fixed it, there is a slight compatibility issue with Win10 and the start menu. I have it on a new laptop. Anytime I need to make changes to the start menu I have to turn off Kaspersky AV.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Well you Pindos certainly have trust issues. Is that why you spy on most of the world, including your allies and your own people? :)
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I don't know what a Pindo is. Could you enlighten me so I'll know whether to be offended or not?
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It's what I use for the past year for my personal devices. It was ranked as the #1 virus catcher a few years ago.
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I don't know what a Pindo is. Could you enlighten me so I'll know whether to be offended or not?
Russian slang for Americans - something like Ruskies are for Russians in English. Both can be taken as offensive, or not.
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Russian slang for Americans - something like Ruskies are for Russians in English. Both can be taken as offensive, or not.
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Thanks, I learned a new word and I'll elect to not be offended.
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Kaspersky IS a virus. Don't trust those Ruskies! :mad:
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
And there are 0000 00010 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 people who don't understand little-endian binary.
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I don't know what a Pindo is. Could you enlighten me so I'll know whether to be offended or not?
I guess you also don't know what a web search is.
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I'm doing what I can. I'll change the world, starting with the man in the mirror. :laugh:
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I guess you also don't know what a web search is.
Actually, I was trying to call attention to the act of name calling. Your post seems to be another slam for no particular reason. Dis it make you feel better? FYI: pindo is defined in the Urban Dictionary.
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Actually, I was trying to call attention to the act of name calling. Your post seems to be another slam for no particular reason. Dis it make you feel better? FYI: pindo is defined in the Urban Dictionary.
"I was trying to call attention to the act of name calling" Then you don't know how to do it ... especially when you later write "I'll elect to not be offended" in response to "Both can be taken as offensive, or not" -- if it's not taken offensively, then it's not name calling, any more than "Yank" is name calling. And you completely missed the point of the post using the word "Pindos"; it was a response to a slam against "Ruskies", so it called attention to name calling, and your take on this just looks hypocritical. "Your post seems to be another slam for no particular reason." No, my post had a very clear point, which is that there's no excuse for not knowing things that can be readily looked up. "FYI: pindo is defined in the Urban Dictionary." Of course I know that. If you have some point in mentioning it, you have failed to communicate it, just as with your previous comment.
