Kaspersky Anti-Virus FREE Edition

gatorcq wrote:
After the news report on this company, I think I will pass on it.

There's a bit of a history here. Last year, Microsoft intentionally began hijacking Kaspersky AV products. Eugene Kaspersky called them out on it, and they have since "corrected" their mistake. All these company's compete, and you would think that Microsoft wouldn't care since it's free with the OS, but they do. So Microsoft launched a slander campaign that reached Congress, and hence the bad PR. Eugene Kaspersky offered to testify in person to Congress for as long as they want regarding his software and business. It's a point of fact that Kaspersky and Bitdefender have long held the top spots for best antivirus, with most top nerds agreeing that Kaspersky is the best, but also the most expensive. Kaspersky is based in Russia, so that makes people nervous, but the fact it's based in Russia is the source of it's strength. They are on the leading edge of whats happening in cybercrime. As we all know now, Russian hackers are the best, always have been, and that's why Kaspersky nails it first. A word about AV Comparitives. They say they are independent. They are not. They are paid by the vendors, and who do you think pays the most? Microsoft. When you see Microsoft ranked at the top, don't believe it. Their better than they use to be, but they still lag behind. The best thing to do is read many many un-sponsored antivirus reviews. Tha'ts the best way to distill the truth.

There's also a browser that originated in Russia, Yandex. I've tried it out of curiosity and it seemed pretty nice. But I'm now back to Edge and Chrome, which are perfectly satisfactory.

Who knows the truth but it does raise red flags. Here's an article that has more detail. One would have to be pretty naive not to wonder and follow through to insure such software was safe.

gatorcq wrote:
After the news report on this company, I think I will pass on it.

You make a mention of a news report and then do not post a link to said report so others can go read the report.

I've read recent reports in regard to Kaspersky and none of the reports gave me any reason to be concerned.

Here is one report I've read.

After the news report on this company, I think I will pass on it.

I would throw the computer in the trash before I paid any of these criminals. I keep things backed up but not daily so I lost a couple of minor things but really could care less. Everything important is backed up in house. Not in a cloud, not online anywhere. I guess I should just do it a bit more often. No worries! If I lose a couple of cute cat pictures I can just take more!

Good going, Bill Satellite. If nobody paid those creeps, they'd be forced to move on to something else.:C

I got smacked with the ransom ware stuff yesterday and shut the computer down. I loaded Malwaresbyte and Kaspersky and it still lived there on the Firefox browser. I am now back and running after doing a full reinstall but at least I didn't have to pay anyone any ransom! This virus is getting worse as I simply mis-typed an address and got screwed. I am never going to enter an address directly as it's too easy to make the same mistake that I did. Now, I will ever the address in the search bar and let it pull us the list of addresses associated with that entry. Had I done that yesterday, I would not have wasted about 1/2 day putting everything back together again.

Irover wrote:
I have used MalwareBytes Free and WD with no problems on MS Windows! .

Same here.

I have used MalwareBytes Free and WD with no problems on MS Windows! I use MalwareBytes and Avast free versions on my 2009 MacBook Air, no problems.