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Also according to the US government; weapons of mass destruction are to be found near oil laden countries.

Oh wait.

But seriously, I always had an inkling of unsureness about using Kaspersky. Could never really place my finger on why.

Dodged a bullet I guess?

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You mean the chemical weapons confirmed by both the NYT and the international Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons?

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/world/middleeast/question...

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/23/world/middleeast/thousand...

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/world/cia-is-said-to-have...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/03/world/middlee...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middlee...

GP presumably meant the weapons of mass destruction Donald Rumsfeld claimed Saddam Hussein was developing in "seeking the means to strike the United States and our friends and allies",[0] not unusable pre-1991 weapons that were rusting or buried in the desert.

[0] https://www.americanprogress.org/article/in-their-own-words-...

This, thanks.

If you're a worthy target for Russia, I wouldn't trust it. Otherwise - who cares.

Yeah, it's all about your threat model. If I was a whistleblower against the US government, Kaspersky would be at the top of my list of "most trustworthy antivirus software". But if you're developing missile defense systems for the US, not so much.

Who do you fear most, and who is able to protect you from those people? Sadly there are preciously few neutral parties who'd protect you from everyone, so you have to choose your poison.

Yup. You get it.

This is why I tend to not use an Antivirus at all. Kinda stupid, sorta... but you can't have a man in the middle attack occur of any sort; if you don't have any men in the middle...

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