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Starting Thursday, Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky deleted its anti-malware software from customers' computers across the United States and automatically replaced it with UltraAV's antivirus solution.

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[โ€“] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Great way to prove the US right that your software is untrustworthy... could've just shut up and complied instead of installing crap with no notice on people's systems.

[โ€“] takeda@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

Notice that UltraAV belongs to UltraVPN, company that looks like it's under Chinese control (despite ban on VPNs they are suspiciously allowed to operate there)

UltraAV is basically non-existent outside of this news, so it likely is Kaspersky in new skin too bypass federal regulation.