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Reuters has run a story claiming that Eugene Kaspersky directed developers at Kaspersky Lab to modify shared anti-virus definitions in order make other antivirus programs flag benign system files as malicious.
Beginning more than a decade ago, one of the largest security companies in the world, Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, tried to damage rivals in the marketplace by tricking their antivirus software programs into classifying benign files as malicious, according to two former employees.
The attacks allegedly targeted rivals Microsoft, AVG, and AVAST who Kaspersky felt were stealing.
Some of the attacks were ordered by Kaspersky Lab's co-founder, Eugene Kaspersky, in part to retaliate against smaller rivals that he felt were aping his software instead of developing their own technology, they said. "Eugene considered this stealing," said one of the former employees.
Microsoft, AVG and Avast indicated that they had found attempts to introduce false positives as detailed in a 2013 presentation by Dennis Batchelder from Microsoft.
Kaspersky denies the allegations and tweeted this as the story broke.
I don't usually read @reuters. But when I do, I see false positives. For the record: this story is a complete BS...
Read the full story here: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/14/us-kaspersky-rivals-idUSKCN0QJ1CR20150814
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Sunday August 16 2015, @10:44PM
I don't know about that. I had absolute control over what went on in my computers with 98SE, XP and Vista. Now Win 7 keeps throwing weird stuff at me near every update Tue. I looked at 8 and thought no way. Now it seems as though Win10 (or should I say WinAndroid) is more of same piled higher. Maybe I'll go back to Linux.
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 17 2015, @12:23AM
I had absolute control over [...] 98SE
9x had not the faintest hint of a permissions paradigm.
You were ALWAYS running as root.
Anyone who sat down at that 9x system ALWAYS had root privileges.
Under 9x, anything that your browser encountered ALWAYS had root privileges.
You grossly overestimate what control you as the owner/sysadmin of a 9x box had over that system.
Win 7 keeps throwing weird stuff at me
...and that stuff exists to bolster|extend M$'s business model--not to improve your UX.
If MICROS~1 actually was interested in improving the user experience, they would need to start
over from scratch and begin with a proper permissions paradigm--but that would eliminate their ability to exert their corporate power over their captive audience.
UAC (User Account Control) aka Blame The User While Annoying The User was a feint by MSFT to convince the gullible that they now had an equivalent of sudo.
It was a fraudulent move to attempt to assure M$'s prisoners that they possessed some freedom.
Most users realized that it is a scam and just disabled it.
Maybe I'll go back to Linux.
Every time I open htop [ibm.com] and see **all** of my running processes, I'm reminded of how much MICROS~1 *hides* from you and how Windoze does *not* ship with Process Explorer.
N.B. When it's been more than 100 days since you last restarted the OS, htop adds an exclamation point in the Uptime slot.
I don't ever remember having a Windoze box that didn't require a restart before that.
Running Linux, I'm constantly reminded of how aggravating the M$ way was.
-- gewg_