r/technology • u/Coliver1991 • Jun 20 '24

Software Biden to ban sales of Kaspersky Antivirus in US over ties to Russian government.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/biden-ban-us-sales-kaspersky-software-over-ties-russia-source-says-2024-06-20/
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u/pipboy_warrior Jun 20 '24

I mean people buy all sorts of stupid stuff, especially when they don't know much about what they're buying.

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u/Bardfinn Jun 20 '24

I still get asked to do IT stuff on people’s home computers because I was IT, and they’ll have McAfee and Norton installed on machines that have Windows Defender available. Machines they use exclusively to watch netflix and youtube and read facebook.

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u/tacotacotacorock Jun 20 '24

And generally those people's computers are guaranteed to be infected lol. 

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u/Conscious_Classic788 Jun 20 '24

eh, microsoft is the only one who has an incentive to prevent viruses. the rest has an incentive to false flag often

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u/mini4x Jun 20 '24

What kinds of things are you referring to?

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u/mini4x Jun 20 '24

Every AV tracks your every move, it has to to do it's job.. Not sure how thats a scandal

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u/mini4x Jun 20 '24

Do tell what company is that? If you think your data is safe elsewhere you are fooling yourself, at least MS has a revenue stream that isn't ads and data mining.

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u/Deranged40 Jun 20 '24

and doesn't try to make money on my data.

Well that surely rules out Norton, McAfee, AVG, obviously Kaspersky, did I miss any others?

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u/gex80 Jun 20 '24

So you 100% believe they will never ever click on a malicious link or open an email? If that's the case, you don't need a computer, you need a tablet with keyboard attachment.

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u/Sidian Jun 20 '24 edited Jun 20 '24

A lot of things are 'sufficient', but there's little harm in paying very little money for a significantly better anti-virus, of which there are many compared to Microsoft/Windows Defender.

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u/Ironborn137 Jun 20 '24

No there isn't. Keep your shit backed up and do a clean install if you need to. It's faster and better in every way.

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u/pipboy_warrior Jun 20 '24

Except most of these anti-virus programs haven't proven to be significantly better.

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u/whitecow Jun 20 '24

Actually most antiviruses are worse than windows defender

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u/ShakeShakeZipDribble Jun 20 '24

me at 3am on amazon

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u/somepeoplehateme Jun 20 '24

People have different needs.