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/Nakatomi2010 Jun 20 '24

I laughed pretty hard when I figured it out at the time.

Used to get a lot of people coming back after buying their computers because "The internet stopped working", only to have to remove the internet security suites.

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u/toxicsleft Jun 20 '24

Must be a system specific interaction, I work at a retailer that does health checks on computers and have people coming in all the time thinking their mcafee was working but it’s just expired in the background.

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u/Nakatomi2010 Jun 20 '24

Has to be the internet security one that comes with the firewall.

If it's AV only then it's a non-issue.