The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) warns against the use of antivirus software from the Russian manufacturer Kaspersky in accordance with §7 of the BSI Act.
The BSI recommends replacing applications from Kaspersky’s portfolio of antivirus software with alternative products.
Antivirus software, including the associated real-time cloud services, has extensive system permissions and must maintain a permanent, encrypted and unauditable connection to the manufacturer’s servers for system-related reasons (at least for updates).
Therefore, trust in a manufacturer’s reliability and self-protection, as well as its authentic ability to act, is critical to the secure use of such systems.
If there are doubts about the manufacturer’s reliability, antivirus software poses a particular risk to an IT infrastructure that is to be protected.
I suggest using Malwarebytes instead. If anyone has any other suggestions please post them here.
I thought this would happen. I don’t use Kaspersky myself, but it used to be a popular software around these parts. It might be the case of a good piece of software being thrown under the bus because of the Kremlin, but it’s really hard to trust closed-source software from Russia now.
Their only chance would be to relocate the entire company outside of Russia, and even then, it’s probably doomed anyway.
Pretty much every Anti Virus Software opens a privileged backdoor for the company. So you have to not only trust Microsoft but the company of that software too.
For most people Microsoft Defender should be good enough.
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The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) warns against the use of antivirus software from the Russian manufacturer Kaspersky in accordance with §7 of the BSI Act.
The BSI recommends replacing applications from Kaspersky’s portfolio of antivirus software with alternative products.
Antivirus software, including the associated real-time cloud services, has extensive system permissions and must maintain a permanent, encrypted and unauditable connection to the manufacturer’s servers for system-related reasons (at least for updates).
Therefore, trust in a manufacturer’s reliability and self-protection, as well as its authentic ability to act, is critical to the secure use of such systems.
If there are doubts about the manufacturer’s reliability, antivirus software poses a particular risk to an IT infrastructure that is to be protected.
I suggest using Malwarebytes instead. If anyone has any other suggestions please post them here.
I thought this would happen. I don’t use Kaspersky myself, but it used to be a popular software around these parts. It might be the case of a good piece of software being thrown under the bus because of the Kremlin, but it’s really hard to trust closed-source software from Russia now.
Their only chance would be to relocate the entire company outside of Russia, and even then, it’s probably doomed anyway.
Pretty much every Anti Virus Software opens a privileged backdoor for the company. So you have to not only trust Microsoft but the company of that software too.
For most people Microsoft Defender should be good enough.