Kaspersky is just one piece of software to avoid. Others include:
- Telegram
- Avast AV
- Anything from 360 Safe / Qihoo 360
- Opera browser … now owned by above
- Zoom
- FileZilla / UTorrent / other PUA that bundles adware and acts essentially as a trojan
Ah fuck, what’s the alternative to FileZilla?! I’ve been using that for like 17 years.
So just to illustrate, I went to the normal FileZilla download page and downloaded the Win64 package. Then I submitted it to VirusTotal.
https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?platform=win64#close
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/dbde8a4bd71bb1fbc0511cdb657dfeffdaedc513aa425f856043532a7cba6fce
If you click other versions, there are installers without the adware.
Those dumbasses have been doing this for years. I don’t know if it has viruses and such in it but it has had the bundled stuff for a while now.
I wish it didn’t since it’s a great program.
As someone who has used FileZilla for years, I am shook and I appreciate you pasting the link
Dolphin on KDE/Linux and WinSCP on Windows
Same here.
CrossFTP seems promising. Also has the multi OS support.
Cyberduck
I’d say avoid AVG too then since it’s basically Avast.
I don’t even use antivirus software anymore. Previously, every time I found a new one recommended by security experts I thought I could trust, about a year later, it turned to shit or was relieved to always having been shit. Now I just backup my stuff and vet any executable. I don’t do any serious work on my Windows install anyway, so nuking it isn’t a problem.
Does Escape from Tarkov make the list?
Out of curiosity, why Telegram? (Im out of the loop on this one)
As for uTorrent, I’ve got version 2.2.1 and have never allowed it to update in the last decade or however long it’s been. I think that was the last version that didn’t allow any ads or otherwise and was simply a solid p2p client at the time.
Because it’s less (because of history stored on server and use of OTR being problematic) secure than ICQ in year 2003, prone to phishing and, yes, made by people I wouldn’t trust.
Telegram ftw. Down with WhatsApp.
Signal has better defaults and a less compromised origin
Nobody I know is using it so the point is almost moot :(
Country in a trade war / cold war with another country decides to block imports of some product from said other country, citing fears of the product being poisoned. It’s barely news.
It’s news. That’s all that matters.
Also this is actually a pretty unique and interesting scenario. You ever seen a digital embargo of software from a single country imposed on citizens? Not to mention the dignity and rights violations on both sides…
Yes, I’ve seen digital embargoes preventing companies in other countries doing business in mine, because their legal environment differs from ours.
Google Analytics got banned in several European countries comes to mind. I remember some small blogs writing about that, not much else.
I mean, regardless of semantics about whether it’s new to us or not, that’s still news.
Why would anybody in their right mind use Kasper by now.
Why would anyone trust, want to use, and yet alone pay for Russian antivirus software
Because it’s a good antivirus
Good luck
Only pure all-American spyware on my machine. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅
You’d think the fact that Kaspersky is useless would be enough to keep people from using it.
You would think that but I have a Friend that bought the paid version and swears by it, he had more than enough problems with it blocking everything it wants, I don’t say anything anymore I just shake my head and move on.
It’s not useless for brainless users sadly
We gonna have to worry about 7zip?
FBI on its way to arrest me because I used MPC-BE to play dolby digital content without a license for the ac3 codec like 10 years ago lol
Russia has computers???
Wow the comments and upvotes/downvotes here are stupid.
😂😂😂.
American software is created by Jesus Christ.
