When the software was re-enabled, it detected both the Equation Group code, as well as unrelated backdoor infections created by a keygen program for Office, which may have facilitated third-party access to the computer.Įdited by hamluis, 15 January 2021 - 11:42 AM. Kaspersky claimed that the antivirus software had been temporarily disabled by the PC's user in order to install a pirated copy of Microsoft Office.
Eugene Kaspersky stated that he ordered that the sample be destroyed. The user had enabled the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) features of the software, so the files were automatically uploaded to Kaspersky as a malware sample to KSN for analysis, under the assumption that it was a new malware variant. Take everything on Reddit with a grain of salt, its pretty biased and its full of people with all kinds of opinions.Īnd I think it is the allegations of kaspersky spying on you that youre talking about, all it is is US propaganda amid paranoia and growing tensions between the US and Russia, heres what happened:įrom wikipedia: On 25 October 2017, Kaspersky confirmed that the incident described by The Wall Street Journal had occurred in 2014, and was the result of the software having detected a ZIP file containing samples and source code from the Equation Group.
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