![]() Kaspersky is also believed to offer its cybersecurity protection services to Russian state IT infrastructure, making it a concern that the company cannot stay completely neutral. Kaspersky's founder and CEO, Eugene Kaspersky, recently expressed a wish for "compromise" regarding Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which sparked outrage on Twitter, with many rejecting the firm's stance on the matter. Kaspersky is a Moscow-based cybersecurity and antivirus provider founded in 1997, that has a long history of success, but also controversy over the company's possible relationship with the Russian government. Germany's Federal Office for Information Security, BSI, is warning companies against using Kaspersky antivirus products due to threats made by Russia against the EU, NATO, and Germany. From the Home page you can quickly scan your computer for malware and check online to see whether your personal credentials have been compromised on the Security page you’ll also find buttons to download emergency boot media, and to scan your Windows configuration for suspicious or corrupted settings.Kaspersky Lab (Wikipedia, By Alexxsun - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0) Instead there are just a few buttons for the major functions. Although Kaspersky’s main business is commercial security products, the Kaspersky Free Windows client has no adverts or non-functional buttons – a real breath of fresh air. The user experience is delightfully clean. confirms the engine’s effectiveness: in its tests for January and February 2022, Kaspersky provided impeccable 100% protection against both new “zero-day” and widespread threats. It racked up fewer false positives too: against a set of more than 10,000 items, Kaspersky wrongly raised the alarm just twice, while Defender missed the mark five times. In the latest independent tests by the Kaspersky engine achieved a superb online protection score of 99.98% – slightly better than Microsoft Defender on 99.96%. ![]() There’s no question about Kaspersky’s malware-blocking credentials, though. ![]()
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