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Kaspersky deletes itself, installs UltraAV antivirus without warning.
(www.bleepingcomputer.com)
The fact that software can do that should be the news lol
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2024
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Software has always been able to do this
It's just renamed itself.
They really decided to be annoying to the very end. Typical Kaspersky.
Super sketchy Russian software.
I'd say they wanted to be nice (although a bit creepy) but communication issues.
Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.
Let me guess, UltraAV whitelabels Kaspersky…
No, since that would be sanctioned as well.
In Soviet Russia anti-virus is pro-virus!
Ironic
I feel this is super air quotey "UltraAV" lol, i might toss the hard drive if this happened to me
Frankly, if you've got untrustworthy software with that level of access and a threat model dangerous enough to throw out the hard drive, you'd probably better throw out the whole computer instead. In addition to the hard drive controller, malicious code could persist in the UEFI firmware, the graphics card firmware, or even in the Intel IME/AMD PSP subsystems.
jfc....
TIL