Right now I believe my wife is being a little paranoid, but I’m going to take KIS off her computer this weekend. She thinks it’s possible that cyber attacks on big targets could come by way of installed Kaspersky software on little targets. Shouldn’t we expect some of them to be more concerned with being patriotic Russians than the reputation of Kaspersky. She says many of the top tech people at Kaspersky are Russians trained in cyber security by the Russian government. My wife is more worried about this than I am. I wouldn’t worry about Kaspersky doing anything bad, it would destroy their reputation and their company. Probably not really necessary but then again … In any case, and for whatever good this might do, these days I would stay off anything coming from East of the Urals, all the way to the Pacific coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. those shall, yes, quite likely be deemed acts of war. Except that, if bad enough and traced back to Putin and Co. are much more practical things to go after for greatest damage with the least exposure, and greatest gain, including monetary one. in them (whether we put it there or not), military computer systems, etc. There may be cyber attacks with refined, military-grade tools, but no reason why they should be directed against the little guy, when the computer networks that control infrastructure facilities, such as water distribution systems and water treatment plants, nuclear power stations and electrical grids, also the big data caches “in the Cloud” with our personal info. The USA government is rallying its allies in Europe and with their help, is making moves to hurt the people in Putin’s circle until they (supposedly) cry “uncle” (Sam), but who can tell if that will happen? I m not even sure that we are technically at war with anyone, at least right now. BobK, I cannot recommend anything with certainty, because, these days, nobody knows what is going to happen in the larger world arena any day now, let alone in the little Kapersky’s one.
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