Open an account at Barclays and Kaspersky comes free

In reply to a post by 961a:

Open an account at Barclays and Kaspersky comes free

Got Barclays,only one licence, not enough for me.

Two for free, 5 for £6

In reply to a post by ukhardy07:

Yes buy on amazon or somewhere and enter the key. If it's a newer version they should provide you a download link to get the software.

I'll do that next time

I've had Kaspersky for years now - probably 2007/8, but my UK c/s contact was excellent and she always sorted any glitches or queries very quickly. She was super helpful & knowledgeable.
Shame she's not doing that job now, but it means I'll buy the renewal each year from such as Amazon.

In reply to a post by 961a:

Open an account at Barclays and Kaspersky comes free

I prefer for us to just stay with the bank we have thanks, but free is good.

It seems absurd to me to be installing security software on my PC that is made by someone who trained with the Russian FSB, particularly as Russia is seen as the biggest security threat to the UK at the present time, especially as it is a type of sofware that digs very deep into the OS.
Pontential for it to be a very powerfull malware tool for Russaia and we pay them to install it.

That could apply to any other comprehensive AV software I suppose.
Surely some other good AV brand would have the ability to take great delight in exposing anything untoward about a rival product.
Kaspersky seems to be quite highly regarded.

Considering some other widely used applications and websites have the ability to know what we're doing a lot of the time, I won't lose much sleep over Kaspersky.
Nothing I do would be of any interest to the Russians anyway

In reply to a post by TrishaH:

That could apply to any other comprehensive AV software I suppose.
Surely some other good AV brand would have the ability to take great delight in exposing anything untoward about a rival product.
Kaspersky seems to be quite highly regarded.

Considering some other widely used applications and websites have the ability to know what we're doing a lot of the time, I won't lose much sleep over Kaspersky.
Nothing I do would be of any interest to the Russians anyway

It could apply to any antivirus, and a lot of software, but kaspersky is developed by an FSB trained person and is updated as and when the software desires.
It could easily be re appropriated into a very powerful hacking tool / botnet by the FSB at the drop of a hat, for warfare.
A serious potential national security issue to my mind.

In reply to a post by Spl:

A serious potential national security issue to my mind.

Seeing as this all relates to MS windows, then you fail on every front straight away, no matter what AV you people _need_ to buy to keep the thing going - you don't control nor own any of it.

It's true that MS and a lot of software will be riddled with back doors and security holes etc, but it is a different thing to pay to insatll software from a hostile securiy service ie the FSB and help with their development costs and feed them masses of info on malware in the wild.

In reply to a post by Spl:

It's true that MS and a lot of software will be riddled with back doors and security holes etc, but it is a different thing to pay to insatll software from a hostile securiy service ie the FSB and help with their development costs and feed them masses of info on malware in the wild.

The need to use any third party AV software seems strange to me as I have only used Windows Defender for at least 10 years and have never installed any other AV tool. I have never had a virus or email spam message.
The key word imo is "Money" , all AV software [or most of it] has to be paid for , if not the company dies.
So the company could if they wish infect your PC with a virus , then you pay to get it off.?
At least with MS Windows Defender no extra money is asked for.

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