Bills advice is why I went with the manufacturer of my operating system for its security. And I do practice secure computing. Mostly 🤣

I like the story about John Mcafee who wrote the first commercial anti-virus software, founding McAfee Associates to sell his creation. He died last year, His death generated speculation and conspiracy theories about the possibility that he was murdered. His wife, Janice McAfee, said she did not believe McAfee committed suicide, and that the suicide note was a forgery. More here

In reply to a post by Michael_Chare:

I like the story about John Mcafee who wrote the first commercial anti-virus software, founding McAfee Associates to sell his creation.

Was it him, or Peter Norton? They must have been about the same time.

In reply to a post by trolleybus:

Can anyone provide a sound technical reason why I should remove Kaspersky Antivirus for Windows (2022) from my PC and replaced it with something else?

Just noticed this…

FCC says Russia’s Kaspersky Lab is a national security threat

I posted about this last year and again more recently after seeing this in Techcrunch.

Maybe Mr Kaspersky with his background in Russian cybersecurity can be trusted as much as that nice Mr. Putin? I don't think so. As I said before, those Len Deighton novels aren't so fanciful now. If Russia wanted to cause cyberchaos how better than crashing or even plundering the accounts of millions of people to which they already have full access?

Quite unrelated, but after removing KIS after many years my family notice that our computers boot and surf noticeably faster using MS Defender.

Edited by Malwaremike (Mon 28-Mar-22 14:30:07)

Interested to know if anyone has removed KIS recently and what method they use to remove it.
Also would like to know how to confirm all traces have been removed and the is "nothing left behind"

Clean windows reinstall.

Plenty of advice by Googling, but all the ones I found rely on one or more tools from Kaspersky... if you don't entirely trust them in the first place then Pheasant's suggestion is the way to go.

eta- It has a reputation for being difficult to get rid of completely, but I've never used it myself so can't confirm that.

Edited by billford (Tue 29-Mar-22 10:21:00)

We have five PCs on W10 and used the normal 'remove program' app under System. Uninstall went smoothly and we declined offer to retain licence data etc. It's necessary to restart afterwards. We did wonder, too, so just in case I tried Malwarebytes and AdAware scans which found nothing ...

Many thanks to everyone who replied