Reply to post: Re: I'm not buying this..

Kaspersky Lab denies tricking AV rivals into nuking harmless files

Mark 85

Re: I'm not buying this..

Go back to the early days of Kaspersky. There was a virus that no one else had caught and suddenly this "unknown" company in Russia hit the mainstream media headlines about detecting it. There was a lot of suspicion in the IT world that Kaspersky created it, launched it on the world, then announced that they "spotted it" and were able to "protect" you from it. A rather nasty critter that virus as I recall.

But then, the whole industry has had rumors of similar shenanigans...

POST COMMENT House rules

Not a member of The Register? Create a new account here.

  • Enter your comment

  • Add an icon

Anonymous cowards cannot choose their icon