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I hope they will continue to do so and not get swayed by this partisan hysteria. The only reason why this is being brought up about Kaspersky is because they're outside the control of the NSA and other Western security agencies, who have a history of seeking backdoors and the whitelisting of their own malware in security products that they can intimidate.
I'm more worried by the backdoors that my government seeks in such products than that done by the Russian government, who don't directly affect me. Still, let the silly "reds under the beds" hysterical distraction continue.
I'm still none the wiser whether Kaspersky anti-virus is 'safe' to use from this and other threads.
I continue to use Kaspersky software since I have a free licence and it has some useful features. I've also enabled Windows Defender Periodic Scanning as a further safeguard and do monthly scans with AdwCleaner and Malwarebytes (free version).
I've had no known problems to date unless the US software I'm using has missed the Russian backdoors!
Shouldn't we install, at least one anti-virus from every country on our systems, so the PC Social JusticeWarriorsButtheads don't get triggered?
I suspect there is more than a helping of fake news in all this paranoia.