The government needs to get this off shelves, block buying it online and get real about cybersecurity.
User bjm_ posted a link to the 21-Oct-2017 ISMG Network article Surveying 17 Anti-Virus Firms on Their Security Practices in his Security News thread, and the subtitle of this thread is In Kaspersky Lab Saga's Wake, Here's How AV Firms Have Responded - Or Not. Several security firms like Avira, BitDefender, Emsisoft and Kaspersky have responded to the six questions posed by ISMG but Symantec still hasn't replied.
Symantec continues to ignore requests that it pin a post at the top of the NIS/N360/NAV board warning users that Norton v21.x products were not patched for the critical security vulnerabilities listed in SYM16-010 (see comments in RLWA32's thread Support of NIS 21.7.0.11 Discontinued) and I'm not surprised that AV vendors other than Kaspersky are now receiving increased scrutiny about possible vulnerabilities in their own products.
The Wall Street Journal ran an article on this recently (circa October 11, 2017). They confirmed the issues with Kaspersky. The comments from the readers were the most interesting part of the article. A subscription, unfortunately, is required to read the article.
Naah!! Its more than people want to give credence to. People having unabated access to IT infrastructure has a reason.
Not sure what to believe here... From what i knew, Kaspersky was a solid program right up there with Norton if not better.
Send explains,
"Russian hackers using the Kaspersky antivirus installed on it.."
Now, i would imagine, that just because hackers exploited the program for their own ends, doesn't necessarily reflect collusion between the criminals and Kaspersky?
Sincerely,
H.B.
So Kaspersky detected US spyware. Good!
Sounds super interesting! Do you have a link mate? I would love to read more on this 
That's the original reference. 
Cheers
There is evidence that secret NSA data, including information on how the US is able to penetrate foreign systems and how we protect our own, was stolen from a contractor's personal computer by Russian hackers using the Kaspersky antivirus installed on it. Not a witch hunt.
Renewed FBI scrutiny, May 2017 is hardly "old news". http://abcnews.go.com/US/officials-fear-russia-target-us-popular-software-firm/story?id=47295729 Most won't come to the conclusion about the obvious these days unless its slapping them in the face directly. One thing is very apparent, Russia IS gaining unfettered access to government infrastructure. A lot of them licensed to use this junk. If they can gain access to a personal device running it you tell me!!
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We aggressively protect our users and we’re proud of it.
https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2017/10/05/we-aggressively-protect-our-users-and-were-proud-of-it/
Two recent articles on this topic include security expert Graham Cluley's recent blog entry McAfee joins the anti-Kaspersky witch hunt in shitty attempt to sell a few boxes as well as Vess Bontchev's excellent op-ed Understanding the US Government/Kaspersky Lab Controversy on Medium.com.
Kudos to Woody Leonhard for posting those links in his AskWoody.com article US government is banning, bad-mouthing Kaspersky. But why?
Old news. This happened in 2015.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/5/16431564/kaspersky-russian-hackers-nsa-document-breach