Kaspersky produced a “fake” viruses? – Interaktywnie.com

So say its former employees – writes Reurters agency, which reports that dealings has been going on for over 10 years and had to reduce the effectiveness of software competition. He had to know about him even Yevgeny Kaspierskiego – one of the founders and CEO of Kaspersky Lab. The Russian company has denied.

Reuters says that Kaspersky Lab employees regular files, which are part of the software on most computers is processed so that it looked like malware files and anonymously primer for the program VirusTotal, dealing with the scanning Online antivirus and registration malware. It is used by other manufacturers ‘antivirus’ to update their own applications. If the information proves to be true to Reuters, false viruses might affect the competition programs such as Avast or AVG, which identify safe files as a threat and adversely affect the operation of computers.

What do Kaspersky Lab? Completely denies that the revelations Reuters were true: – Kaspersky Lab has never conducted any secret campaign to deceive the solutions to their competitors in order to generate false alarms, which would damage the reputation of these companies. These types of actions are unethical, dishonest and illegal. Presented by anonymous, disappointed former employees of the accusations, which shows that Kaspersky Lab – or her CEO – she was involved in such activities, they are worthless and false. As a member of the IT security community, we share our research with other manufacturers, as well as receive and analyze information about threats from others. Although competition in the IT security market is large, the trusted exchange of data is a key element for the entire IT ecosystem and make every effort to ensure the smooth running of information between us and the competition.

He admitted, however, that conducted the experiment. Was to put 20 samples harmless programs multiskanerze VirusTotal, which should not cause any false alarms because the files were completely clean and harmless. The experiment was designed to draw attention to IT security community to the problem of insufficient quality detection by multikanery, namely the fact that recognition files to be harmful just because some manufacturers have marked them in this way, without additional testing behavior of individual objects.