Some Kaspersky customers receive surprise forced-update to new antivirus software | TechCrunch
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"Woke up to Kaspersky completely gone from my system with Ultra AV and Ultra VPN freshly installed (not by me, just automatically while I slept)."
A reseller said he was left "annoyed" by the move to automatically remove Kaspersky software and replace it with an entirely different antivirus.
A former senior U.S. government cybersecurity official stated this situation highlights the "huge risk" posed by the access granted by Kaspersky software.
Customers received an email from Kaspersky about the transition to UltraAV, but confusion remains regarding the automatic nature of the software switch.
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