Sexist Antivirus? That's a new one.

[Ericloewe]

It's everyone's favorite sexist piece of malware antivirus software, Kaspersky!

This is a real pop up I got after a recent update, which correlates temporally with the start of this issue. Assholes also turned their glorified Man-In-The-Middle attack on HTTPS back on, after I'd explicitly disabled that "feature".

Guess who's not getting my money in ~180 days.

 

[INCSlayer]

But dont you wanna be the MAN?

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[anodos]

It's everyone's favorite sexist piece of malware antivirus software, Kaspersky!

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This is a real pop up I got after a recent update, which correlates temporally with the start of this issue. Assholes also turned their glorified Man-In-The-Middle attack on HTTPS back on, after I'd explicitly disabled that "feature".

Guess who's not getting my money in ~180 days.

Wait... so you're actually paying for A/V protection on a home computer?

 

[Ericloewe]

Wait... so you're actually paying for A/V protection on a home computer?

It is a bit surreal, and over the years, there have been far more instances of Kaspersky pissing me off than of it announcing that it eliminated some real threat.

I guess it's for the occasional dodgy USB drive I'm handed, but even those are becoming rarer.

 

[anodos]

It is a bit surreal, and over the years, there have been far more instances of Kaspersky pissing me off than of it announcing that it eliminated some real threat.

I guess it's for the occasional dodgy USB drive I'm handed, but even those are becoming rarer.

Endpoint protection products like Kasperksy make more sense in a business environment in which they allow centralized deployment and management of A/V and features like data loss protection, ability to detect when users are doing malicious things, etc. I think home users are fine just using Windows Defender, EMET, and doing some basic client hardening steps. You don't need to streamline your admin workflow when you're only dealing with a couple of computers, and so a lot of the added value of the more sophisticated endpoint protection suites is somewhat lost.

 

[Robert Smith]

I do not get the ad, though. Cyber Security World is a conference. What exactly are we supposed to do, register and bring ladies? Do ladies enter for free?

What is the reward? Is it per lady brought?

Do ladies have to be hot?

 

[anodos]

I do not get the ad, though. Cyber Security World is a conference. What exactly are we supposed to do, register and bring ladies? Do ladies enter for free?

What is the reward? Is it per lady brought?

Do ladies have to be hot?

I guess in some ways there's not a lot of progress since these days