US customers of Kaspersky antivirus find that UltraAV was installed remotely to replace Kaspersky on their PCs, after a Kaspersky deal with UltraAV owner Pango
switchover caught many users by surprise Ernestas Naprys / Cybernews.com : Kaspersky users shocked by automatic antivirus replacement without explicit permission Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / BetaNews : Kaspersky users in the US find themselves forcibly migrated to the mysterious UltraAV Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : Kaspersky Replaces Antivirus with UltraAV Following US Exit Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek : Users Quick To Remove UltraAV After Silent Transition From Kaspersky Antivirus Alaina Yee / PCWorld : Kaspersky just slipped a different antivirus onto subscribers' PCs The Hacker News : Kaspersky Exits U.S., Automatically Replaces Software With UltraAV, Raising Concerns Paul Shread / The Cyber Express : Kaspersky's Weird Exit from the U.S. Market Catches Users Off Guard Kristina Beek / Dark Reading : Kaspersky Rolls Back for US Customers, Makes Way for UltraAV Zeljka Zorz / Help Net Security : US-based Kaspersky users startled by unexpected UltraAV installation Simon Batt / MakeUseOf : If “UltraAV” Has Randomly Appeared on Your PC, Here's Why Sayan Sen / Neowin : Kaspersky users suddenly finding “UltraAV” automatically installed on their PC, here's why X: Eva / @evacide : JFC Kaspersky, uninstalling your software from US devices is fine, but installing a different AV without warning or consent is bananas. This is not how you exit a market. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ ... Rob Joyce / @rgb_lights : This is why handing root-level access to Kaspersky was a huge risk. Users were “migrated” - software uninstalled and a totally different product was installed automagically. They had total control of your machine. #itsabouttrust Kontra / @counternotions : Can't for EU to force Apple to interop with Kaspersky in the name of competition in platform security, but I digress. https://techcrunch.com/... @malwrhunterteam : 🤡 sounding move from Kaspersky, but not really surprising... 🤷♂️ Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @lorenzofb : NEW: Some U.S. customers of Kaspersky antivirus received a surprise, forced, and automatic update to little-known UltraAV antivirus. “They should NEVER push software onto someone's computer without explicit permission,” one ex Kaspersky customer told me. https://techcrunch.com/... Oleg Shakirov / @shakirov2036 : After Kaspersky's US sales were banned, a US company Pango purchased from it 1 mil users & is now migrating them to its own product by automatically deleting Kaspersky and installing UltraAV. Many users were caught by surprise & are not excited about this https://www.reddit.com/... [image] Forums: r/technews : Kaspersky deletes itself, installs UltraAV antivirus without warning r/nottheonion : Kaspersky deletes itself, installs UltraAV antivirus without warning r/antivirus : Kaspersky deletes itself, installs UltraAV antivirus without warning r/technology : Kaspersky deletes itself, installs UltraAV antivirus without warning Msmash / Slashdot : Some Kaspersky Customers Receive Surprise Forced-Update To New Antivirus Software 1