Kaspersky resellers deride US government ban: Complete bulls—t
Summary
Last week, the U.S. government announced an unprecedented ban on selling in the United States any software made by the Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky. Avi Fleischer, the founder of Technical Difficulties, told TechCrunch that not only does he sell Kaspersky to his customers, he also uses its products on his phone and personal computer. He added that the ban is “annoying, to say the least,” because he will now have to find another antivirus company and migrate all his customers to the new product, which will cost him time and money. What am I supposed to do?” Fleischer said that he has between 300 and 400 customer endpoints — meaning computers or servers — running Kaspersky software right now. I wish it had just been a ban on future sales, but the fact that it will actively block updates from Kaspersky starting at the end of September is a huge problem for the company and their clients,” Finnigan said in an email.