Kaspersky develops some of the top ones productsafety in the world, but that doesn't seem to be helping the company in the United States. Recall that the US government accused the company of hiding backdoors in its software to help Russia spy on high-profile users.
So a big US distribution chain Best Buy has decided to prohibit the sale of Kaspersky products due to these concerns, removing any software developed by the Russian company from its stores and its website.
A company spokesman referred to the incident as saying that Kaspersky's story contained "too many unanswered questions", without giving further details.
The decision is not surprising. Earlier this year, it was reported that The FBI was approaching private sector companies to ban Kaspersky's products, as part of a national effort against the Russian company.
The whole controversy began in July when the US government decided to remove Kaspersky from the approved software list, explaining that the company could cooperate with Russians to spy on users.
Of course, Kaspersky denies all charges and even offered to perform security checks to prove that its software is completely clean. But the US government continues its campaign against the company, pressuring companies in the public and private sectors not to use the products in question security.
The latest categories come from Senator Jeanne Shaheen, who revealed in a column of the New York Times that six senior officials, including the CIA and FBI chiefs, voted against the use of Kaspersky software and expressed their concerns about possible backdoors that Russia can use to spy on users.
"In addition to the evidence of direct ties between Eugene Kaspersky and the Russian government, we cannot ignore indirect ties to President Vladimir Putin's conduct of business in Russia, where oligarchs and tycoons have no other choice from the cooperation with the Kremlin" he explained.
Users who purchased Kaspersky software from Best Buy and still have valid licenses will be able to replace them free with other security products in the next 45 days.
