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READ the terms of service and privacy policies, and their "Data processing for marketing purposes" agreement.
Here is what the Kaspersky products WILL do with your computer:
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READ the terms of service and privacy policies, and their "Data processing for marketing purposes" agreement.
Here is what the Kaspersky products WILL do with your computer:
- Assign a uniquely identifying ID to your computer so that they know who all data comes from.
- Collect data about you which they are free to use for ANY marketing purposes, including selling the data to other companies.
- Log your computer name, username, list of installed devices and drivers and processors and serial numbers etc, and submit them all to Kaspersky. Analyzed for marketing purposes.
- Log all website URLs you visit, and submit them all to Kaspersky. Analyzed for marketing purposes and for website security ratings.
- Intercept all website traffic (including HTTPS) and analyze the page contents, including injecting some Kaspersky JavaScripts into them to allow their various browser "protections" to do their job.
- Installing a root certificate on your computer which allows them to impersonate and intercept any secure website in the world, which is how they are able to intercept HTTPS (banking, payment etc) traffic. They literally hijack all browser connections to secure sites (such as banking), remove the real encryption, re-encrypt it with the Kaspersky root certificate, and present it to the browser. Which means that Kaspersky's program sees everything you do online. They say this is for anti-virus, and I believe them, but it's still creepy and LOWERS your security since their FAKE certificate replaces the REAL website certificates, which in turn makes your browser unable to detect any certificate problems with the REAL certificate (for example, the browser cannot detect fraudulently replaced certificates on the actual website, since the browser always only sees Kaspersky's fake certificate instead of what the site really presented)...
- Log all applications you have installed on your computer, and their disk paths, and submit them all to Kaspersky. Analyzed for marketing purposes.
- Log your active application and its window titlebar title and disk path, and submit them all to Kaspersky. Analyzed for marketing purposes.
- Log how much you use each application on your computer, and submit them all to Kaspersky. Analyzed for marketing purposes.
- Log which buttons you click on most inside applications (they mention assigning "IDs" to buttons and collecting that data), and submit them all to Kaspersky. Analyzed for marketing purposes.
- Detect suspicious activity from applications as part of its 0-day malware heuristics, and collect the application name, disk path, executable/dll files, and RAM contents (for that application I assume, but the policy didn't specify), and submit them all to Kaspersky. Analyzed for Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) anti-malware purposes. They take each incoming virus sample, do a cloud analysis and comparison against other received samples, and if they've received a lot of a sample, they analyze it via machines and possibly human intervention and then generate an anti-virus fingerprint to allow the static detection engine to detect the file from now on...
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