Kaspersky Accused Of Using Fake Malware To Sabotage Competing Antivirus Software

Quote:The allegation is that Kaspersky Lab had select employees purposely inject bad code into normal, common files, so that its competitors could pick them up as malicious, and in the worst case, delete them from a user's PC. That could result in broken software or perhaps even a broken operating system.

Link to article: http://hothardware.com/news/kaspersky-ac...s-software

I believe I saw reports that the U.S. government now prohibits Kaspersky on any government machine - due to privacy concerns.