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Like other talented, young Russian programmers, Kaspersky got started early. This is reflected in a survey of 206 businesses - 40% of whom said they would consider switching desktop security vendors within 12 months, ESG says. Kaspersky finds itself competing directly with the big boys for fewer prospects.
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Sales of computer-security software for consumers are expected to grow just 20%, to $3.5 billion, by 2012, according to Gartner. Kaspersky is making strides against the backdrop of a slackening market. "It's the tender, loving care model," says Jon Oltsik, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). Kaspersky has recruited retailers and distributors, such as Best Buy, Fry's Electronics and Staples, by giving them more attractive profit margins and marketing and technical support. "But Eugene said two things: The threat was changing, and the sophistication of the technology was changing."
When Kaspersky made its pitch to retailers in the spring of 2006, many were skeptical about "another Internet security product on their shelves," says Steve Orenberg, president of Kaspersky Lab. The company has succeeded in large part because in 2004 it was the first to identify a major shift by hackers to cybercrime, security experts say, and it tapped into a growing audience of consumers who were willing to pay extra for a security-software program to protect their PCs. Its sales soared 137%, to $15.5 million, through August, according to The NPD Group. Kaspersky is the only major vendor to improve retail sales of antivirus and computer-security suite software in the U.S. The up-and-coming computer-security company is slowly gaining share - based on market and unit sales in the U.S. this fall as it takes on industry giants Symantec and McAfee. It followed that up with an advertising blitz online and in print in the U.S. In August, his Kaspersky Lab introduced a slew of consumer products in North America, based on its well-regarded security software. and elsewhere after establishing a beachhead of retailers in North America the past few years.
We’d like to thank Ronald Eikenberg for reporting this to us.The 11-year-old computer-security company, which made its name in its native Russia and Germany, is now setting its sights on the U.S. Nevertheless, we are constantly working on improving our technologies and products, resulting in a change in this process. This change was made after Ronald Eikenberg reported to us that using unique identifiers for the GET requests can potentially lead to the disclosure of a user’s personal information.Īfter our internal research, we have concluded that such scenarios of user’s privacy compromise are theoretically possible but are unlikely to be carried out in practice, due to their complexity and low profitability for cybercriminals. Kaspersky has changed the process of checking web pages for malicious activity by removing the usage of unique identifiers for the GET requests. To prevent Kaspersky's antivirus to inoculate the problematic Javascript script-which it does by default-we recommend to manually uncheck it in the software settings, depending of course on how you feel about being spied upon.īelow is Kaspersky Labs' response to our story:
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Last month, Kaspersky issued a patch which gives the same identifier for all the users of a specific version of the Russian company's antivirus software (Kaspersky Anti-Virus, Kaspersky Internet Security, Kaspersky Total Security, Kaspersky Free Anti-Virus, Kaspersky Small Office Security) which still allows a malicious hacker to know that an antivirus software is installed on the machine and whether the version has already been patched against the ID leak-which is still very valuable information for an attacker. "At this point, it was clear that this was a serious security issue." "Even the incognito mode did not offer any protection against the Kaspersky-infused tracking," added Eikenberg.
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Furthermore, Eikenberg also found out that Kaspersky's servers were injecting a unique identifier into the HTML source code of the visited Web page that not only identifies a particular user but also the computer used.