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EU, US and their allies can kick Kaspersky off the market. It would be a game over for Kaspersky meaning zero installs(licenses) and zero revenue. It is not worth to do it not even in the short term. Trust would be forever lost.



Trust doesn't matter when you and your team know the alternative is 20 years in a Siberian gulag.


>> The Russian state might not care a lot about that possible consequence and still coerce them to include malware in the next update.

> EU, US and their allies can kick Kaspersky off the market. It would be a game over for Kaspersky meaning zero installs(licenses) and zero revenue. It is not worth to do it not even in the short term. Trust would be forever lost.

Do you think Putin would shed even a single tear over Kaspersky, if what you describe was the consequence of him getting something he wanted?




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