[lizardactivist]

The same warning obviously applies to all the American AV vendors, given what we have learned in the last years. And this is not idle speculation and baseless accusations, it's right from the inside part of the NSA and CIA leaks.

So what is one to do? Where is the free open-source AV the world needs, which has the same number of highly skilled full-time developers and researchers as Kaspersky does?

There really needs to be a global AV effort and software, funded by governments, but open and transparent, and based in a country which does not sit in the shadows of over-reaching spying agencies. But what will it take for this to happen?