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Lol, your comment makes it particularly clear that you have no idea how antivirus software usually works.

It was found to be uploading files to Russia when their algo figured it was good docs for the Russians to have.

Not documents, but malware-looking files. This is normal.

The problem came about when people working with government malware had Kaspersky on their computers and it happened to upload samples of that government malware, but presumably just about any other AV would’ve done the same.

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