[fredgrott]

Side note, If you are developing software that hacks anything WHY IN THE HELL would you have any antivirus software installed knowing full well that antivirus software extracts any detected virus and sends it elsewhere? For context that was the excuse for the 2017 ban of Russian antivirus firm....

[wongarsu]

An NSA contractor writing malware choosing to use Kaspersky is either a massive mark against that contractor or a massive endorsement of Kaspersky.

[slt2021]

Two reasons:

  1. Kaspersky AV had the strongest heuristics analyzer and the largest signature base

  2. If you write malware, you want to test it periodically (in sandbox) if AV engines detect it