Subj : Re: Government employees
To   : GREGORY DEYSS
From : Mike Powell
Date : Mon Dec 23 2024 08:44:00

> A Kaspersky employee also shared an official statement on the company's
> official forums regarding the forced switch to UltraAV, saying that it
> "partnered with antivirus provider UltraAV to ensure continued protection for
> US-based customers that will no longer have access to Kaspersky's
rotections.

> "Kaspersky has additionally partnered with UltraAV to make the transition to
> their product as seamless as possible, which is why on 9/19, U.S. Kaspersky
> antivirus customers received a software update facilitating the transition to
> UltraAV," it added.

Wow, so they did that themselves!

In that case, to answer you question about government machines... many
business and government agencies have their machines set up to where their
IT staff have control over the update process.  For example, at a company I
worked at, we didn't get any Windows Update pester messages about upgrading
to the next version of Windows.  We didn't run Windows Update at all.

Machines that faced the outside world had to be updated regularly, but most
office machines were not updated until the updates were vetted.  We
completely skipped a couple of Windows versions, too, because of security
or other concerns.

So, assuming these federal offices are controlling their update processes,
I am guessing the machines were not pointed directly to Kaspersky to get
updates and the forced change to UltraAV didn't happen.


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