Kaspersky Lab rebuffs claims it faked malware

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Russian vendor bats away claims by two former employees that it waged false positive campaigns against Microsoft, AVG and other rivals

Kaspersky Lab has denied claims from two anonymous former employees that it suckered competitors into categorising benign files as malicious. According to Reuters, beginning ten years ago, the R...

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