>>>>This sort of thing erodes trust, which is getting as rare as hen's teeth in the computing business these days.
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>>>And now for the next clown act: "Russian antivirus firm (Kaspersky) faked malware to harm rivals"
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>>>http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/14/us-kaspersky-rivals-idUSKCN0QJ1CR20150814
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>>Not too sure about that one: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/15/kaspersky_comment/
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>In such things there will always be accusations and denials. Who can know the truth. I think one can only form some opinions based on the news sources and using common sense. I think the Reuters article is pretty convincing plus such behavior would not seem out of the realm of possibility imo.

McAffee was accused of such behavior even in DOS days.