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Published in TZ Latest News 28 August, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff

Exclusive: Russia’s Kaspersky threatened to ‘rub out’ rival, email shows

In 2009, Eugene Kaspersky, co-founder of one of the world’s top security companies, told some of his lieutenants that they should attack rival antivirus software maker AVG Technologies N.V. (AVG.N) by “rubbing them out in the outhouse,” one of several previously undisclosed emails shows. Former employees say that the reprisal Kaspersky was pushing for was to trick AVG’s antivirus software into producing false positives – that is, misclassifying clean computer files as infected.

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