MajorMike

OK, so I write e-mails to my US Senators, Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, to get some information regarding the advertisement and docket numbers normally associated with Federal Rulemaking. Not one minute after I pushed the "SEND" button, I started receiving e-mails from Crowdstrike (Austin, TX); Microsoft (Redmond, WA); and McAfee (San Jose, CA) advertising their AV products. It seems to me that we might have a bigger cybersecurity risk within our own borders and we have with a company with a corporate HQ in Moscow, RU.

My subscriptions just renewed and I later read that Joe Biden is planning to ban the use of Kaspersky anti-virus products by the end of April. Where did this idea get hatched and why haven't subscribers been notified? How is this government ban going to work? Will black SUVs suddenly show up at my business and start seizing my computers? Will internet connections to government websites and portals be suddenly blocked? Will Kaspersky issue work-arounds for its users? Will Kaspersky offer refunds for subscriptions? All good questions.

Thanks. I think this works. Mike

Berny, Thanks for answering. I tried using Google Chrome and MS Edge. I’m using https//, if that means anything. Mike

My wife tried to get online bank statements. Got “Err_Connection_timed_out” message. Using Windows 10, Total Security, Windows defender “off”, ethernet connection. I tried to reach the same website on each computer in my office and had same result. Finally turned on Kaspersky VPN and was able to access the site. I got to looking for instructions to “whitelist” the address and couldn’t find what I was looking for. It would seem safer to access this information through an ethernet connection and my Kaspersky Total Security than sending the traffic through a VPN. Am I wrong or right? Can somebody point me to the right instructions for allowing traffic to and from my bank?