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.

Dear friends, First of all thank you for your trust and support! We understand you are insterested now mostly in answers to practical questions but we need some time to analyze the situation throully in order to provide you with more specific information. We will keep you informed. Currently it's what we can officially comment: Kaspersky is aware of the decision by the U.S. Department of Commerce to prohibit the sales and distribution of Kaspersky software in the United States. Kaspersky believes that the Department of Commerce made its decision based on the present geopolitical climate and theoretical concerns, rather than on a comprehensive evaluation of the integrity of Kaspersky’s products and services. While at the moment we are ensuring the fulfillment of our obligations under existing contracts and the uninterrupted work of our solutions to our users and customers in the United States, Kaspersky’s management team is currently reviewing the provisions of the Final Determination with a view to pursuing all legally available options to preserve our current operations and relationships. The Kaspersky team is diligently working to provide further guidance and respond to the questions of our clients as quickly as possible. We intend to release additional information on the company's support website soon. Update, July 3: Dear friends, Thank you for your patience and understanding! We prepared a special page at our Support website with more details about our software availability in the US: https://support.kaspersky.com/us/faq/2024-us-sales-statement

US Government Ban on private use of Kaspersky anti-virus

By MajorMike
April 16 in Kaspersky Total Security

https://forum.kaspersky.com/topic/us-government-ban-on-private-use-of-kaspersky-anti-virus-49211/

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Go to solution Solved by MedvedevUnited, June 22

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Lanulos

Posted November 10

On 11/7/2024 at 8:51 PM, PapaGatorAL said:

I just tried to update K-Premium database, no joy.

I am unfamiliar with that but does that have Kaspersky VPN? If so, turn that on. That's what I did. It went to a server in Netherlands, not US as before. After updating using that, the program was able to update automatically without the VPN on.