Kaspersky Goes to Court for Harsh Words

An interesting story attracts the Chinese media's attention after Kaspersky filed a complaint against the local rival Rising and accused the company of no respect for the country's users. It all started a long time ago when Kaspersky flagged some of the Rising security tools as dangerous and advised users to uninstall them. Rising accused Kaspersky of inefficiency in the Chinese market that was already upset after Symantec harmed several computers by flagging Windows files as infected.

As a reply, Kaspersky said that Rising used this moment to increase its popularity but the Chinese rival announced that it might feel a lawsuit against the famous antivirus producer. Kaspersky moved a little bit faster and already filed its own complaint at a Tianjin court, accusing Rising for defamation and unfair competition, Virus Bulletin reports.

This is quite the first time when two security companies are accusing each other using harsh words but, if we think that they are fighting for the leader position in the Chinese market that can bring huge profits, it is quite obvious and explainable.

A few weeks ago, security company Symantec was involved in a serious issue that affected the firm's image not only in China but in the entire world. If you didn't know, Symantec's security solutions wrongly flagged some of the Windows elements as dangerous and, after it quarantined the files, the operating systems were harmed and inaccessible. After a short period of time, Symantec decided to offer freeware licenses to the affected users in order to repair the company's image.

"We are offering more than two weeks for the registration period which we believe is a reasonable period of time for customers to register," said Catriona Turner, a Symantec spokeswoman in Australia, according to PC World. "If there are legitimate reasons why a particular customer is unable to register by July 15, we will give consideration to extending the date for that customer."