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Kaspersky no longer on Google Play Store anywhere following US ban
Kaspersky said it’s working to resolve the ban.
The decision was “based on overinterpretation of the U.S. restrictions,” Kaspersky writes, and insists that the restrictions “don’t prohibit the sales and distribution of Kaspersky’s products and services outside the United States.” Apps previously installed from Google Play “will continue to work normally,” the company added, but it won’t get updates and can’t be reinstalled. Google confirmed the removal in a statement to BleepingComputer last week, writing that it did so in response to “a variety of restrictions on Kaspersky” by the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security. In response, Kaspersky uprooted its US operations the next month and, without user permission, later replaced itself on computers in the US with alternative antivirus software from UltraAV.
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