>I'd certainly reconsider my Kaspersky license if I had one.

Well, giving ring 0 access to security software made by a company that is very near to a "not so friendly" state would worry me more than the fact that they play dirty with competition.

This doesn't allege that they produced malware, only that they produced false positives for competitors. They didn't deploy any actual malware.

It sounds like they took advantage of the fact that most malware fingerprinting uses md5 to create collisions with known good files, then uploaded bad files with a matching signature to the places that aggregate bad md5s.

Again, all allegedly.

on the basis of a badly sourced article that offers no evidence, other than some rumors spread by anonymous ex employees? This is a company that has uncovered serious misbehaviour by government sponsored malware writers. Glad you don't run my security.