All the mainstream endpoint protection software does this, so if you're going to run it at all --- don't --- you're going to have to pick which company you trust not to do what Kaspersky apparently did.
This makes me curious. How many companies in the Fortune 500 are going without AV software on their Windows PCs? AV software surely is crappy, but it still seems to be standard within a big majority of the large corporations.
Not just that, but Microsoft has close ties to the US government!