Kaspersky sues Rising

Feuding AV firms to fight it out in court.

Kaspersky

‘s Chinese subsidiary has brought a court case against local rival

Rising

, after an escalating war of words between the two companies.

The row began in late May, when

Kaspersky

suffered a false positive, detecting a component of

Rising

‘s anti-spyware product as a trojan.

Rising

responded by claiming that

Kaspersky

had wrongly detected a wide range of items and showed no respect for Chinese users, already upset by the crippling


Symantec

false positive

the same month.

Kaspersky

‘s Beijing-based local subsidiary responded by claiming that the detection was caused by

Rising

including unencrypted signatures in its product, a practice widely regarded as unsafe, and suggesting that

Rising

was using the incident to gather publicity.

Rising

then announced plans to sue

Kaspersky

for defamation, and now

Kaspersky

has brought its own suit, alleging unfair competitive practices and defamation, which should be heard in a Tianjin court later this month.

Information on the row can be found at the Chinese Internet Security Response Team (CISRT) blog,

here

, and in a piece from the Chinese branch of Russian news agency

Interfax

,

here

.

Posted on 09 July 2007 by

Virus Bulletin