If Kaspersky bothers you, so must its rivals

VENGEFUL DECISION?: China has excluded US-based Symantec Corp and Russia's Kaspersky Lab from a list of approved antivirus software vendors, according to a Chinese media report suggesting Beijing is expanding efforts to limit use of foreign technology. — Reuters

In all the recent bombshell reports about the Kaspersky antivirus software, it's easy to focus on the Russian threat and miss the general context: Every government that employs hackers tries to weaponise antivirus software. 

Government departments certainly need to consider that in choosing their own software; whether that's something the average computer user should worry about is a different matter.