Kaspersky Lab strongly denied that it had tricked competitors into categorizing clean files as malicious, so-called false positives. Both sources requested anonymity and said they were among a small group of people who knew about the operation. “Eugene considered this stealing,” said one of the former employees. Some of the attacks were ordered by Kaspersky Lab’s co-founder, Eugene Kaspersky, in part to retaliate against smaller rivals that he felt were aping his software instead of developing their own technology, they said.
They said the secret campaign targeted Microsoft Corp MSFT.O, AVG Technologies NV AVG.N, Avast Software and other rivals, fooling some of them into deleting or disabling important files on their customers' PCs.
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