In a statement to CNET, Kaspersky says that it partnered with UltraAV, a company owned by Pango Group, a holding company based in Burlington, Massachusetts, to keep US-based custo

Some US-based users of Kaspersky antivirus products have found their software replaced by product from by a low-profile entity named "UltraAV" – a change they didn't ask for, and which has delivered them untested and largely unknown software from a source with a limited track record.

Some US Kaspersky security users got a big surprise when their protection was suddenly replaced by UltraAV due to a government ban. But Kaspersky’s demise has been looming for years.

Earlier this week, some U.S. customers of Kaspersky’s antivirus were surprised to find out that the Russian-made software disappeared from their computers and had been replaced by a new antivirus called UltraAV,

Kaspersky antivirus software automatically deletes itself from U.S. users' computers and installs UltraAV without warning.

Last week, users of Kaspersky anti-virus software found that the software had been uninstalled from their computers and that UltraAV's anti-virus had been installed in its place. The users had not consented to or initiated any of it.