Facebook says removed Kaspersky Lab from list of anti-virus choices last year

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O> last year removed Moscow-based from its list of anti-virus offerings made to users who access the from a computer that may be infected with malicious code, the company told in responses to questions from lawmakers made public on Thursday.

"In October 2017, we removed Kaspersky's anti-virus from the list of products that we make available to these users," wrote in a letter dated Jan. 8 in answers provided to the

(Reporting by Dustin Volz; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)

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First Published: Fri, January 26 2018. 04:34 IST