Kaspersky no longer on Google Play Store anywhere following US ban

Citing US restrictions, Google removed Kaspersky Lab’s antivirus bundle from the Play Store and terminated its developer relationship successful the days starring up to the restrictions’ September 29th deadline, according to a Kaspersky blog post yesterday.

The determination was “based connected overinterpretation of the U.S. restrictions,” Kaspersky writes, and insists that the restrictions “don’t prohibit the income and organisation of Kaspersky’s products and services extracurricular the United States.” Apps antecedently installed from Google Play “will proceed to enactment normally,” the institution added, but it won’t get updates and can’t beryllium reinstalled.

On September 27th, Kaspersky forum users started reporting that they could nary longer find the app connected Google Play. A Kaspersky worker replied 2 days later, saying that “downloads and updates of Kaspersky products are temporarily unavailable connected the Google Play store.”

Google confirmed the removal successful a statement to BleepingComputer past week, penning that it did truthful successful effect to “a assortment of restrictions connected Kaspersky” by the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security.

Google did not instantly respond to The Verge’s petition for comment.

The US sanctioned Kaspersky backmost in June. In response, Kaspersky uprooted its US operations the adjacent period and, without idiosyncratic permission, aboriginal replaced itself connected computers successful the US with alternate antivirus bundle from UltraAV.