Kaspersky security founder threatened to ‘rub out’ AVG: Report

In 2009, Eugene Kaspersky, co-founder of one of the world's top security companies, told some of his lieutenants to attack rival antivirus software maker AVG Technologies NV by "rubbing them out in the outhouse," one of several previously undisclosed emails shows Reuters reported.

Kaspersky was using the phrase from Vladimir Putin's famous threat a decade ago to pursue Chechen rebels wherever they were: "If we catch them in the toilet, then we will rub them out in the outhouse."

According to former employees, the reprisal Kaspersky was pushing for was to trick AVG's antivirus software into producing false positives - that is, misclassifying clean computer files as infected.