The following year, the CIH virus (AKA the Chernobyl virus) created a boon for Kaspersky's anti-virus products, which Kaspersky said was the only software at the time that could cleanse the virus.
Natalya, who pushed Eugene to start the company, was the CEO, while Eugene was the head of research. Kaspersky Lab was founded three years later by Kaspersky, his wife and Kaspersky's friend. This led to more business for Kaspersky from European and American companies. In 1994, Hamburg University in Germany gave Kaspersky's software first place in a competitive analysis of antivirus software.
Kaspersky's then-future wife Natalya Kaspersky became his coworker at KAMI. It earned about $100 per month, mostly from companies in Ukraine and Russia. At first the software was purchased by about ten clients per month. There, he and his colleagues improved the software and released it as a product called Antiviral Toolkit Pro in 1992. In 1991, Kaspersky was granted an early release from his military service and left the defense ministry to take a job at the Information Technology Center of a private company KAMI, in order to work on his antivirus product full-time. Early on Kaspersky's anti-virus software had just 40 virus definitions and was distributed mostly to friends. Afterwards he continually found new viruses and developed software to remove them, as a hobby. He studied how the virus worked and developed a program to remove it. He met his first wife Natalya Kaspersky at Severskoye, a KGB vacation resort, in 1987.Įugene Kaspersky's interest in IT security began in 1989, when his PC was infected by the Cascade virus, while working for the Ministry of Defense. After graduating college, Kaspersky served the Russian military as a software engineer. (At the time, the most prestigious schools in Russia for mathematicians were KGB sponsored.) He graduated in 1987 with a degree in mathematical engineering and computer technology. He was also a member of the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.Īt the age of 16, Kaspersky entered a five-year program with the Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science, which was sponsored by the Russian military and KGB. Kolmogorov boarding school, which is run by Moscow University and specializes in math. When he was fourteen, Eugene began attending A.N. He spent his free time reading math books and won second place in a math competition at age 14. As a child he developed an early interest in math and technology.
His father was an engineer and his mother a historical archivist.
He grew up near Moscow, where he moved at age nine. Eugene Kaspersky was born on 4 October 1965 in Novorossiysk, Russia.
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