Remember Kaspersky Antivirus?
The US government shut them down, because they were evil Russians. 
What absolute bullshit.
I had Kaspersky Antivirus for 7 years and loved the product.
I never worried about Putin spying on my phone. The boredom alone would kill him.
It would be different if I worked at the Pentagon or a defense contractor.
I moved on to BitDefender for my Android phones. I had the impression they were a reorganized company that replaced Kaspersky. I happily signed up for BitDefender and have it on my family’s phones and a old Windows 10 laptop. (It won’t be renewed for the laptop )
A year later…
Out of nowhere, I received a auto renewal warning for $87.99 effective Feb 21.
UltraAV. Never heard of them. Certainly never installed their antivirus software.
It took three emails to get a cancellation.
That wasn’t anything official. Just email from support saying it was done.
I called my bank. They won’t preemptively block a charge.
Should I login to their site and confirm any subscription was cancel? They claim there’s an account there registered to my emai. I would have to use password recovery. Set a password to something temporary.
I’m aware of phising. I haven’t supplied any information. NOTHING. They already had my email address.
How did you confirm a connection between Kaspersky and this Ultra outfit?
Random invoice scams are a thing, after all.
I haven’t.
I had to respond or risk a $90 credit card charge
I didn’t give any information. No address, certainly no CC information or banking.
Nothing.
They could have my cc if they inherited Kaspersky business files.
Googling, UltraAV is the product being pushed to former Kaspersky customers.
Common scam. My spam filter catches these all the time.
I don’t want to legitimize any connection by logging into their web site.
I’ve never, ever used their software.
I’ll watch my bank charges closely and immediately call my bank’s fraud department if a 87.99 charge is made.
It posses me off the bank won’t preemptively block this company.
One can visit a website without logging in.
There’s about a 99% chance this is just an invoice scam, nothing to do with any Kaspersky AV you ever had installed. Maybe Kaspersky got hacked and someone got their email list?
Ultra Av has a web site.
It raises a very interesting question.
Can a new company inherit a defunct companies Internet Subscriptions?
Ultra AV did proved 2 weeks warning before charging for a renewal.
What legal rights do they have in claiming Kerpersky former cutomers?
I’ll let my Bank’s fraud department handle any charges from Ultra AV.
I have to check my account charges closely, every morning for awhile.
Did you give your credit card info to Kapersky all those years ago?
Yes. I renewed my subscription every year between 2014 or 15? and 2023.
I installed Kaspersky on my mom’s phone. She had a separate subscription.
I liked Kaspersky Antivirus. They were receiving top, number 1 ratings from PCMag, CNET, Toms Hardware and other sites back around 2015, 16. etc.
I use Bitdefender now on Android devices. Won the Editor’s Choice Award in 2025
At least UltraAv is a real antivirus company.
Hopefully my email to cancel any subscription worked.
The reviews aren’t good. It isn’t a anti virus suite that I’d consider purchasing.
Proof for the Bank that I did email Ultra Av. I also have the emails in my Sent box.
I’ll wait until this business issue goes away and then unsubscribe from their list.
Scammer buys email list(s), sends the same email/popup/warning to all on the list, and net a ton of “fish”.
They didn’t net anything from this fish.
I want to be clear UltraAv didn’t ask for any information. Mailing Address, my banks name, certainly no CC numbers.
I wouldn’t provide it if they asked.
Maybe, some fish will agree to sign-up for their Anti-virus service. I guess if even 10% sign up that’s a plus for this company.
Not me. I had already picked a new Anti virus solution immediately after the US government shut down Kaspersky.
The number of emails in my spam folder from real companies is probably 30-40%, including cable companies that I have never had, mainly because I have never once lived iin their service areas, including banks that I’ve never had an account at or done business with, etc., etc., etc.
Either it’s an invoice scam, in which case don’t do anything with it, even reply (as that confirms they have a used email address) or it’s legit, in which case, you’ve told them to not renew & you can go to your bank & get the charged reversed if it is for real. When you hover over the from email address does it look legit or more like a random set of letters & #s?
The address I was able to copy the address and paste into notepad. Looked at it
Then copy/pasted here.
I used the tic mark and xxx to break the link.
'Xxxx[noreply@]‘xxxx’('xxxxmailto:noreply@ultraantivirus.com)xxxcx
I realize it feels like a bit of a risk to connect to their support site, but if they “legitimately” inherited your contact and payment info from Kaspersky, you may want to look for a way to remove all of that.
But perhaps just canceling the pending auto payment by email might be enough. It depends on whether they regard the cancellation request as the final word, or “just for now.”
I guess it can’t hurt to do a password reset and double check the account.
Of course, I’ll set it to something I’d never normally use. Maybe Trumps birthday. 
will be part of a temporary password.
I’ll wait a few days. Then check.
Renewal was Feb 23.