Revenues and reputation have taken a hit in the wake of the US Department of Homeland Security’s decision to prohibit use of its products and services by the feds, the company says.

Security vendor Kaspersky Lab has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in its lawsuit challenging the US government’s recent ban on the use of the company’s anti-malware products by federal agencies.

The ban has seriously hurt Kaspersky Lab’s reputation and revenues and should be overturned expeditiously, the company argued in the motion filed Wednesday in US District Court for the District of Columbia.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) last September ordered the removal of Kaspersky Lab software and services from all federal information systems covered under the Federal Information Systems Management Act, and banned further use of all products from the company.

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