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Time to dump Avast...?
If you use Avast for your anti-viral protection, it may be time (or even too late) to get rid of it.
According to US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), from 2014 to 2020, Avast was tracking consumers’ browsing information and then selling it to more than 100 other companies through an affiliate called Jumpshot.
Avast has been deceptively failing to disclose they were tracking consumers and misrepresenting that consumers’ browsing information would be shared only in an aggregate and anonymous form when that wasn’t true.
Maybe the $16.5 Million fine will teach them a lesson, but that probably amounts to a few peanuts compared to all the money they made selling your privacy...
Read more here...
ky331
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February 25th, 2024 12:19
I switched away from Avast several years ago, when one of their many annual "upgrades" just moved around too many features/settings from where I was used to finding them. (For anyone who simply accepted all their defaults, without wanting to 'tweak' various settings, these upgrades weren't a problem.)
I went to using Panda on my systems, and kept it on one until recently, when I noticed that Panda hadn't been updating its signatures/definitions in quite a while. I don't know if it was a "fluke" impacting just my system, or whether this was a prevalent defect.
That resulted in Windows Defender activating itself as the (default) antivirus on my systems. In addition, I was running MalwareBytes in real time (by not registering it in the Security Center). And that's the status on my primary system today, running both Defender and Malwarebytes... they seem to work together nicely. But on my secondary (and much older) system, I've recently arranged for Malwarebytes to be the sole real-time anti-virus --- disabling Windows Defender --- due to the system's age and ever-more-noticeable slowdown.