Leaked documents show how popular antivirus Avast & AVG harvests internet browsing data and sells it for millions of dollars.

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For persons who use those products.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3516502/report-avast-and-avg-collect-and-sell-your-personal-info-via-their-free-antivirus-programs.html

https://boingboing.net/2020/01/27/avast-sold-user-data-through.html

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Messaggio originale di davidb11:

THis is why I am thankful I have not updated CCleaner in a long time.

Yep owned since 2017 by Avast.

[chiefputsilao✖️ping]

avast and avg are owned by the same parent company: avast

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Messaggio originale di chiefputsilao✖️ping:

avast and avg are owned by the same parent company: avast

Yep.

[Electric Cupcake]

Doesn't surprise me. I used Avast for years, but it started going too far with popup ads and asking to install literal spyware (Chrome)

Malwarebytes and Windows Defender are good enough on their own. Though if you're going to buy commercial security software, Kaspersky has been top-rated for decades, and you get the added bonus of pissing off the Feds by using it.

[I deleted all my games]

Use Linux.

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Messaggio originale di davidb11:

THis is why I am thankful I have not updated CCleaner in a long time.

That is why i use revo.

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Messaggio originale di Legalize Mary Jane:

Messaggio originale di davidb11:

THis is why I am thankful I have not updated CCleaner in a long time.

That is why i use revo.

And Bleachbit. And sometimes Eusing Cleaner for registry.

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Messaggio originale di Hugsie Muffinball:

Messaggio originale di Legalize Mary Jane:

That is why i use revo.

And Bleachbit. And sometimes Eusing Cleaner for registry.

Yea eusing is a great reg cleaner and free. Never used bleachbit i use file shredder from http://www.fileshredder.org/ . It's a great little file shredder that has up to the guttman standard of 35 passes. Even wipes free disk space. Just don't use wipe free space on an SSD.

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Messaggio originale di Miss Ann Thrope:

Messaggio originale di Hugsie Muffinball:

And Bleachbit. And sometimes Eusing Cleaner for registry.

I didn't know people still bothered cleaning their registry.

There is no benefit from doing so on modern operating systems.

Yea sometimes the uninstaller for a program don't play nice and don't clean up fully after themselves.

[Tiberius]

Not surprising at all. Steam is also prolly doing it right now while yall not paying attention

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Messaggio originale di Miss Ann Thrope:

Messaggio originale di Legalize Mary Jane:

Yea sometimes the uninstaller for a program don't play nice and don't clean up fully after themselves.

True. I just leave those obsolete registry entries. I reinstall Windows once a year, anyway.

Yea they usually don't cause problems but sometimes they do. Rarely but it happens.

[Electric Cupcake]

Orphaned registry bits is one of the main challenges to getting Final Fantasy 7 Remako running smoothly. The converter script will stall if there's any compatibility settings in use, and you have to set the run in 640x480 compatibility mode for the .exe for 7th Heaven to be able to launch it.

[Electric Cupcake]

Messaggio originale di Legalize Mary Jane:

Messaggio originale di Hugsie Muffinball:

And Bleachbit. And sometimes Eusing Cleaner for registry.

Yea eusing is a great reg cleaner and free. Never used bleachbit i use file shredder from http://www.fileshredder.org/ . It's a great little file shredder that has up to the guttman standard of 35 passes. Even wipes free disk space. Just don't use wipe free space on an SSD.

Bleachbit isn't a file shredder, but don't tell the pigs in congress and the White House that.

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Messaggio originale di Hugsie Muffinball:

Messaggio originale di Legalize Mary Jane:

Yea eusing is a great reg cleaner and free. Never used bleachbit i use file shredder from http://www.fileshredder.org/ . It's a great little file shredder that has up to the guttman standard of 35 passes. Even wipes free disk space. Just don't use wipe free space on an SSD.

Bleachbit isn't a file shredder, but don't tell the pigs in congress and the White House that.

Yea i seen that when i looked it up. Sounded like one though.

[dallas]

Many thanks for info