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

[ClintonCM]

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

[Naedmi]

Postat inițial de Legalize Mary Jane:

So i take it no antivirus is good?

You could be better off practicing safe internet usage, not opening untrusted links, always keeping adblocker up to date, having popup blocker on at all times and scanning sites/files you think aren't safe before opening or using them.

There's many free virus scanning browser services. One even crosschecks with every known antivirus software.

But if you've got children or elderly using the computer or device. I would recommend always keeping a virus protection on it, mostly a paid service. Free is flawed and they all collect something off of you for the loss of giving their service out for free.

[Plaid]

Postat inițial de Legalize Mary Jane:

So i take it no antivirus is good?

I haven't used one for the past 15 years and haven't been infected with anything.
I occasionally download some of the freebies to do scans if I notice something fishy going on with my performance or services and nothing has ever come up, lol.

Now, some of my data has been leaked due to breaches on other websites...

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

Postat inițial de Manic Jorge 🤭:

Who uses virus protection anyways windows has decent one

LOL Windows spys on you too, windows 10 specifically. It is one of the main reasons so many people are refusing to leave windows 7, as windows 7 still gives you control over what updates to install if any at all.

Windows 7 is the last of the big "User Friendly" operating systems.

[ClintonCM]

Postat inițial de Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

Postat inițial de Manic Jorge 🤭:

Who uses virus protection anyways windows has decent one

LOL Windows spys on you too, windows 10 specifically. It is one of the main reasons so many people are refusing to leave windows 7, as windows 7 still gives you control over what updates to install if any at all.

Windows 7 is the last of the big "User Friendly" operating systems.

Well these days everything spies on you.

[Ⓥenom Ⓢnake 🐍]

I don't use those.

[Electric Cupcake]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/avast-kills-off-jumpshot-the-subsidiary-that-sold-all-your-web-data/

"We're sorry we got caught."

[secuda]

Postat inițial de Hugsie Muffinball:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/avast-kills-off-jumpshot-the-subsidiary-that-sold-all-your-web-data/

"We're sorry we got caught."

"We are sorry for hurting your feelings."
They dont care at all.

[Naedmi]

Postat inițial de Hugsie Muffinball:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/avast-kills-off-jumpshot-the-subsidiary-that-sold-all-your-web-data/

"We're sorry we got caught."

This is the standard response from any company that does something which angers the majority of it's customers.

[GuRu Asaki]

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



Windows Defender, is all you need anymore...

If you have Windows 10, you may want Pro Edition...

It comes with Application Guard for Windows Defender,
& it works better then any Anti-Virus out there...


So far that I know of, however, with Edge going Chromium,
I don't know what this means for Application Guard...


Application Guard traps Viruses into a Virtual Environment, when you close it,
all viruses are gone instantly... & they never touch your System...

When you got something like that, what do you need a 3rd Party
Anti-Virus for?

Application Guard is part of Pro Edition, I dunno if it's on
Regular Windows 10 though... Because of Changes...

You can argue that Chromium is better then Edge, because it's open source,
but Open Source, or not, it's still run by Google, & I want to stay away from
Google as much as possible...

[Electric Cupcake]

Pure Chromium is perfectly serviceable, but with the Edge integration, it isn't any more trustworthy than the Chrome spyware.
https://chromium.woolyss.com/