fredlaso Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 We warned you at the beginning of the year that many of your browser extensions are spying on you, tracking what you are visiting, and even inserting ads into pages. These aren’t just no-name developers either: even Avast, one of the most trusted antivirus vendors was in on the game.Before we go even one step further, it’s important to note that they recently disabled the spying “shopping” feature in their browser extension. So if you are running the latest Chrome with extensions updated, you are fine. For now.So Avast has stopped integrating the spying extension, but this is about the principle: you should be able to trust your antivirus provider. Why are they adding a feature that spies on your browsing, inserts ads… and all without properly notifying you?And why, at the same time, are they claiming to stop spyware, even uninstalling other shopping extensions from other vendors, while they were doing the same thing they are supposed to stop?More here: http://www.howtogeek.com/199829/avast-antivirus-was-spying-on-you-with-adware-until-this-week/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knowledge-Spammer Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Avast Antivirus is poo i think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy700 Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Uninstalling Avast right now :ph34r: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roy W Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Been very happy with Avast until now so I hope that they have done away with this extension or else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidnightDistortions Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Avast website is going to have a very angry rant soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demoneye Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 its easy to use avira (free yes? ) than all the other avs which poor detection rating anyway .... ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabotaSe Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 AVAST=NSA project... :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norfdas Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 I uninstalled Avast immediately after they informed me that my integrity should be lost if I wanted to use their free anti virus.Think the information abut that was connected to some update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vjcobra Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Nothing is 100% safe these days :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stylemessiah Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Why do you think i NEVER install ANY browser extension, whether in Avast or any other program Did you really think it was ONLY there to flag whether a site was dangerous or not? Really? No, Really? You have only yourselves to blame.... Ive used Avast for eons Heres how to install it properly, for those simple folk who dont read pages during the install progress, and instead blindly click Next: When you get to the components screen where you can select which components to install, untick everything in the middle column... Easy Now, can we </whining> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudboy Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 I use Avira and it installs browser extensions also. Big deal. Just disable or uninstall them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul1947 Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 SHAME!! SHAME!! AVAST, I stopped using any antivirs a year or so ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjall Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 does anyone have a new link for benchmarking anti-virus software to know which one is the best in detection? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredlaso Posted October 25, 2014 Author Share Posted October 25, 2014 @mjall:http://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/2015-consumer-security-products-performance-benchmarks-passmark-software.368733/http://www.av-comparatives.org/detection-test/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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