It's not a joke at all. I also wrote in the past about so -called solutions antivirus For Windows, which instead of protecting users, do nothing but spy on their online and offline activity, and the information obtained to be used for commercial purposes.
No later 2019, the company Kaspersky He acknowledged that he was injecting a unique identifier in the web user's web browser to spy on their online activity. This happens for the version Kaspersky Free Antivirus. Of course what is offered with the title “free”, it is never so. Behind each “free” It is injected with a code that will collect information about users and be used for commercial purposes by the developer. If you want, it is something similar to free games, in which you are invaded by ads. The major difference is that you know well what are the consequences when installing a free game, while in the case of an antivirus you never know what information is collected from you.
By 2014, Avast assure users to protect them against virus, Malware applications, spywareand Adware. That while they themselves, through Avast antivirus and through Chrome extensions and Mozilla they invaded users with Adware advertising, using data extracted from their navigation history and cookies.
Probably for a company producing software antivirus It is the simplest to spy on users. An antivirus has access to all the files of the operating system, personal files, and through the extensions of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, can easily follow the user -accessed web pages. So did and avast through the option “SafePrice“. Offered users advertisements in browser with Amazon products or other affiliated online stores. Of course, all this time Avast ensures “online security” of users.
Following the multiple notifications, it was a period when Google and Mozilla eliminated AVAST extensions, until the company has revised and gave up these practices.
Everything was “safe” with avast up to January 2020, when a report of a Common investigations made by PCMAG and Motherboard, showed that Avast is storing User browsing history and sells it to third parties for commercial purposes. After all, they have to make money from something, when they offer a “antivirus free”.
On January 30, 2020, Avast sent a statement announcing that he had ceased the contract with the Jumpshot subsidiary, the one who would have sold the users' navigation history to third parties. They are clean, they did not know about this practice, and now they gave themselves with disinfectant (or antivirus ..) on the hands, after ceasing the contract with Jumpshot. In fact, the web page of Jumpshot also suffered. “Jumpshot has ceased operations. Thank you.“
How did Avast free antivirus work?
All users who installed this antivirus had Online activity carefully monitored. Each click on a web page, browsing history and time spent on a page was stored under a unique ID of each user. It is true that the IP address or e-mail address were not stored, but based on this ID, Avast could do an analysis about the user. The data collected were manipulated by a subsidiary, called Jumpshot, which later was selling data collected from users Avast.
The culmination is that avast users were urged to urgently uninstall spyware and adware detected by antivirus, while even their software was doing the same. Strange approach.
In conclusion, before installing an antivirus, you must analyze the offers with low and free prices. In order for an antivirus to be able to protect your computer, it assumes that it will take on a fairly large rank of privileges at system level and personal files.
What is the safest antivirus for Windows?
The best antivirus for Windows 10 is the user. Avoid downloading applications “hack”, to access torrents and click on all ads and “Warning messages” Which I tell you on a large and colorful font, as once installed x software on your PC it will be dismissed and will be transformed into a rocket.
As a security measure, is the Windows 10 operating system updated up to date and Microsoft Security Essentials (Windows Defender) activated. It is an antivirus that does its job quite well and does not require installation. Microsoft integrated it directly into Windows 10.
Another reliable antivirus, is Malwarebytes. It scans and identifies very well the malicious programs in the Windows PCs. In addition, Malwarebytes is also available for Android, Mac.
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