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<blockquote data-quote="Freddy Trot" data-source="post: 939153" data-attributes="member: 91452">Hello - I see the conversation at <a href="https://malwaretips.com/threads/nortonlifelock-to-acquire-avira.105559/page-2" target="_blank">Updates - NortonLifeLock to Acquire Avira</a> , notably the comment I&#039;m a little late getting this news, I found this week that Avira installed a new even worse interface with -no- configuration controls to speak of that I could find.&nbsp; This reeks of the usual US strategy of acquire, incorporate technology, terminate source company.Further, it raises the above concern of collusion with/cooptation by/function compromise on behalf of the western intelligence community (ignoring unknowns of the relationship of the BND with anglo agencies, etc. etc.). Intrusionware deliberately not detected, etc. The alternative, of products compromised by the Russian intelligence community, is equally unattractive.&nbsp; So: are there products which are closer to implementing Avira&#039;s original posture than others ?&nbsp; And which are not engaged in partnerships etc., e.g. with Avira, that make them vulnerable to cooptation and threaten that posture ?&nbsp; A map of the partnerships on SDK&#039;s, signatures, engines etc. would be greatly appreciated BTW, I&#039;ve started reading/digging but it&#039;s a slog.Thanks for your thoughts.&nbsp; Disclaim, I mean no offense to any nationality, I just find that the attitude which is heard too often in the US &quot;if you have nothing to hide, why do you care about privacy?&quot; is naive, rather than my viewpoint being so. As to product features, I don&#039;t want a &quot;security suite&quot;, notably not a VPN, just core antivirus/anti-malware function. That no one has screwed with. Via state sanction or not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Freddy Trot, post: 939153, member: 91452"] Hello - I see the conversation at [URL="https://malwaretips.com/threads/nortonlifelock-to-acquire-avira.105559/page-2"]Updates - NortonLifeLock to Acquire Avira[/URL] , notably the comment I'm a little late getting this news, I found this week that Avira installed a new even worse interface with -no- configuration controls to speak of that I could find. This reeks of the usual US strategy of acquire, incorporate technology, terminate source company. Further, it raises the above concern of collusion with/cooptation by/function compromise on behalf of the western intelligence community (ignoring unknowns of the relationship of the BND with anglo agencies, etc. etc.). Intrusionware deliberately not detected, etc. The alternative, of products compromised by the Russian intelligence community, is equally unattractive. So: are there products which are closer to implementing Avira's original posture than others ? And which are not engaged in partnerships etc., e.g. with Avira, that make them vulnerable to cooptation and threaten that posture ? A map of the partnerships on SDK's, signatures, engines etc. would be greatly appreciated BTW, I've started reading/digging but it's a slog. Thanks for your thoughts. Disclaim, I mean no offense to any nationality, I just find that the attitude which is heard too often in the US "if you have nothing to hide, why do you care about privacy?" is naive, rather than my viewpoint being so. As to product features, I don't want a "security suite", notably not a VPN, just core antivirus/anti-malware function. That no one has screwed with. Via state sanction or not. [/QUOTE]

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