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AVAST/AVG trustworthy again or not?
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<blockquote data-quote="Threadripper" data-source="post: 920610" data-attributes="member: 78223"><p>I understand your logic but there's another way of looking at that. Antivirus software uploading and analysing executables it's never seen before and (hopefully) having proper policies and procedures in place to delete them, should they be deemed harmless, is different to Avast using Jumpshot to collect every single website you visit to make an advertising profile.</p><p></p><p>Both of them are telemetry, but one is very different to the other. I'm fine with my antivirus software uploading and analysing executables it's never seen before (and deleting them if they're found harmless) but not so fine with it collecting files containing my personal information or collecting every website I visit. I'd assume other users feel a similar way regarding this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Threadripper, post: 920610, member: 78223"] I understand your logic but there's another way of looking at that. Antivirus software uploading and analysing executables it's never seen before and (hopefully) having proper policies and procedures in place to delete them, should they be deemed harmless, is different to Avast using Jumpshot to collect every single website you visit to make an advertising profile. Both of them are telemetry, but one is very different to the other. I'm fine with my antivirus software uploading and analysing executables it's never seen before (and deleting them if they're found harmless) but not so fine with it collecting files containing my personal information or collecting every website I visit. I'd assume other users feel a similar way regarding this. [/QUOTE]
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