Avast have new tools: Webcam Shield feature & Avast Driver Updater.

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End webcam spying – for good – with Webcam Shield and Avast Premier

Essentially, with Webcam Shield you have total control over what (and who!) uses your camera. This means you can now force any app to ask your permission before it can access your webcam.

Simply put, Webcam Shield promises to:

• Protect Privacy
• Give you total control over your webcam
• Help prevent blackmail

With webcams now embedded in so many devices, it’s never been more important to protect yourself and your family from prying eyes and those with unknown motives.

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Automatically fix and update over 127,000 drivers for peak PC performance

Less crashing

Faster browsing

Better graphics

Richer audio

Fewer device problems

Print, scan, import files. Play crystal clear videos and make crackle-free voice calls. Avast Driver Updater auto-scans and updates your drivers to reduce and prevent problems with:

Printers and scanners, Photo and video cameras, Headphones and speakers, Mouse and keyboards, Monitors and Wifi routers, and other external devices.

MORE : Avast Driver Updater & Scanner | For Peak PC Performance

 

[Marko :)]

Windows has webcam shield built-in. It works great!

 

[RoboMan]

Avast Driver Updater

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Give a man a software and he will be happy. Give a man coding skills and he'll do whatever it takes to make you think you need his crap to be happy.

 

[Transhumana]

I like the notion of Webcam Shield, but Driver Updater is ludicrous. I don't get the direction they're heading; jack-of-all-trades easily turns into master of none. Avast is a really good AV and in my opinion they should just stick to what they do best.

 

[kev216]

Yippee! Another gread sounding, good advertisable, but utterly useless new "feature". Focus on real protection Avast, not on misleading users giving them a feeling of having more protection now...

 

[L S]

Just updating - I did not say it was good or bad !

 

[HarborFront]

Just take a piece of tape and tape over your webcam. No worry of driver issue, no worry of corrupted driver, no worry of webcam driver being hacked

 

[L S]

Just take a piece of tape and tape over your webcam. No worry of driver issue, no worry of corrupted driver, no worry of webcam driver being hacked

Well ....... My webcam have a piece of tape for years now - (for real) - .......
....... but if I have corrupted driver or some issues - of course I will solve them in one way or another.

 

[novocaine]

Windows has webcam shield built-in. It works great!

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:X3: I've been worried about webcam but I never think about that 'shield', thanks bro!

 

[Marko :)]

:X3: I've been worried about webcam but I never think about that 'shield', thanks bro!

It would be even better if you can disable webcam in BIOS settings. Unfortunately, I don't have that option.

I tried uninstalling driver but Windows keeps installing it again.

 

[tim one]

Windows has webcam shield built-in. It works great!

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Thanks buddy, same here, never thought of this Windows option

 

[ifacedown]

An automatic Driver Updater seldom become a success. Many times, a system becomes unstable or unusable because of these kind of apps.

 

[Weebarra]

Webcam shield is nothing new really .... is it ? I think a lot of the other av's have been doing it for a while now.

 

[frogboy]

I just use the device manager to diable the web cam and microphone.

 

[Weebarra]

I just use the device manager to diable the web cam and microphone.

Me too, you must have advised me to do that @frogboy as i would never have found out how to do it on my own

 

[Deleted member 65228]

Webcam shield is nothing new really .... is it ? I think a lot of the other av's have been doing it for a while now.

You'd be surprised how lacking some popular security products really are when it comes to dynamic prevention of malicious operations. For webcam access specifically, I believe Qihoo and Emsisoft have support for dynamic protection, and now obviously Avast. I doubt there'd be more than 2 other security solutions with the feature which are widely used.

The safest option will be to do what @Marko :) and @frogboy do though, or to cover the web-cam with tape, instead of relying on security software for this though.

 

[Weebarra]

You'd be surprised how lacking some popular security products really are when it comes to dynamic prevention of malicious operations. For webcam access specifically, I believe Qihoo and Emsisoft have support for dynamic protection, and now obviously Avast. I doubt there'd be more than 2 other security solutions with the feature which are widely used.

The safest option will be to do what @Marko :) and @frogboy do though, or to cover the web-cam with tape, instead of relying on security software for this though.

I know Kaspersky has it (well in the Total Security version) and i believe Bitdefender has it too so that will probably be your 2 others, as always, my nose is bothering me so i will need to go look at some others, lol.

 

[ForgottenSeer 58943]

Avast Driver Updater

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Give a man a software and he will be happy. Give a man coding skills and he'll do whatever it takes to make you think you need his crap to be happy.

Maybe someday soon Avast will be able to do my dishes?

Pathetic. People want an AV... Not crapware.

 

[harlan4096]

Kaspersky has also that WebCam protection at least since 2 years ago, also against audio recording via system microphone...

 

[Deleted member 65228]

I know Kaspersky has it (well in the Total Security version) and i believe Bitdefender has it too so that will probably be your 2 others, as always, my nose is bothering me so i will need to go look at some others, lol.

Hahaha. I cannot even think of any other two others which have it off the top of my head, maybe that is it then? Let me know if you know of other products with it. I know Avira and Malwarebytes definitely don't have it.