App Review Block Avast Antivirus Telemetry, Ads, Popups and Overseer without Blocking avastui.exe

[Terry Ganzi]

That is a year old article before they got rid of Jumpshot.

[/QUOTE] Miss site on my part sorry for any trouble or inconvenience to any member my bad.

 

[jackuars]

I don't get what you mean but I think I would do everything regardless of overlap to prevent telemetry as much as possible

About the second video about Overseer.exe, would it help if I blocked the process from connecting to internet using simplewall. Will that serve the purpose instead of deleting it, as some of them including Avast support team @Milosh here mentioned it also helps fixing Avast service when it isn't running.

 

[SomeRandomCat]

Kaspersky Cloud Free and/or WiseVector seem like a better choice than putting up with Avast, but I guess some people really like Avast.

 

[fabiobr]

Kaspersky Cloud Free and/or WiseVector seem like a better choice than putting up with Avast, but I guess some people really like Avast.

Kaspersky is great, but Avast is lighter and easy to use for a home basic user, especially with hardened mode turned on.

 

[Evjl's Rain]

Kaspersky Cloud Free and/or WiseVector seem like a better choice than putting up with Avast, but I guess some people really like Avast.

- Avast Hardened mode aggressive + blocking scripts (java, powershell, wscript,...): almost impenetrable for regular users. Relatively light (after tweaks) but more buggy and more annoying. I don't use it anymore
- Kaspersky free: best free AV but is still penetrable due to the lack of default-deny module like Avast above. It still has a problem with not respecting my setup (Choose Scan mode "On execution" but it still scans my exe files when I open a folder). Quite light but the mentioned problem is a deal-breaker for me
- Wisevector: the lightest of the 3. I rate it more or less equal to Kaspersky, no joke. Better against new malwares. Kaspersky has better exploit protection and more consistent against all malwares overall. Lack of default-deny like avast. I use Wisevector because of its great protection and its light-weight

 

[silversurfer]

Well, Kaspersky Security Cloud Free can be tweaked as almost the same light-weight as Avast, system impact shouldn't be noticeable on modern Hardware.
For sure it's worth to mention that Hardened Mode enabled causing sometimes blocks for new updated software until it will be whitelisted by Avast, that's a problem for the average home user as mostly those people are unable to handle notifications by AVs.

 

[SomeRandomCat]

Been so long since I used Avast that I didn't realize it now has a default-deny option. Sounds like they really stepped their game up.

 

[Evjl's Rain]

Been so long since I used Avast that I didn't realize it now has a default-deny option. Sounds like they really stepped their game up.

hardened mode aggressive is partially default-deny but it only covers limited number of extensions (.exe, .tmp or .dll if I recall correctly). For other extensions, it doesn't work -> still need to strenghen/block these extensions with other programs
Aggressive: only whitelisted executables (by avast's cloud) can run
Moderate: blocks all executables without digital signatures or they match certain criteria
this is great but there are many FPs for novices

 

[fabiobr]

hardened mode aggressive is partially default-deny but it only covers limited number of extensions (.exe, .tmp or .dll if I recall correctly). For other extensions, it doesn't work -> still need to strenghen/block these extensions with other programs
Aggressive: only whitelisted executables (by avast's cloud) can run
Moderate: blocks all executables without digital signatures or they match certain criteria
this is great but there are many FPs for novices

One doubt (off topic): Application control from Kaspersky can block which extensions?

About FPs: Pretty hard to happened, I suffered more with FPs when using Bitdefender (blocking Steam games and games updates) because of its aggressive heuristics than with Avast. Furthermore, Avast has a huge cloud database too if it's not the biggest and they're very fast at whitelisting/blacklisting things.

 

[harlan4096]

One doubt (off topic): Application control from Kaspersky can block which extensions?

All of these ones:

 

[SumTingWong]

I believe people will go another av than doing all of this ads blocking for an antivirus.

 

[Nagisa]

I believe people will go another av than doing all of this ads blocking for an antivirus.

Changing privacy settings is enough.

I haven't seen any ad popup yet. On the interface only the Avast's own promotion banner there is.

 

[Nagisa]

I remember 360 TS used to show ads for chinese mobile games every time you update databases.

It's one's own preference to not see any ad of course. But I find it fits the UI and doesn't annoy that much.