Is Your Antivirus Tracking You? You’d Be Surprised At What It Sends

[KaptainBug]

Your antivirus software is watching you. A recent study shows that popular antivirus applications like Avast assign your computer a unique identifier and send a list of all web addresses you visit to the manufacturer. If the antivirus finds a suspicious document, it will send the document to the antivirus company. Yes, your antivirus company might have a list of web pages you’ve visited along with your sensitive personal documents!

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[Oxygen]

I could care less what it sends....

 

[yigido]

There’s no one free antivirus product that stands out from all the others in offering the best privacy features.

There is no "free" and "private" into the internet. They consume us. I do not care so much recently because I am using their internet and executable files are known files in my PC. Document files are my lessons. Photos are already in their hand. (via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) They also know my eating & food habits with this way.
If we want privacy, we must be offline.

 

[Ink]

Comodo permits the operation of a retargeting consumer marketing program.
https://www.comodo.com/repository/privacy-policy.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_retargeting

This is not a personal attack against Comodo.

 

[Nico@FMA]

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Comodo permits the operation of a retargeting consumer marketing program.
https://www.comodo.com/repository/privacy-policy.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_retargeting

This is not a personal attack against Comodo.

Well no offense but well its Comodo you know lol.
However this points back to what i said in one of my topic's about free AV there is no such thing as free.
That being said its not a secret that AV vendors collect massive amounts of data specially the cloud services as each file is being sended back and forth between the clients and the cloud. So its only natural that they have such data on file.
Keep in mind your AV scans every single file on your PC so it also scans the contend of it, so common sense already knows that your habits and data will be monitored.

 

[Deleted member 178]

i have to add , in case of MOST AV vendors, they don't collect your raw datas, if they did you will see huge uploads and will be easy to spot.

in fact , from what i know, each of your files is given a hash and this hash is uploaded to their cloud.

 

[Nikos751]

Avast seems to be one of the biggest trackers! Avira seems to be one of the less well known tracking companies.

 

[Tony Cole]

I use Kaspersky and wonder what data their KSN gathers?

 

[kaljukass]

Absolutely not, and for a long time already. Just do not use any kind spyware. And anything else they don't do.