New Avast Version 21.1.2449 - CyberCapture off by default?
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Updated mine yesterday, I really, really used to dislike AVAST with a vengeance but following a test done McMcbrad I was intrigued, gave it & AVG a try & AVAST to me ticks all the boxes & is so light on both PC's it's on - I was a Kaspersky user bur prefer AVAST now, I got licences for a pittance 
CyberCapture is the Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence cloud engine of AVAST!
Could other AVAST user check whether it is turned off by default now?
Turned on by default on my PC.
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Default on in my PC too.
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This version seems to be very light, it is comparable to ESET in my machine, cant even tell that is running now.
The free edition seems to be more than enough, it doesnt seem to lack any core protection compared to the paid version, anyway so far so good.
The free edition seems to be more than enough, it doesnt seem to lack any core protection compared to the paid version, anyway so far so good.
Greetings all.... I uninstalled it from an older laptop Saturday, with Revo, let the built in uninstaller run, very very slow. When all was finished, a clean uninstall. Good job Avast!
P.S. I agree, was extremely lite on resources! Quite impressed with Avast in the past couple of versions
It's quite a hype about Avast's new version. I also haven't used it for quite a while now. Currently on ESET AV. How are things with adds and telemetry in the new free version, could anyone share his thoughts?
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Out of curiosity, have you checked the traffic to verify that?
you think you have turned it off, but I can prove that it is still calling home. Following is my DNS log from NextDNS with Energized Ultimate blocking them like crazy.
BTW, I have whitelisted su.ff.avast.com as it turns out to be related to Streaming updates.
Unless you see what data is being sent that isn’t entirely proof, it could be saying “nothing to report” for all we know. It also doesn’t support that they aren’t collecting data either.
IDP is overly aggressive to the unknown files I think. I have seen several generic.IDP detections are made on safe files. On my computer it happened with Serpent browser(unofficial Basilisk fork) and Goanna based K-Meleon browser(unofficial fork as well). On other computers it happened with a Zoom based webinar client (made by gov) and Nvidia Web Helper service. It literally detects everything lmao.
Best thing to do. I'm actually right now gonna report this issue on the forum.
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The best part of the "Jumpshot" scandal is that we now know that Avast does indeed respect the privacy settings according to what the user has decided in the software, as well as doing everything possible to avoid situations not covered by the EULA and the privacy policy.
The irony of all this is that Avast products are probably the ones that will most respect the user's privacy, after all the company's future depends on it (publicly traded), while we don't know how most antiviruses actually deal with these issues.
The irony of all this is that Avast products are probably the ones that will most respect the user's privacy, after all the company's future depends on it (publicly traded), while we don't know how most antiviruses actually deal with these issues.
I tend to agree. It seems kind of crazy how people have decided certain products are more privacy friendly when the reality is we don’t know. The only company that has been vocal and attempted to be transparent is Emsisoft. Otherwise, it’s all guess work and Avast/AVG is under a microscope, and though they didn’t make it obvious they did quietly disclose what they were doing. I would put money in other companies doing this without anything being disclosed.
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