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<blockquote data-quote="ScandinavianFish" data-source="post: 1043480" data-attributes="member: 93786"><p>All antiviruses require invasive data collection, though from what ive seen it's mostly to make sense of the threat telemetry they receive from their users. For example, IP addresses can be used to see if what regions of the world are targeted by the threat. MAC addresses can be used to see what type of device a file is detected on. File location, web traffic and other file and network behaviors can be used to understand the attack chain of a threat, and so on. Some of the information, such as names and addresses, are used to register the product, create relevant account's, send emails, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ScandinavianFish, post: 1043480, member: 93786"] All antiviruses require invasive data collection, though from what ive seen it's mostly to make sense of the threat telemetry they receive from their users. For example, IP addresses can be used to see if what regions of the world are targeted by the threat. MAC addresses can be used to see what type of device a file is detected on. File location, web traffic and other file and network behaviors can be used to understand the attack chain of a threat, and so on. Some of the information, such as names and addresses, are used to register the product, create relevant account's, send emails, etc. [/QUOTE]
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