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<blockquote data-quote="Marko :)" data-source="post: 1117135" data-attributes="member: 39702">The most private antivirus software is... no antivirus software. One of their purposes is data collection about which they&#039;ll gladly tell you how it&#039;s only done to protect you as a consumer. I&#039;d have nothing about URLs, files being collected if they were hashed and encrypted, but the fact is most of the times they aren&#039;t. This is why I use Defender and only rely on standard virus definitions with cloud, SmartScreen completely disabled. I don&#039;t recommend anyone without experience doing this though.Yeah... in securing the PC. However, when we look at privacy, it&#039;s by far the most privacy invasive antivirus software for Windows.This...I love how antivirus companies collect pretty much everything, build profiles on us, all in the name of security. But when they get hacked and data leaks they are like &quot;sorry&quot;. I mean, like... weren&#039;t you the one that is supposed to protect me?I&#039;m still at opinion that there&#039;s no security without privacy. Hacker can&#039;t get anything if there&#039;s no data.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marko :), post: 1117135, member: 39702"] The most private antivirus software is... no antivirus software. One of their purposes is data collection about which they'll gladly tell you how it's only done to protect you as a consumer. I'd have nothing about URLs, files being collected if they were hashed and encrypted, but the fact is most of the times they aren't. This is why I use Defender and only rely on standard virus definitions with cloud, SmartScreen completely disabled. I don't recommend anyone without experience doing this though. Yeah... in securing the PC. However, when we look at privacy, it's by far the most privacy invasive antivirus software for Windows. This... I love how antivirus companies collect pretty much everything, build profiles on us, all in the name of security. But when they get hacked and data leaks they are like "sorry". I mean, like... weren't you the one that is supposed to protect me? I'm still at opinion that there's no security without privacy. Hacker can't get anything if there's no data. [/QUOTE]

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