Leaked documents expose Avast antivirus subsidiary selling web browsing data

Re:Leaked documents expose Avast antivirus subsidiary sellin... by clarry on Monday January 27, 2020 @01:28PM (#22162269)

You don't want to share that data?

I keep running into the same phenomenon everywhere; everyone thinks they know whether they've been infected or not. I suppose everyone is a malware expert, so there's no need to share the data with anyone. I'm quite out of the loop here.

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Re:Leaked documents expose Avast antivirus subsidiary sellin... by penagwin on Monday January 27, 2020 @02:47PM (#22163031)

> I keep running into the same phenomenon everywhere; everyone thinks they know whether they've been infected or not.

I mean I get what you're saying. My point is that most viruses aren't trying to be hidden, so they're rather obvious. Of course there's a chance they try to be sneaky, and you're right you have no way of knowing if those are present and well hidden.

But anti-virus only does so much, if you're past Windows Defender you're past a bunch of other tools too. A lot of anti-malware software is very generic, and relies on some rather dumb techniques.

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