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FTC bans antivirus giant Avast from selling its users' browsing data to advertisers
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If there's anyone out there still using Windows or who otherwise needs an antivirus, just use ClamAV. It's free and open-source, does a pretty good job of finding viruses, can be run as a daemon, and is extensible.
Want a different index? Fangfrisch. Want a GUI? ClamTk. Using Windows? ClamWin.
I honestly find it so strange that it took me around eight years to discover that this was a thing. I was forced to use McAfee, Norton, Kaspersky, BitDefender, and all of the worst AV software on the market before I eventually switched to Linux.
Kaspersky is the worst?
Ah, now Kaspersky itself isn't a bad AV. However, given how much data AV software has the capacity to collect and where Kaspersky is based, I don't trust it. In that scenario, I may as well switch to Yandex and start using Mail•ru instead of Proton.
Yandex left Russia too now lol
And the holding company is Dutch
Whoa, really‽
"American or Russian email provider?"
"Swiss."
German is also good, but I personally feel that Proton provides a better experience than Tutanota or Posteo.
I am also weary of the data that they can collect especially after logging in but there are versions of the app and licenses where you can mitigate this by turning off certain data collection and not logging in.
As far as the Russian thing is concerned, I don't have much to provide other than what I read. Some of that is they have already moved the processing and storage of foreign data to Switzerland.