AVG - going from Anti Virus software towards Spyware.
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As far as im concerned, Third party AVs are no diff to aromatherapy or fung shway
anticupidon
This is wrong.They want to trust them from now on ?
In the end,in a strange way it is understandable.They wanted to make more revenue,so they did it.
Nobody is forcing you to use their product,and you and only you decide agree with their EULA and installing their software.
NAMEk
Anonymous data collecting is BS. You can't do anything with it, it's waste of bandwidth, space, money. Those who pay for anonymous data are retarded. But when it comes to non-anonymous, location aware, or identity aware or both, you can actually steal from those people one way or another, you can stop people from succeeding. And while we aren't sure what kind of data they are collecting, we want to stop it. Even if it's anonymous, it wastes our bandwidth, computer resources. I guess most data collecting goes via non-encrypted channels, so someone (who has good iT knowledge) may even spy on you and use for his/her bad reasons. I'm boycotting all products with such behavior. Or if i don't have an option, i block it from using internet.
heffeque
Good luck with Microsoft's antivirus:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/avc_fdt_201503_en.pdf
Avira and Kaspersky catch 99.9% of malware.
Microsoft's antivirus catches 86.3% of malware.
So basically... it's very VERY probable that people using Microsoft's antivirus have malware and don't even know it.
Just so people are aware... Avira has a free version.
Noisiv
Stopped using 3rd party software when Avira became advertising garbage.
Before that I've been using AV software on and off.
So it seems that no one does the better job of dissuading potential customers than AV companies themselves.
Turns out that in my 15 year Internet history, the frequency of my PC getting infected by virus is constant, and independent of whether I'm using AV software or not.
On average I'll catch 1 infection/year regardless of AV.
OTOH I've never ever had any of my online accounts stolen, while everyone whom I know has had his WoW account stolen LOL
I always manage to spot virus pretty much instantly, and I always recover without having to reinstall OS.
The real question is which software/company does NOT collect your data.
Noisiv
LOL no!
99.9% is when they have virus in their database.
Here is the latest heuristics test with your Avira in bottom half 🙂
http://abload.de/img/avrz7z22.png
EspHack
best av is being the owner of your pc
riardon
This is why I stay with the MS one and never install a third party free AV. I have trust issues with those. If companies spy on me to make money for their free product which I partially understand and accept then at least I want the fewer doing it on me. MS is enough for now no need to have Avast/Avira/AVG and whoever else doing it too.
k37chup
Try malwarebytes + secureaplus combo 😉
Anarion
I use Norton. It's really light these days unlike Avast that I used to use before. I also use Malwarebytes as second opinion.
Kaarme
The weakest link is always the one between the keyboard and the chair. It doesn't matter what kind of an anti-virus the PC is running if the user is foolishly careless (no offence to your valuable customers).
I've been running F-Secure since forever. I was annoyed by it during the long ago single core and little memory days as it was a resource hog, but these days it's meaningless with multiple CPU cores and more memory than I need. It's also non-free software, so I assume they don't feel such an urge to sell my secrets to the highest bidder. At least not all of them.
zipper
Bitdefender has got good reviews lately. But I'm on F-Secure as I got it for about €10+ a year per machine (3 PC).
KissSh0t
You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
allesclar
I use Malwarebytes and common sense. No issues yet.
Turanis
All software company collects data,ALL!
In the name of national security or world security they collect all program data you have installed and even more.Dont forget about Steam,Origin,or other gaming software platform.
They are an Cartel,if you know what I mean. The citizens are the enemy of the world,not the corporations. 😉
Dont forget Kaspersky is a Russian company who spy everytime everywhere in the world.
gUNN1993
Seems to me like AV users/not users suffer from Dunning–Kruger effect pretty damn hard. Yes most tech competent people will be able to notice when they get some ****ty run of the mill malware that just spams them with adds, but the top tier stuff is far more insidious, usually that crap is targeted ofc and you're unlikely to be targeted because, lets face it, you're not really worth it.
But it begs the question, how many people who "don't have any problems" merely don't 'perceive' any problems, ofc top tier stuff wont get found by AV anyway so eh **** it, whatever makes you feel good.
heffeque
The percentages I put are including heuristics. That table is purely heuristics.
So even considering that Avira's heuristic algorithms aren't the best (and that Avira does have a higher false positive count than others), all in all, detection rates are very very good, specially taking into consideration that it's free (with the rare occurring pop-up asking you to buy the payed version).
No I didn't. Go to the PDF I linked and read the results. Inform yourself a bit before exposing your lack of knowledge.
Go to the results I posted above. MS's antivirus is technically the same as not having an antivirus at all.
If you think that common sense prevents 100% of virus infections... good luck with that.
And if you think that you can always spot a virus/troyan/etc even without antivirus... good luck with that too.
This.
Don't agree with that. It's like the "my child doesn't need to get his vaccination" mentality that is hurting modern society more and more.
RzrTrek
Does Avast collect browsing/search history and meta data?
cps1974
or just stay off dodgy pr0n sites
FerCam™
Well I stopped using antivirus 10 years ago since I saw them behave nearly like what they should defend us from, virus, and they are resource hogs. And since I saw in several systems, that I fix/fixed from customers, more than one virus cohabiting with antivirus and, only three in twenty AV's would detect those virus and in one case it had to be me to manually delete the infected files, to avoid a fresh SO install. And then we have also the false positives...
To know what you are doing and where you are going is the best AV.
