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| Thread ID: 137186 | 2014-06-03 05:43:00 | Is Your Antivirus Tracking You? | Agent_24 (57) | Press F1 |
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| 1376385 | 2014-06-03 05:43:00 | www.makeuseof.com Your antivirus software is watching you. A recent study shows that popular antivirus applications like Avast assign your computer a unique identifier and send a list of all web addresses you visit to the manufacturer. If the antivirus finds a suspicious document, it will send the document to the antivirus company. Yes, your antivirus company might have a list of web pages you’ve visited along with your sensitive personal documents! |
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| 1376386 | 2014-06-03 06:05:00 | Cant do much about it if you're using Win8 | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1376387 | 2014-06-03 06:14:00 | We've had issues recently with our phone-companion web-app, and a customer using kaspersky antivirus, it was sending everything to kaspersky who were then re-connecting several minutes later to scan the website, multiple times. Long story short, everything every user did was being sent to kaspersky, and they had absolutely no idea... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1376388 | 2014-06-03 10:35:00 | Probably going via the NSA?????:D Who do you trust? Seems like we just have to abandon all ideas of privacy. |
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| 1376389 | 2014-06-03 10:40:00 | Anything sent through Skype probably goes to the NSA anyway, Kaspersky or not. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
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