pondus Posted October 23, 2023 ID:1596440 Share Posted October 23, 2023 (edited) The Czech security firm, Avast, is being sued in a mass claim lawsuit. Edited February 22 by pondus 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted October 23, 2023 Root Admin ID:1596458 Share Posted October 23, 2023 Wow, that's not good, especially if it can be proven in a court of law Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefox Posted October 23, 2023 ID:1596461 Share Posted October 23, 2023 Never did like Avast myself.... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porthos Posted October 23, 2023 ID:1596469 Share Posted October 23, 2023 20 minutes ago, Firefox said: Never did like Avast myself.... Even worse after AVG got them and Ccleaner and then Norton got them. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefox Posted October 24, 2023 ID:1596556 Share Posted October 24, 2023 That's for sure @Porthos Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David H. Lipman Posted October 24, 2023 ID:1596577 Share Posted October 24, 2023 Thank you @pondus Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukecad Posted October 24, 2023 ID:1596581 Share Posted October 24, 2023 The new umbrella company is called Gen Digital. (Shades of Jurassic Park InGen?). Although still operating as a seperate company one thing that we have noticed at CCleaner forum is that support, which used to reply by email to raised tickets in hours, has recently changed and it can now take a week or more after raising a ticket to get a reply from a person. (I'm aware that it's been like that with Malwarebytes support for much longer, it makes me wonder if it's something to do with the software being used by support, rather than just an insufficency of support staff numbers?) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porthos Posted October 24, 2023 ID:1596611 Share Posted October 24, 2023 2 hours ago, nukecad said: (I'm aware that it's been like that with Malwarebytes support for much longer, it makes me wonder if it's something to do with the software being used by support, rather than just an insufficency of support staff numbers?) If users would only use the support desk for license issues and come here for the rest it would not be overloaded. Also since support rejects support requests unless you have a paid version of Malwarebytes, that has helped response times. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siso503 Posted October 31, 2023 ID:1597627 Share Posted October 31, 2023 I would argue that they are lifting a lot more than just history. They can copy your appdata folder for you current installed browsers which includes your metadata and your passwords :( Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted October 31, 2023 Root Admin ID:1597666 Share Posted October 31, 2023 Not without special software to do it. The browser standards won't allow it. Exfiltrating that much data even with a full AV install would more than likely get them caught and they'd need an extremely large digital farm to house that much data which would cost probably more than they could make from selling data. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyperwolf122 Posted November 1, 2023 ID:1597842 Share Posted November 1, 2023 I used to use Avast for awhile before I knew much about AV’s but stopped once I started hearing allegations about this all and I’m so glad I stopped using Avast. I can definitely say I no longer care for Avast in the slightest especially after seeing the allegations were true. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pondus Posted December 4, 2023 Author ID:1603218 Share Posted December 4, 2023 maybe old news .... Avast hit with multimillion-euro fine for GDPR failure March 31, 2023 https://www.techradar.com/news/avast-hit-with-multimillion-euro-fine-for-gdpr-failure 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pondus Posted February 22 Author ID:1619112 Share Posted February 22 FTC to ban Avast from selling browsing data for advertising purposes https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ftc-to-ban-avast-from-selling-browsing-data-for-advertising-purposes/ 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewTricks Posted February 22 ID:1619133 Share Posted February 22 1 hour ago, pondus said: FTC to ban Avast from selling browsing data for advertising purposes I just learned a new word in this sentence. ""Moreover, the volume of data Avast released is staggering: the complaint alleges that by 2020 Jumpshot had amassed "more than eight petabytes of browsing information dating back to 2014." 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted February 22 Root Admin ID:1619141 Share Posted February 22 https://info.cobaltiron.com/blog/petabyte-how-much-information-could-it-actually-hold https://highscalability.com/how-big-is-a-petabyte-exabyte-zettabyte-or-a-yottabyte/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pondus Posted February 22 Author ID:1619147 Share Posted February 22 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintree16 Posted February 24 ID:1619517 Share Posted February 24 😬😣😩😫🤦♀️ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siso503 Posted February 28 ID:1620379 Share Posted February 28 On 10/31/2023 at 1:44 PM, AdvancedSetup said: Not without special software to do it. The browser standards won't allow it. Exfiltrating that much data even with a full AV install would more than likely get them caught and they'd need an extremely large digital farm to house that much data which would cost probably more than they could make from selling data. On 2/22/2024 at 1:36 PM, NewTricks said: I just learned a new word in this sentence. ""Moreover, the volume of data Avast released is staggering: the complaint alleges that by 2020 Jumpshot had amassed "more than eight petabytes of browsing information dating back to 2014." Just sayin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewTricks Posted February 28 ID:1620382 Share Posted February 28 5 minutes ago, Siso503 said: they'd need an extremely large digital farm to house that much data which would cost probably more than they could make from selling data. I'm reassured by this reasoning from Advanced Setup, particularly the last part of the sentence. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewTricks Posted February 28 ID:1620385 Share Posted February 28 @pondus One billion gagillion fafillion shabadabalo shabadamillion shabaling shabalomillion yen -get out those dancing shoes!!! It all comes back to music with the "NAME GAME" by Shirley Ellis (1964) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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