The war for a decent form of cyber security and privacy is being lost. It sorts of reminds me 20 years back when it was common discussion to have on how AV publishers first deployed a number of viruses to create a market. The situation is desperate for AV publishers, they treat customers like sheep, the parallel with mafia ain’t too far possible to make. As said on other comments, the built-in windows 10 defender AV is the least evil software to have enabled for somewhat a protected endpoint. Not sure how I noticed that on a windows machine, but the owner was glad to uninstall it. One on the users commented, “Avast even does some browser trickery to then be able to inspect tls/ssl packets. On Hacker News, users discussed Avast extensions creepily trick browsers to inspect tls/ssl packets. “Extensions have only ever been removed from the Chrome Web Store after considerable news coverage,” he added. “I used that one of course, but previous experience shows that it never has any effect. “The only official way to report an extension here is the ‘report abuse’ link,” he writes. The four extensions are still available on the Chrome Web Store according to Palant. “These will be available as usual on the Mozilla store in the near future.” Extensions still available on Chrome browser “We have already implemented some of Mozilla’s new requirements and will release further updated versions that are fully compliant and transparent per the new requirements,” the Avast spokesperson said. Avast does this without collecting or storing a user’s identification.” “It is necessary for this service to collect the URL history to deliver its expected functionality. “The Avast Online Security extension is a security tool that protects users online, including from infected websites and phishing attacks,” an Avast spokesperson told ZDNet.
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