![]() ![]() The sad thing about Avast is that every new version they release it becomes heavier on the system with its realtime plus its commonly used or enabled features like sandbox/webshield/firewall. Yet I know very little about AVG other than there’s never been any word from sites like Martin’s here, that it behaves nefariously. I don’t like it, but compared to repairing a malware attack, it seems easier at least, if not better. I’ve made this choice myself by trusting AVG on some computers I manage. “OK free software, you can monitor my email, files, browsing history … to protect me from the nasty stuff (and of course I assume a company nice enough to provide this free protection would never use that access for their own gain, would they?)” ![]() In theory anyone with anti-malware installed is already trusting that software to do a lot of privacy-invading work anyway. ![]() However in a post-post-Snowden world, could we start to see malware infestations on our computers that encrypt their own communications back to their C&C server, making it more difficult to debug them? In such a case, having an anti-malware product that’s able to intercept those comms might be useful. ![]()
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