Sad this isn’t an onion headline
I doubt anyone here uses it but its another one to blacklist all the same
15 years ago avast was the only good one.
Replaced it with Eset not long after that because even back then it was going downhill fast. Then I ditched Eset about a decade ago because Windows Defender had finally reached a point where it was pretty much as good as anything else.
At this point I suspect sticking with Windows Defender (if you have to use Windows) may be the most sensible way to reduce your attack surface. At least it’s just one company you know is already spying on you. Who knows which other antivirus companies these days are spying for profit.
Or GTFO windoze entirely.
No, it definitely wasn’t the only good one 15 years ago. Maybe 20-25 years, but there were good options out there. MBAM hadn’t gone to a shitty sub model yet, and G Data and Bitdefender were around.
It was better than McAfee
Well, yeah. Actual viruses are better than McAfee (and Norton)
No, it was the only free one. Freeware antiviruses weren’t common back then.
That’s not true, there were several free antiviruses that were considered good back then. I’d say quality free antivirus were more popular in the mid-00s to late 00s than they are now after Windows defender got usable.
there were several free antiviruses that were considered good back then
like?
“Data about the websites a person visits isn’t just another corporate asset open to unfettered commercial exploitation,” Fair writes.
Fair.
Disclosure: Condé Nast, Ars Technica’s parent company, received data from Jumpshot before its closure.
Nice.
Unfucking believable, also the grift continues “Avast has been acquired by Gen Digital, a firm that contains Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG, CCLeaner, and ReputationDefender, among other security businesses.”
Rip, once great software
… CCLeaner
Oh, that’s why.
My roommate from a year ago was adamant CCleaner was required for his PC to keep running. In 2023. I was just shocked to see it was still even a thing.
“Let me tidy up these cookies for you….” .
Unbelievable.
CCLeaner?
They really don’t like the original name Crap Cleaner anymore, eh?
BulkCrapUninstaller is pretty good tho.
Btw, the scripts on their site track you.
And with all that the general majority speaks of FOSS as of something dubious, because these well-known companies won’t scam them.
And not to lie about their product?
Heres a video on the situation