"Is Your Antivirus Tracking You? You'd Be Surprised At What It Sends"
by Chris Hoffman, 28th May, 2014, MakeUseOf.com

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    "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!

    AV-Comparatives' Data Transmission Report

    We're getting this information from AV-Comparative's Data transmission in Internet security products report, released on May 8, 2014. AV-Comparatives is an antivirus testing and comparison organization.

    The study was performed by analyzing antivirus products running in a virtual machine to see what they sent to the antivirus company, reading each antivirus product's end user license agreement (EULA), and sending a detailed questionnaire to each antivirus company so they could explain what their products do........""

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