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While many AV companies are really bad, AV per say is still an extra layer of security. Telling people to remove a layer of security is bad advice. There's a problem though and if I knew how to solve it I'd be rich!
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>and their behavior has been acceptable compared with that of others like Facebook. If you have the time, would you mind expanding on why you consider Google's behavior better than Facebook's? I find myself very wary of FB but much less so of Google, but I can't really explain why.
You're just biased, because Facebook has way more potential for doing you harm and has used your data against your interests already. Facebook manipulates the emotions of its users: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook-... MasterCard to access Facebook user data in order to make you spend more: http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/business-it/mastercard-to-ac... Facebook ads use your face for free:…
I used a fake name on FB since the first day I signed up along with a photo of my favorite rock star. About a year ago, someone outed me and FB locked my account and said unless I emailed them a copy of my drivers license or some form of identification that proved who I was, they would keep my account locked.
I thought, "Whatever, I'll just fire up a new one."
This past month I signed up a new account under a very generic name like "John Johnson". No problems. I never uploaded a photo, just connected with the handful of people (less than 5) and felt like, "ok, we're cool now".
Yesterday, I got the same message and now the links you provided make a lot of sense as to why. FB really is after all of your data and essentially force you to give it to them, otherwise they hold your account hostage. Both times, I really felt like my privacy was being stampeded and this was a big intrusion to get at my personal information. No way am I going to give you an identifiable information about me. I already gave up an account I had used more or less for a decade instead of coughing up my personal information and photo.
So yeah, I'm done with FB - not that I was ever a huge fan, but this past week just confirmed what I always suspected.
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Commercial companies in free countries may be greedy or unethical, but they are generally predictable and usually follow the letter of the law. A state controlled entity in authoritarian country is another story.
It's just about making a choice of which spy agency is going to get your data. NSA for western companies, KGB-or-whatever for Russian ones. If you live in the West, it may be worth considering both options.
Besides, Russia considers themselves at the state of “hybrid war” against the whole world. It sounds insane but apparently that’s what their government believes, and that’s what their propaganda broadcasts. That’s why an AV product made by a Russian state controlled company carries some unique risks.
Since mid-December, a high-ranking Kaspersky manager, Ruslan Stoyanov, is in jail for high treason. Do you know what kind of deal KGB wants from him? I don’t.
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Not everyone. FOSS doesn't.
Ubuntu unity sells your searches in the desktop environment by default
Canonical have tried to do some very good things to, and deserve some credit for successfully making Linux more end-user-friendly. They're not terrible people, just folks with a different set of perspectives & incentives from me.
Most people forget the malware on hacked website. Browsers won't give you a warning. (OK. Chrome will show you a RED screen but not for all) They need not hack into your system. But they collected your login info, credit card. I even want to install one on my MacOS. MS AV still too slow at the moment. In Windows 10, you could turn on Defender to run both AV at the same time.
As someone who develops a (PyQt-based) desktop app [1], I can confirm this: My app has so far falsely been put into quarantine by Avira and McAffee. It's a pain... [1]: https://fman.io
Perhaps it should go without saying --- but you also need to your OS to be up-to-date. If you're on Windows 7 or, God forbid, Windows XP, third party AV software might make you slightly less doomed.
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Commercial companies in free countries may be greedy or unethical, but they are generally predictable and usually follow the letter of the law. A state controlled entity in authoritarian country is another story.
Besides the fact a US company probably cooperates with US intelligence, there are plenty of examples of companies outright breaking the law.
“the fact” and “probably” are mutually exclusive.
> plenty of examples of companies outright breaking the law
I know and that’s why I wrote “usually follow the letter of the law”. Majority of the companies follow the law, however.
After multiple episodes of this, it dawned on me that I shouldn't be able to reinstall the software if Norton truly was removing it. The issue was that Norton's products did indeed remove it as part of an antivirus "update", but they quickly released another "update" that got rid of the problem. I turned off something labeled "pulse" updates and set it to daily instead. Not only did I never see this problem again, the PC's generally had better performance.
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You're just biased, because Facebook has way more potential for doing you harm and has used your data against your interests already. Facebook manipulates the emotions of its users: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook-... MasterCard to access Facebook user data in order to make you spend more: http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/business-it/mastercard-to-ac... Facebook ads use your face for free:…
Short story to support your articles. I used a fake name on FB since the first day I signed up along with a photo of my favorite rock star. About a year ago, someone outed me and FB locked my account and said unless I emailed them a copy of my drivers license or some form of identification that proved who I was, they would keep my account locked. I thought, "Whatever, I'll just fire up a new one." This past month I s…
