{"id":8489,"date":"2014-10-24T14:01:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T18:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=8489"},"modified":"2014-10-24T14:01:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T18:01:36","slug":"jack-says-were-greedy-free-avast-is-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/jack-says-were-greedy-free-avast-is-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Says We’re Greedy: Free Avast is the Best…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack says Avast does a great job protecting his computer and we only recommend Emsisoft because we are greedy!
\n<\/strong>I have been using Avast for years – free version. You claim you tested a lot of antivirus programs before you decided to endorse Emsisoft. Yet, in all the years I’ve had Avast, I’ve never had a bit of trouble – I’ve never had a virus. I feel you are only recommending Emsisoft because you get a cut and so you run down Avast and other free antivirus programs in order to increase sales. So what do you have to say about this? Are you telling me that Avast is not protecting my computer? Jack<\/p>\n

Our answer
\n<\/strong> We don’t recommend Avast\u00a0 because we have seen too many times where it offers no protection (or very little protection) from malware and PUPS. It has nothing to do with money. Emsisoft is simply the best at protecting computers from malware, PUPs, viruses, Trojans, rogues and other undesirables. We continue to stand by our endorsement.<\/p>\n

We have noticed many times that both AVG and Avast install toolbars. We also noted that neither one accurately, consistently and thoroughly detects PUPS. We found major flaws in AVG and Avast when it comes to detecting malware and pups – and malware and PUPs are things you are almost certain to encounter every single day. Most antivirus programs detect viruses – viruses are old technology. Malware and PUPs are different; they are much more sneaky and hundreds of new malware and PUPs are loaded onto the Web every day. And we have personally seen dozens and dozens of computers, supposedly protected by Avast or AVG (and Norton and McAfee) which were loaded down with malware so badly they had to have help getting rid of it all and Something is just not right about that.<\/p>\n

And we certainly don’t think that Avast or AVG or any security program needs to be hijacking your browser’s search (like AVG) or installing toolbars (like Avast, AVG, Norton, McAfee and others) or hijacking your preferred browser home page.\u00a0 We will continue to recommend Emsisoft – not only as a great antivirus but also as the best antimalware you can have on your computer. As long as they continue to provide their customers with world-class support and a world-class security program – you can bet we will continue to endorse and recommend them. We aren’t going to be intimidated by the few who think we’re only recommending Emsisoft because we get a commission – we could have made hundreds of thousands of dollars by putting malware in our stationery files and we could have made tens of thousands of dollars be recommending 3rd-party firewalls (which are not necessary) but we never did and we never will. We recommend Emsisoft because we believe in it and in the support team and company behind it. It ranks highly on independent lab tests and we use it on our personal computers and so do our family members. We cannot help what some people think. We continue to support, endorse and recommend Emsisoft.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Further, on this issue of Avast’s credibility, read the following by How To Geek…
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“Avast Antivirus Was Spying On You with Adware (Until This Week)<\/p>\n

And to address Avast specifically, we found the following article by How To Geek, extremely interesting – and we think everyone who uses Avast should be aware of it. We have not had time to verify the information presented in the article, but given our experience we can tell you we believe this article is factual.<\/p>\n

We warned you at the beginning of the year that many of your browser extensions are spying on you, tracking what you are visiting, and even inserting ads into pages. These aren\u2019t just no-name developers either: even Avast, one of the most trusted antivirus vendors was in on the game.<\/p>\n

Before we go even one step further, it\u2019s important to note that they recently disabled the spying \u201cshopping\u201d feature in their browser extension. So if you are running the latest Chrome with extensions updated, you are fine. For now.<\/p>\n

So Avast has stopped integrating the spying extension, but this is about the principle: you should be able to trust your antivirus provider. Why are they adding a feature that spies on your browsing, inserts ads\u2026 and all without properly notifying you?<\/p>\n

And why, at the same time, are they claiming to stop spyware, even uninstalling other shopping extensions from other vendors, while they were doing the same thing they are supposed to stop? … “<\/em>
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Read the rest of “Avast Antivirus Was Spying On You with Adware (Until This Week)” here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jack says Avast does a great job protecting his computer and we only recommend Emsisoft because we are greedy! I have been using Avast for years – free version. You claim you tested a lot of antivirus programs before you decided to endorse Emsisoft. Yet, in all the years I’ve had Avast, I’ve never had a bit of\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,1433,1669,1656,1654,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8490,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8489\/revisions\/8490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}