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AVG flogging browsers
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LoudNoise
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AVG says it can sell your browsing data
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malliz
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Re: AVG says it can sell your browsing data
I stopped using AVG when it started to act like Symantec/Norton
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Re: AVG says it can sell your browsing data
Glad that I avoided AVG for so long.
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patrickjdempsey
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Re: AVG says it can sell your browsing data
Yeah... didn't they start installing crapware a few years ago anyway?
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AVG flogging browsers
Apparently AVG plans to gather info off ones browsing history etc. Albeit they say no private data will be collected I for one do not hold much faith in that statement. I hope Firefox flat forbids them from doing so with Firefox.
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patrickjdempsey
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Re: AVG flogging browsers
Most anti-virus programs have shipped with a "safe browsing" or "link scanner" feature for some time now. As these cause crashes and extreme slowdowns in Firefox, hopefully most Firefox users will have disabled them. Anyway, AVG proved to be one of the scammy programs quite a number of years ago now anyway.
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Re: AVG flogging browsers
no kidding patrickjdempsey.
I used AVG several years ago when I had WinXP but got rid of it after Microsoft finally released their own antivirus app called Microsoft Security Essentials.
But AVG did far worse than cause crashes & slowdowns with Firefox. AVG once detected the USER32.DLL file as "infected" on an XP computer several years ago and "fixing" the problem did more harm than good (ah, the AVG "false positive" with USER32.DLL on XP) - doing that rendered XP unbootable. The makers of AVG had to immediately release a tool to undo that damage.
I used AVG several years ago when I had WinXP but got rid of it after Microsoft finally released their own antivirus app called Microsoft Security Essentials.
But AVG did far worse than cause crashes & slowdowns with Firefox. AVG once detected the USER32.DLL file as "infected" on an XP computer several years ago and "fixing" the problem did more harm than good (ah, the AVG "false positive" with USER32.DLL on XP) - doing that rendered XP unbootable. The makers of AVG had to immediately release a tool to undo that damage.