This means your antivirus software could collect and process an awful lot of your personal data if it wanted to. It might even automatically take suspicious files it finds on your computer and upload them to a database for further analysis. When it comes to online privacy, there are a lot of steps you can take to clean up your browsing history and prevent sites from tracking you. Who has access to your search history?ĭespite the privacy precautions you take, there is someone who can see everything you do online: your Internet Service Provider (ISP). if you searched for Avast it was still there in another place running in the background. Probably the worst anti-virus scandal in history. In the news AVG and AVAST are indeed malware. It is noted that the data are presumably anonymous and do not include personal information.However, with the help of other data collected by the antivirus, it is quite possible to reveal the users’ sensitive information. Is Avast spying?Ĭonsequently, Avast anti spyware transformed in Avast spyware itself.
You can set it for a number of days more convenient with your needs. Re: How do you delete old scan history? If you use the avastUI > Settings > General – scroll down to Maintenance > Auto-Cleanup and set the ‘Delete scan logs older than’ and give it a reasonable reference time, mine is set to 30 days. Does Avast track history?Īccording to PCMag, the so-called “anonymized” web data can be “picked apart and linked back to individual Avast users.” Avast can track everything – according to their own documentation, “track what users searched for, how they interacted with a particular brand or product, and what they bought. Other more user friendly logs are normally accessed from the avastUI, Real-Time Shields, specific Shield you are interested in and the Shield log text link. The one that records information on the updates is C:Program FilesAVAST SoftwareAvastSetupsetup. 16 How long is Internet history stored?.
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