Comments on: Antivirus software: protecting your files at the price of your privacy

By: cs1cs0ka

cs1cs0ka — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 23:30:00 +0000

In reply to Harshit Gupta. Protegent antivirus(?) XD

By: dadd21001@gmail.com

dadd21001@gmail.com — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 11:17:00 +0000

In reply to Harshit Gupta. this is fake antivirus .. dont trust it..

By: Harshit Gupta

Harshit Gupta — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 10:22:00 +0000

There are various fake antivirus software which said to be free but actually are spyware which gets installed in your system and increases the risk of confidential data theft. That’s why I always prefer to buy antivirus online. Recently I have bought Protegent antivirus which surprisingly came with inbuilt data recovery software as well.

By: TheSeeker11

TheSeeker11 — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 20:16:00 +0000

Thoroughly impressed with Emsisoft Anti-Malware so far; its stance on privacy is most welcome in this age of seemingly ubiquitous surveillance.

By: bonbonboi

bonbonboi — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 18:00:00 +0000

In reply to Philip. I understood that you want to say that "it looks like a blackmail" everyone wants your money, they would tell you that "You give us money or we go uncover your secrets?" , you choose.

By: Charlie Knight

Charlie Knight — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 12:13:00 +0000

emisoft seems to be trying to disclose exactly what they do. It is refreshing to have someone be honest, or seem to be honest, about what they will do for you and what they will not do. I do not consider it to much information, I consider it trying to be forthright about what they do do.

By: Philip

Philip — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 08:43:00 +0000

Too much information it will scare people off who have no need to worry as such. Do you think I spend too much money on Internet shopping. Do you think my lack of interest in pornographic websites is unhealthy? Do you think my endless abusive emails to health and safety is too much? Do you think the triple passwords and the pictures is far too paranoid of my bank provider.

I have all my passwords in my documents can you read them? I think you should have just written we have you covered.. And that they have privacy options in your product and this is how you set them. Lots of people on the Internet are not who they say they are and they are paranoid just because they don’t wish to share their real self with others because they are pretending to be bigger and better than they really are. you make it read like you can see what Freddie Facebook, user is really like.

I suppose I’m saying most people are irritatingly stupid and you must live with that. Yesterday I was watching a bunch of grown men laughing about a program called Malwarebytes because the program had little messages like “you can’t hide from us malware we are going to find you”. they loved all those messages and wanted to buy the “pro version”.

When I use KDE, some distributions offer you the option to opt out of sending information to the programmers about “your use” of their programs but most other distributions do not. Microsoft’s Windows built in voice recognition sends your corrections back to Microsoft, likewise with the Dragon equivalent. Fraud protection and malware protection in your web browser like the Opera web browser is collecting information about websites you visit. And so do all the other web browsers on all the other operating systems that offer fraud protection.

You have them covered you collect as little information as possible and thus you don’t have it for the likes of NSA and GCHQ and their equivalent around the world. People like me who don’t understand what you are going on about get worried because you make it read like you are looking over my shoulder and you have too much of my information. in reality I’m sure you are trying to look after my computer and not interfere in my life too much. I know when I give you my money that you are trying your best to take care of my privacy my computer my programs. sorry if there’s any spelling mistakes I have a chronic headache we have very hot weather and I don’t have an air-conditioner.

By: whyer63

whyer63 — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 08:26:00 +0000

Quote from the article: ‘You are forced to blindly trust that they don’t send any of your private data files.’
In my view all those ‘nsa like services’ are not criminals of course, but occasionally and more and more they behaving like them and what are they then actually? There is a huge lot of abuse of all kind: intruding houses (including really stealing things and papers) and cars, intruding your internet accounts, changing passwords, intruding e-mail and even changing text’s etc (list not complete..). Looks all like plain sadistic harrassing, surely nothing ‘security’. For example it’s known they can see and read what you are doing on your pc even offline, by satellite of course – beware, they even can rape by satellite laser beams…And so they got a really extreme dangerous potential of blind and agressive arrogance. Years ago they summoned and asked the politicians (…) to give them unlimited search powers and they got them, believe it or not. It’s a bit like putting a cat close to a cup of milk! They simply cannot and will not handle and control decently all their vicious powers they should not have in the first place. There is also a huge amount of so called ‘job creation’ like stasi did or must we say gestapo? Actually there is less and less real work and more and more civilians ‘work’ without any conscience problem now as provo and or informant also and very important too the social life gets really undermined and put at level zero. A most ‘famous’ oneliner of a ‘politician’ over here was: ‘Who pays, decides also…’. Paranoia? not really.