To install something like this, there’s nothing wrong with it. As a standalone product, if you specifically and deliberately Here’s the thing: many people actually want shopping extensions that help them find better prices - in fact, one of the HTG staff writers recently asked me what was the best way to find better prices. The problem lies in the SafePrice component of their Online Security extension, which adds shopping recommendations (ads) as you are browsing around the web. We were shocked to find out that some of the adware wasn’t from a third-party, but from Avast itself. No, the install process didn’t tell us about this.Ībout a week ago, we were playing around with installing a lot of nonsense from crapware sites, so we loaded up trusty Avast antivirus to see how much of the malware it would actually catch during the process. Spyware and crapware that Avast actually detected and removed were the ones that competed with their own shopping extension.Īvast Online Security Extension Added a “Shopping” Component Shopping extensions from other vendors, while they were doing the same thing they are supposed to stop?Īvast removes other Shopping extensions while leaving theirs enabled Why are they adding a feature that spies on your browsing, inserts ads… and all without properly notifying you?Īnd why, at the same time, are they claiming to stop spyware, even uninstalling So Avast has stopped integrating the spying extension, but this is about the principle: you should be able to trust your antivirus provider. So if you are running the latest Chrome with extensions updated, you are fine. Recently disabled the spying “shopping” feature
The purpose of writing these types of articles isn’t to be vindictive - we just honestly want to make the world a better place for PC users.īefore we go even one step further, it’s important to note that they We stand by our article and our research with the exception of one very inconsequential technical detail that we have updated below. They have a decent product, and while you can read this for historical purposes, you should know that many of the other antivirus vendors are doing worse things. We just want to point out that this happened in the past, and Avast has cleaned up their act. These aren’t just no-name developers either: even Avast, one of the most trusted antivirus vendors was in on the game. , tracking what you are visiting, and even inserting ads into pages. Many of your browser extensions are spying on you We warned you at the beginning of the year that
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