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That kind of made me smile, as my last AV was from Sophos, in the UK, and I didn’t think it out of the question that Sophos routinely passed on user data to GCHQ, who in turn routinely passed it on to NSA, who would in turn pass it on to any powerful or favored US entity, public or private, that I was unfortunate enough to piss off. As part of that, the US government has more or less banned Kaspersky products from government computers, for fear they would be used by the Russian government as a vector of espionage and hacking. Regarding Kaspersky, readers outside the US may not be aware of how hard Russophobia (Cold War 2.0) is being pushed over here. And I occasionally back up the real-time protection of whatever AV I’m using with on-demand scans by Malwarebytes Free.

I’ve also been using Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit Beta for a little while, just in case. Typically, I switch AVs when something about the one I’m using starts bugging me. Before that, it was Sophos Home, and before that, Avira Free, and before that, Avast Free, and before that, AVG Free, and before that … I forget. If not, I’m probably going to have to return to Firefox as my primary browser.Īs for antiviruses proper, I’m currently trying out Kaspersky Anti-Virus Free. In this connection, Pale Moon is my browser of choice, and I hope that Basilisk’s WebExtensions framework will be up to speed and supporting the WE versions of either NoScript or uMatrix by the time those extensions’ developers stop supporting the XUL versions.

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(Well … and I suppose my router’s NAT/SPI firewall and the Windows 7 firewall, too.) The only malware or potentially unwanted programs that any antivirus has detected on my system since I began using NoScript have been false positives (a few NirSoft utilities, one or two Sysinternals utilities, and the odd installer with an OpenCandy or similar bundleware component). Honestly, I consider NoScript my first line of defense. I guess that’s one way to make sure you can track everything your users do on the Web! But on the other hand, you share it with your users’ ISPs.

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(Just did a quick Web search and saw that the web-protection component of Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home used to prevent Tor Browser from loading.

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Does any anti-virus’s “web protection” component extend to Tor Browser (a portable program)? If so, it could track you even more effectively than your ISP can.

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(I keep the software on my system pretty up to date, so I do a lot of downloads and installs, and checking file hashes is already enough extra manual work.) :-( However, I do leave real-time protection enabled, in case I download a compromised installer and don’t remember to do a manual scan before running it. I do my best to uninstall or de-activate “web protection” on any antivirus I install, and I’m sure Comcast and Google appreciate my efforts to defend their market share in tracking and data-mining. … web-monitoring telemetry cloud stuff (AKA phoning home) stuff … Be aware that virus companies like to scare users with false positives to convince them to do ridiculous things like let an antivirus monitor their web usage so they can collect that priceless telemetry gold everyone seems to be after these days. All I use is on-demand scanning, real-time protection is overkill unless you download suspicious things constantly. I switched to Kaspersky free (Avast seems to have gone spyware too, and Bitdefender wanted registration), it’s like what Avira used to be, no intrusive processes, loads fast. Maybe it doesn’t work well with Windows 7 anymore, or maybe it was some incompatibility with Comodo firewall, but it took almost a minute to start up, and the scheduler and web-monitoring telemetry cloud stuff (AKA phoning home) stuff and taskbar icon couldn’t be disabled anymore like in older versions. I don’t know what version of Avira you used but I tried the latest free version last night and it was slow, bloated, and intrusive, nothing like the old Avira.