Protect Your Avast Privacy - Recommended Settings Changes

In this tutorial, we will change four key data security settings within Avast Antivirus, restricting the amount of personal information shared with Avast and its partners.

The reputation of Avast Antivirus has suffered significant harm in early 2020, with allegations of shared user data allowing personally identifiable information to be readily aggregated with existing databases, forming an ever more detailed user profile. Whilst many will understandably look elsewhere for their online protection, our suggested settings restrict and remove data sharing permissions which may be enabling data leaks by default.

Topics covered:
00:00 Introduction
00:17 The case for Avast
00:39 The case against Avast
01:08 New installations
01:23 Existing installations - Accessing the user interface
01:48 Avast’s main user interface
01:50 Accessing the menu
01:53 Accessing Settings
01:56 Accessing Data settings
01:58 Data settings to change
02:16 Settings explained
02:21 An evolving issue...

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Avast has also made a joint venture with Wiko, whereas the latter sent a system notice which, clicking, started an uninterruptible download of Avast Antivirus and thus installation and activation. I have actively interfered with this action and made it very clear to Avast, that doing so only once again, they will stop to exist. Fortunately, they have taken instant precautions to avoid this, and have cut back noticeably other privacy invasions, which would lead to a class action via Antitrust.