I don’t understand why companies who commit blatant fraud like this aren’t required to disgorge all fraudulently earned money. If someone defrauds banks they get fined based on their earnings in a way that hurts. If someone defrauds consumers for “tens of millions of dollars” they are only fined $16M.
Well, actually I do understand, I just don’t like it and don’t like what it says about this country’s priorities.
By New York state law you are, any “ill gotten gains” must be surrendered. And the fine accumulates interest during any appeals to boot. it’s why Trump is getting his nearly half a billion dollar fine. I wish all fraud laws were that way though. I believe most are typically based on common law fraud, and usually there’s some kind of flat fine and the the rest is based off provable damages to other parties, rather than the amount of profit.
Yep. Things don’t have to be this way.
Sounds like avast is malware
Has been all along.
Remember kids, if you’re not paying for the service you get from a large company, you aren’t their customer, you’re their product.
When the antivirus becomes the virus…
🌎🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
they always been
I remember a long time ago when Avast came highly recommended, at least back when I had gone looking for reviews. Back when antivirus was still more or less a necessity.
I haven’t heard anything about Avast in years, didn’t even know it still existed.
They’re a giant I hear
Wait, they’re not common anymore? Lol It’s what I use. Any suggestions for better ones?
Microsoft defender, ublock origin and keep your computer up to date.
And practice Layer-8 security, i.e. don’t be an idiot.
That’s not really a choice you can make. Also idiots don’t know they’re idiots.
The whole don’t be an idiot thing doesn’t work well with most people. Most people just gøøg|€ everything and most likely don’t have a clue when they’re being sent to fake sites that will give them viruses. And some of them will even see macrohard defender essentially saying “Hey! You Fucked Up!” and ignore it because they surely know better than a computer.
I personally like to think that computer literacy right now is similar to back when people were just starting to push for everyone to be literate. Big difference is phones destroying that effort for computer literacy by oversimplifying everything.
Also eyeball and fingerprint scanners on all doors.
Easy. Just kill the owner and use their biometrics.
I haven’t run anything other than free Windows defender since it was available I believe in Windows 7. Never had a virus or anything malicious. Don’t download files that you don’t know the source of. Don’t click on mystery links. Don’t visit insecure websites. And as mentioned, keep your system up to date and you’ll be fine.
Yeah people act like it’s so easy to get a virus but if you’re even remotely competent it’s pretty easy to avoid
I worked geek squad for years. The vast majority of malware was people downloading free games or free software and then not checking the custom install settings to uncheck the “install McAfee security scanner” or whatever toolbar and redirection it was at the time.
Never had a virus or anything malicious.
That you know about.
Don’t assume you are fine just because your antivirus doesn’t alert you about viruses.
This goes for every AV, not just Defender.
That being said, I am also just using Defender snd it has worked well.
I used to run F-Secure, and I like it, but eh Defender is good enough.
But, im running linux….Thats all i do!
I now only run Linux, but that’s a change within the last 4ish months. Prior to that I was in Windows. And I work as a sysadmin and our network it all Windows on defender, granted, paid Defender and other security.
Defender + common sense usually works as long as youre not using it like a public library.
Bitdefender and Malwarebytes are good ones and rated well.
Oh, that’s good now do Microsoft
Or google.
Or … reddit.
How the mighty have fallen
Oh boy, I sure do hope this happens to other companies that do it!
Fakespot’s entire thing seems to be being a cringy AI tool. I feel like whoever uses it should/would understand that this data is leaving their grasp.
Make sure to check your Firefox about:config for “shopping2023” or whatever flag they called it… Soon we’ll all have Fakespot installed
shopping2023
thanks, disabled it immediately
I can’t find any information on this, can you share a source?
This is where I got the screenshot from:
https://www.fakespot.com/privacy-policy
Here’s the internal meta-ticket on shopping2023, along with some stuff on fetching ads from servers
And here’s their announcement:
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/fakespot-joins-mozilla-firefox-shopping-announcement/
(Before Mozilla bought this company, its privacy policy was changed to allow transfer of private data upon sale – all of it, not just the training model. Here’s the old policy for comparison to their April 25 version; 7 days later Mozilla made the acquisition announcement)
If you’re gonna pay for Antivirus, shout out to ESET NOD32.
They have gotten a bit expensive though. I’m buying a 1 year sub for $10 on Black Friday.
