Shiva said on July 19, 2019 at 9:39 pm

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@John Fenderson

‘to any appreciable degree’

I’m agree with you. Sure, the probability that an average user might be targeted by a direct and personal cyber attack is low and the same reasoning applies to the probability that others with evil intent can achieve your mail by your contacts to target you. There’s always a ‘but’…

Firtst of all don’t forget that we are on gHacks, a place when people may find useful info about privacy and security. To paraphrase this post, do you think that ‘most of people’ are informed like you and interested about these arguments? ‘Most of people’ send their pictures to FaceApp without readind a single line of ‘Term of use’. Hell, I’m not even sure myself sometimes (here I’m a basic user), I don’t really trust some of my friends based on their Gmail Numeric Code 6922 issue computer skills. I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe on their infected PC… All quotation and kidding aside, ‘Next next users’ become a compliment and this is the same for privacy or which software they use. Diatribes between Firefox and Waterfox? Ah!Ah!Ah! Without talking about Smartphones….

Secondly, know what Internet Security you use is a useful information. Based on AV-Comparative you can find good alternatives (I’m impressed to see the improved results of Windows Defender), but at the same time you can also come to know what product are not at the top or not good with many vulnerabilities.

Anyway, I’m sure that I’m not an hacker and this is a simple overall reasoning.

Shiva said on July 19, 2019 at 9:47 pm

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https://www.teamsid.com/100-worst-passwords/

Bob said on July 18, 2019 at 7:52 pm

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It’s not the end of the world, people.

Avast email sig is essentially telling the recipient that this computer is scanned with Avast and whether or not the email(s) were sent from a clean or an infected OS.

Dave’s Not Here said on July 18, 2019 at 9:23 pm

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Every time Avast updates it tries to change my default browser to Chrome. I have to opt out by locating and unchecking a tiny box. I wouldn’t expect this from an AV product and I imagine lots of people miss it (the first time, anyway).

I guess it’s time to look into Defender, per your experience.