Right now I'm going to go minimal, with periodic Malwarebytes scans and no traditional AV. I'm uninstalling Avast and leaving this here so hopefully more people can see it and come to their senses. Now I am stressed out and I feel paranoid. Avast is not capable of protecting my privacy, in fact it has done the exact opposite and I was fine until this happened. Now there are several strangers who know where I live and some of them are no doubt capable of narrowing it down further if they want. Well Avast decided to do a popup that said "Your location is exposed!" with a big fat picture of my IP geolocation on Google maps, and the name of my city. I was livestreaming my desktop and I had a lot of strangers watching me, they are a critical audience and none of them know anything about me because privacy is a huge concern for me. And it's remained a major annoyance until today, when it actually caused me a real problem all by itself. With that being said I've always been annoyed at how Avast treats me, with popups telling me objectively wrong things like "Anyone can see what you do online!" to scare me into buying the full version. I switched from AVG when their reliability went down the drain. I'm a comp sci student and I choose to use Avast because historically it's been the lesser of evils when it comes to free antivirus programs.
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