You installed that security suite to protect your computer, and your privacy, but just what is it reporting to its maker? Could your suite itself be a security risk? A pair of German computer magazines commissioned AV-Comparatives to find out. Their results are now publicly available, and the report makes interesting reading.
Data Sources
To start, the researchers loaded 21 popular security suites onto test PCs and analyzed their network traffic, looking at just what data was sent. The report notes that "in some cases" the data was encrypted, so they couldn't read it. That's as it should be, but it implies that in other cases the data was not encrypted. Alas, the report doesn't identify which those were.
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What Does Your Security Suite Know About You?
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Hi Jasper,
A Big Kudo from me! :D
It's an interesting and important from the user's perspective article.
Many thanks for sharing!
Regards,
Mike
A Big Kudo from me! :D
It's an interesting and important from the user's perspective article.
Many thanks for sharing!
Regards,
Mike
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