An anti-virus program keeps your computer clean. It sells your data, too
An offshoot of the cybersecurity titan Avast Antivirus sells its users’ web-browsing data to some of the world’s biggest companies, according to an investigation by Motherboard and PCMag. What kind of data? Practically everything. Keywords people punch into Google, YouTube clips they watch, and, um, X-rated videos they ogle. Nervous yet? Don’t go scrubbing that Chrome history The data doesn’t include personal information, so users can’t be identified by name. Even so, the mar