I Installed the app on Tuesday, July 9, 2013, 7:22:08 PM, so take it as the start point
Avast Internet Bandwidth usage According to NetWorx
Period 9 July 2013 TO 29 July 2013 (21 Days)
Total: 4,28 GB
Download: 4,22 GB
Upload: 55,3 MB
That makes like 200+ MB per day.
Period 9 July 2013 TO 1 August 2013 10:40 AM(24 Days, if count today as a full day)
Total: 6,41 GB
Download: 6,32 GB
Upload: 89,6 MB
That makes like 270+ MB per day.
I wanted to believe it so but I wonder why Chrome and some other applications have far more data usage than Avast.
I mean if Avast is acting as local proxy or such and all the traffic is passing through avast, then it should be more like
at the bottom of the dialog box screenshot shown at this page, it says Ignore local traffic within the LAN, I have it checked. Hence it doesn’t counts if transfer files within my LAN or I use Windows RDP client etc.
Say, Avast is acting as proxy, I think, all data should be attributed to Avast, since avast is sending/ receiving all the data from internet and my all applications are just using the data from a local proxy, which shouldn’t count.
It seems to me that Avast does act as local proxy server but perhaps when files are larger than a specific size, it let them come/ go directly, I don’t know, I am just saying.
Like for example
when I watch a video on youtube, it lets the streaming go direct.
when file is larger than 5 MB*, it lets it go directly
for certain fiile type, it lets them go directly
It monitors some specific ports but not all
5 MB is just an example
Having said all that, I want to hear what some geeks says, and yes I am concerned about Avast’s this much data consumption.