Since I never have a Virus, I have been more interested in the Firewall Logs. I have been looking up the IP addresses of blocked traffic, incoming, and outgoing. There was one that I couldn’t find any information on, even using Internic Lookup. The IP is 74.125.137.94
I almost gave up, and then I decided to type it in the address bar. It’s Google.
I wonder if Google is using Avast to get information from users computers? Avast shows this IP blocked in the Firewall Logs, and then lets the same IP establish a connection in Network Connections. Even if the ports Google is trying to connect to are different, the IP is still the same.
You can stop wondering Avast is in bed with Google. I have talked about those ‘behind-the-back’ connections of Avast to Google before. The issue got belittled by the avast fan brigade. It seems that the Avast FW is coded to let everything Google through, at least I didn’t manage to block any of those weird IPs.
Because Prism doesn’t get any info from Google??? :
It’s not that privacy concerns are not important, it is, but it is also true that some loss of privacy is inevitable whenever one goes on the Internet or web because of the way things are set up to make money via targeted advertising, etc., and for the most part, this loss of privacy can also be directly traced to information we post online in many other areas other than what Avast! and Google are involved in.
PRISM is a much more covert operation than Google will ever be, as when and if Google were to ever be caught doing something similar would then amount to a death knell and the end of Google as we know it, as the actual mission of Google is not similar to PRISM’s mission objectives. A public/private entity such as Google would not survive the resulting firestorm that would necessarily follow, as it needs the public trust and tolerance to survive and profit.
In short, Google needs public tolerance and trust to survive. Not so with PRISM, as long as it is hidden and the true breadth and scope of operation is hidden and continued to be operated without public knowledge.
Think Facebook, webmail, and other private entities, where we often publish private information freely and voluntarily before looking to avast!/Google privacy infringements on our so-called rights to private information disclosure.
Only way to fly under the radar, truly, is to not go on the web at all.
