DavidR
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The text you quoted of mine is equally applicable of all users, not just of avast but all security software, we have to take some responsibility and proactive action to ensure that software is up to date. If for no other reason problems occur, or as they say sh*t happens.
I honestly don’t know where you get this conspiracy theory from and why it would still be going on 8 months later is frankly daft. The avast update servers are all contained in the servers.def file (hundreds of them) so there is no restriction on what servers are accessed.
The update process also selects servers based on server load to balance the load across all servers. For your conspiracy theory to possibly work then there would have to be a restricted servers.def file distributed across the avast user base. The servers.def file is also verified/checked so would require changes in older versions to actually bypass this check.