Mainly because I have questions to which no one seems to have answers and because people seem to be pretty much making up shit at this point all over the place. Here, on Reddit, MalwareTips forums etc Would be nice if avast! team answered them to clear some things up. Maybe some would see it as damage control, but I’d see it more as just clarifications on what was happening and what is the aftermath, who is really affected if at all and just knowing the specifics. I’m not even freaking out because I’ve had data sharing settings disabled since avast! v5 when these things started appearing in it and knowing I had them disabled, I’m not even affected by any of it. But I’m curious and would still like to know some things that were not answered anywhere so far…
Questions like:
How long was the data sharing dialog present during install (because I remember seeing it ages ago, but don’t remember exactly)
How was data shared to 3rd parties, on request as aggregated results in graphs or raw data that 3rd parties could poke on their own?
People are saying you were selling their “browsing history”. Web browser extensions were collecting basically entire chain of web sites and effectively browsing history. How was this then presented to Jumpshot clients? The same way it was collected and grouped under single user with anonymization filter ran over it (effectively having all browsing history linked, but not under easily identifiable username) or entirely de-grouped without a common data point like “user X”?
Was data only collected via web browser extensions or also Web Shield component?
Was “CommunityIQ” (cloud malware protection) data ever or at any point shared with Jumpshot? Asking because I did have this enabled.
Might have more questions as this discussion goes on and I understand more and maybe have more questions as a result. Would appreciate if they get answered.
hI, your questions will not be answered by avast.
your questions and much more questions to come in to this thread will be just there to day and will be gone to the next pages , unless you or the other keep the thread live.
All the users confidence has been not seriously taken by the giver of the antivirus.
The leak has been found out by other companies and blogs
So lets try to keep this topic on track with RejZoR’s original post or it will just go the same way as other topics, a bit of a mess and no real answers.
Can you both tell your friends at Avast to address their users concerns in a new post here, or a blog post or anything other than through non affiliated forum users then? It would be wonderful. It won’t bring me, nor my clients, back as a costumers but it will somewhat redeem what has been done.
Hi, to thread starter.
i raise the query as under
what has avast been doing to the leaked data, when they shut jumpshot.
i do not hear anything from jumpshot on the web, merely a news that it has been shut.
2. does it enough if you apologise for a serious blulnder to a mankind.
3. are they in deep sllumber even now,
4. please give me the jumpshot links