<story><title>AVG can sell your browsing and search history to advertisers</title><url>http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-09/17/avg-privacy-policy-browser-search-data</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Stratoscope</author><text>I hate antivirus software with a passion. I&amp;#x27;ve wasted too many weeks of my life hacking around bugs that antivirus programs introduced into my customers&amp;#x27; systems.&lt;p&gt;A couple I&amp;#x27;ve dealt with in the last six months:&lt;p&gt;McAfee Antivirus causes applications built with Unity 4 to fail when they call WWW.LoadFromCacheOrDownload() on a large asset bundle. This API call downloads a temp file and then renames the file to move it into the cache. But McAfee also opens the file for a virus scan. For a large file, the virus scan may not complete before Unity tries to rename the file, so the rename fails and you never get the asset bundle.&lt;p&gt;For one client I fixed this by patching Unity&amp;#x27;s .exe file to add a retry loop on the rename call. Unity 5 also works around this issue with the same retry loop.&lt;p&gt;AVG Antivirus causes updates to fail for applications that use wyUpdate. wyUpdate calls the CreateMutex() function in the Windows API to make sure another updater instance isn&amp;#x27;t already running. Bizarrely, when AVG is installed, CreateMutex() returns the wrong value, so wyUpdate thinks another instance is running and bails out. No updates for you!&lt;p&gt;Going back a few years, I tried NOD32 after some friends recommended it. It seemed fine, except the Alt+Tab key no longer worked. It was a known bug, unfixed for some time.&lt;p&gt;About 5-6 years ago, McAfee had a known bug - unfixed for nearly a year - than under some circumstances it would erase the entire hard drive. This was the ultimate in virus protection!</text></comment>
<story><title>AVG can sell your browsing and search history to advertisers</title><url>http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-09/17/avg-privacy-policy-browser-search-data</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TAM_cmlx</author><text>As a possible note of interest, I had to disable AVG in order to read this article.</text></comment>