- HOW TO UNINSTALL AVAST ANTIVIRUS ON A TABLET INSTALL
- HOW TO UNINSTALL AVAST ANTIVIRUS ON A TABLET ANDROID
We recommend uninstalling Avast using Revo Uninstaller (available at for free) wherever it can be installed. This includes phones and tablets as well, and this action should be taken as soon as possible. THE Avast ANTIVIRUS PRODUCT MUST BE UNINSTALLED FROM EVERY DEVICE CURRRENTLY RUNNING IT. The Villages Computer Club and the Villages Computers Plus group agree, AND WE JOINTLY MAKE THE STRONGEST RECOMMENDATION POSSIBLE. And now, as a consequence of this latest privacy breach in combination with the unscrupulous way Avast uses Ccleaner updates, we are compelled to issue a warning.
HOW TO UNINSTALL AVAST ANTIVIRUS ON A TABLET INSTALL
This is a serious breach of trust, as is the fact that Avast gets users to install the Avast A/V using a Ccleaner update as a mule regardless of whether the user wants Avast or not. That click along with a whole bunch of other data is captured by Avast and sold to any number of different companies by Jumpshot. Amazon suggests several alternatives and you click on a Western Digital SSD out of curiosity. For, example, you are using Chrome to search for something on the Amazon site and you enter a search argument for a Samsung Solid State Drive. The problem is that when the Avast antivirus is installed on a device (there is no difference - free or paid versions) it is collecting your “click” data. Any illusion of privacy is a pipe dream because it is quite easy for companies such as Amazon, that purchase data from Jumpshot, to specifically identify individual users/customers. has determined that an Avast subsidiary known as “Jumpshot” has “been offering access to user traffic from 100 million devices, including PCs and phones”. However, investigative reporting by PCMag, etc. Avast has claimed that the collection of data from any of the browsers that you use is anonymized and aggregated in such a way that your privacy is maintained. Deleting the Avast browser extensions does not resolve this issue since Avast’s “Smart Shield” remains active until Avast has been uninstalled.
HOW TO UNINSTALL AVAST ANTIVIRUS ON A TABLET ANDROID
This happens with every browser on Windows, Android and iOS (not certain about Safari, so to be safe assume it is vulnerable too). Based upon news reports from reliable sources such as PC Magazine, Motherboard and we have learned that Avast’s browser extensions and its Web Shield have been “harvesting user data to supply to marketers”.