Avast has been harvesting user data, according to Wladimir Palant, creator of the Adblock Plus extension, prompting Mozilla and Opera to remove all four extensions from their add-on sites. When the ...

Mozilla removed today four Firefox extensions made by Avast and its subsidiary AVG after receiving credible reports that the extensions were harvesting user data and browsing histories. The four ...

Big Cheeses at the Mozzarella Foundation have removed Avast and AVG products from their browser store after it was discovered that they were sending users' browser data home. If you search for Avast ...

Mozilla Firefox extensions created by Avast have been removed from the available add-ons listed within the browser's extensions management UI and Firefox website. GHacks reports that existing add-ons, ...

Mozilla has allowed Avast and AVG's extensions back on the Firefox addon store after Avast reduced the amount of tracking data being sent back to its servers. At the beginning of December, Mozilla ...

Google has followed Firefox and Opera and removed AVG and Avast extensions from its Chrome browser web store over claims that the security products' extensions exfiltrate an excessive level of user ...