Regardless of what you choose, act at your own risk. Therefore, we do not recommend using Avast products it is better to focus on other, safer brands: PCMatic, McAfee, TotalAV, Norton, or Bullguard. Even the users themselves noticed that they could not disable surveillance of their activity in the Avast apps. Many tech magazines, which conducted their investigations, accused Avast of selling users’ data. Even the largest IT companies, including Microsoft and Google, buy such information. In the last few years, Avast, the developer of the same-name antivirus for PCs and mobile devices, has been selling data of its users to third parties ( read the detailed investigation here).