Customers are still smarting from the latest fiasco that forced Avast to disband their Jumpshot subsidiary in January 2020 (see the PC World article Update: Avast Kills Jumpshot Data-Collection Business After Privacy Concerns Mount as well as Reuter's Avast Pulls Plug on Jumpshot After Data Privacy Scandal) and were hoping these questionable business practices would be a thing of the past. I might be 'used to' Avast pre-checking check boxes in their installers to install bundled software but I'm not happy about it, and I'm not sure why bundled Google products like the Chrome browser are the exception unless your third-party partnership agreement stipulates that Avast won't be paid a commission unless the check box for the Google product is pre-checked. Sorry, but I have to take issue with that comment.

It's been that way since 2010 and most people are used to it by now, but as mentioned in previous posts here it has been on our 'to-do' list for a while to try and get that into the same accept/decline presentation as well. Their description of the Chrome precheck is accurate. We've reached out to Microsoft suggesting that they might want to check their homework. They have the correct screenshot of the AVG offer in the Technical Information section (same layout as above with two separate accept/decline buttons) but caption it referring to a 'preselection' which would also suggest a lack of proofreading.

Aside from calling us CCcleaner (with 3 'c's ) they have a screenshot of an Avast offer with a checkbox that was discontinued back in October of last year in favour of the transparent accept/decline on a separate page: That article seems to have been written in haste and is riddled with errors. Microsoft has updated the description of the PUA:Win32/CCleaner detection at

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