I think this is good news
I think giving access to your PC to all these third party "antivirus" companies is a bad thing.
Limit exposure by not letting third party companies have low level access.
I'd prefer to keep it "in-house".
The whole "Meltdown" fiasco has shown that several of these companies have been digging into protected memory.
Some of these "security" companies have even partnered with big data "analytic" companies.
Avast for example purchased Jumpshot, which according to Avast's official website is: "a big data and advanced marketing analytics platform designed to provide insights into people’s online behavior" and at the same time purchased software to scan the users social media.
https://www.avast.com/en-us/history
Makes you wonder.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
