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AV can spy on user activity however, so it depends. If I have AV, I assume its watching and sending back data to the AV companys servers, essentially like a RAT. Of course, you can often disable the telemetry/datasharing, but I just as a matter of security/OPSEC assume that AV= RAT backdoor essentially.


A local only Av such as Clam AV I trust, but Clam AV signatures are so bad Its not worth using imo.

I think ESET is the best, but I'd have to use Wireshark to sniff the packets to determine if ESET sends data back to its servers.