Introduction

Most antimalware and security solutions that I have seen, are often set to share whatever suspicious code or data information is found with the product solutions developer and the owner. A so called cloud feature, it's been there for years and it's actually nothing new. This gives the security product developers data to work with and to constantly improve their products. So basically it's all in all, a good thing.

When implementing and installing these antimalware solutions, they rarely or never ask you whether or not you want to share this kind of information. You might have corporate information and other reasons why you would not want to take the risk and share data.

Now sharing is a good thing, if we can make sure that the security solution we have invested in is constantly being improved.

But we should always be made aware of it so that we can make the decision ourselves. A best guess why some product leaves this default on without question, might be because people tend to...