It is only Avast that leaked a unique address that wasn’t a mail that could send, it was a forwarded address to a collection address, so it never sent out mail and only Avast had the address. I don’t know how or where, but had the leak come nearer home as some idiot ranted it would have affected all my emails. My problem is, I asked a question for Avast staff to answer and it has not been met, that to me is worse than the leaked address. Some have submitted valid points while others just pick, but that is know as forums post padding, its to gain status by getting brownie points for many posts.
That happens on many forums and is a sad fact, some webmasters remove the points gain by stupid short useless replies, but at least it shows they are alive, even if not paying attention to what is being said or asked, you see this all the time on forums.
I don’t think its unreasonable for Avast to declare one way or another regarding this subject, it has cost them business albeit small by the probable sales they achieve.
But if you look at it from this perspective, A question is asked, but not replied to, in the ensuing comments one was added that was answered but not the first. Is this guilt that is hoped will go away?
So a recap here, for the sake of the boatman who is an avid "Avast ye swabs". A unique email address was spammed, never came form the originating domain as it would leaked many such addresses, only one address was spammed and that address was unique to Avast. Others have stated this and I would put money on it that Avast or who ever runs the website intercepted it before they got to far.
So I await a reply from Avast staff that has nothing to do with boats barges or ships, canoes included.