I know this is like HiJacking a little i think… but I would like to see that avast popups and says something like “Hey The Program You Are downloading Might be unsafe”
And have avast put a reminder like in the popup that says remember .exe filetypes can have viruses in them.
It would be nice like if a user clicks Woah wait i change my mind i don’t want to download this the program… then avast would delete it. Its more security online. It would stop a virus.
What can I say…
Yes, of course, that’s exactly what we’re doing, millions times every day.
On the other hand, we obviously don’t want to alert on any non-malware files (i.e. we don’t want to generate any false positives).
It seems to me that the OP would actually want us to increase the FP rates. Or I’m completely missing something.
“Imagine if XXX was a virus” - can be said about any executable (and not only executables, actually).
Sorry, but if you’re looking for a whilelisting solution (i.e. something that allows you to run only programs you already allowed, and no other), then it’s not avast!.