Behavior Shield Advanced Threat Protection

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I’m waiting for a reply in the developers forum which isn’t likely to happen till Mon at the earliest.

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+1 Yes :slight_smile:

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Hardened Mode in Moderate triggered even on legit apps just because they “behaved” suspiciously. Flipping it to Aggressive all of a sudden allowed them to run those, but blocked all that weren’t whitelisted. It was actually much more bearable mode to live with thanks to whitelisting and also more secure at the same time because it blocked everything that wasn’t whitelisted.

Or you guys just had Moderate mode entirely broken and wasn’t even using whitelist for Moderate mode even though it should have. So, I really don’t know how you have it set up now without the Moderate/Aggressive modes as selection.

I’d also appreciate the explanation of the new Advanced Threat detection feature that requires sharing with 3rd parties… We don’t know what it shares and who are said 3rd parties…

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@RejZoR,
Already asked for an answer in the Developers Forum. Hopefully we’ll get a reply on Monday. :slight_smile:

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Any update?

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Nothing yet. I’ve posted that the Forum troops are getting restless. :slight_smile:

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We are testing cooperation with Morphisec. Currently in beta only.

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Thanks Martin. :slight_smile:https://www.morphisec.com/how-it-works

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I’d prefer to have an explanation on how this whole process works both within the UI and the 3rd. party sharing and how it all affects the “Advanced Threat Protection”
I am confused and don’t see the answer. :-\

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the connection to UI is that you can check the advanced protection ( in beta) but you can’t do that if you have unchecked the privacy setting to share usage data with 3rd parties (in this case Morphisec) if you don’t give us consent we can’t sent the data to Morphisec and therefore we can’t turn on the feature. Does this explanation help?

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Straight forward and very clear now for me.
Thanks Martin,
Appreciated :slight_smile:

Edit: I have checked the ‘share usage data’ box

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The problem is, GUI doesn’t tell user that privacy setting is what keeps that particular option from being selectable…

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yes it is, but it’s still in beta and we are still not sure when into prod.

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So when this “makes it past beta” the users will be forced to share their data with both security relevant and non relevant parties, if they want to obtain the maximum protection? Is that correct?

I’m just curious how disabling the “share data with 3rd parties” option affected the overall security of a device when it was disabled in Avast 18.x

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@ soduy,

I believe Avast is one of the good guys. If you don’t trust them with your data, no one is forcing you to do so.

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no effect on security level if you uncheck this in stable version

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In my settings, Behaviour Shield, Advance Threat Protection is ticked.
Are we now saying it is also necessary to tick 3rd Party Data under Privacy?
i.e. here:

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Any answer to this yet?

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Are we now saying it is also necessary to tick 3rd Party Data under Privacy?
No. New avast v.19.2.2364 this option is gone.https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=225096.0
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we tested this feature in beta, but finally decided not to use it.