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OK, I did a zeroday malware test & the result was little inconsistent.
I got zeroday malware pack of 182 malware from malwaretips. I quarantined the malware detected by scan & executed the rest.
I tried both Hardened Mode.
Now I got the info here that Moderate is more noisy than Aggressive & so Moderate Mode will block more programs than Aggressive. So I decided to first test with Aggressive Mode & the malware that were not blocked, I decided to test against Moderate Mode.
There were only 2 malware not blocked by Aggressive Mode. Now these could be safe files but I didn’t bother to check as I only wanted to test the functions of Hardened Mode.
Moderate Mode blocked those 2 malware but it was inconsistent with 1 malware coz 2 tries were blocked but on third try the program ran.
And again I tried these 2 malware with Aggressive Mode that were not blocked by Aggressive Mode earlier. Now this was strange as now they were blocked by Aggressive Mode too. So does changing between Hardened Modes requires system restart?
By the way, Aggressive Mode checks against Avast Cloud, is Avast whitelists big & good?