What is it and should I allow or deny it?
Its a alert from the new HIPS Module 
Can you give us the full path of the file please ?
In all honesty if you can’t answer that you shouldn’t have HIPS enabled, because it always asks you to decide on an action (you have to have a reasonable knowledge of your system and what is going on in it). That is why the default settings are not enabled
If you want to do use HIPS I would suggest not enabling the ‘Monitor the system for unauthorised modifications.’
@DavidR: Sometimes its automated its not always asking
I will try to explain this to you, dear -midnight, so you can also enjoy HIPS and understand what it does and better even what it does not do for the Avast user. ;D All technical issues can also be explained in a way to inexperienced netizens, so they might grow in their experience and may enjoy their gained insights in a proper way. So shall we give this a try, as you already came a long way after you joined the official avast user forums, and I bear witness of this.
It is a warning that Avast has not seen this software run before, you can allow it when you know that it is above board. What were you doing exactly just before or during that this HIPS alert appeared? You could say I was updating a program I checked before but Avast has never seen it.
Avast HIPs does this for first time when a particular new program or program update is run or is to run. When Avast HIPS has established it as OK, it will be further left to run without a second alert.
The above extra security procedure is an additional security measure, like when you get a PUP alerrt when you have set avast to alert for PUPs (not set as by default).
I have the PUP alert set for ON, because I do not like potential unwanted programs (adware for instance).
I would keep HIPs and come to get familiar with the workings thereof, which is not too complicated when you are given the A to Z to work it right. Another lesson learned, another insight gained, and so we learn everyday, isn’t it.
polonus
I don’t know anything about Hips and I didn’t enable it.
polonus,
I was taking a nap, got up, came into my office and the HIPs Warning was on my screen. I don’t know if I should deny or allow.
So disable it
Where can I find it?
Settings>Active protection>File-system Shield>Sensitivity at the bottom
Thank you.
Even more of a reason to leave it set on the defaults (off). But in this instance which I was responding to there was an interactive popup.
I have a firewall and winpatrol plus which have HIPS or HIPS like behaviour, so I’m more than covered.