How does the File reputation system works?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
1

Which file endings are scanned? exe etc or also document files??

2

in addition:
does the frs only works for downloaded files from the net or does it scan and compare also local files?
So far my understanding of the feature is that if I have e.g. private documents the frs scans it and send a hash tag or what ever to the server.
Is this correct, or does it works different?

3

I am not really sure it would take some one with a but more expertise with Avast file reputation, but I would think no private or personal documents are sent to Avast, just hash number to check them?

4

This should help explain it.
http://www.avast.com/pr-avast-software-detection-is-faster-when-filerep-knows-all-the-clean-files

5

Thanks for the answers! So it tracks only executable files which are downloaded from the net! Perfect :slight_smile: :slight_smile: