How to check if CyberCapture is working properly?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hello
What can I do to test if CyberCapture is working? I tried to tweak some settings and someone said there are a few criterias that must be met in order to make cybercapture work
I would like to ask if there is any tool or file which I can test cybercapture

thank you

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In order for CyberCapture to work, these 4 criteria must be met.

  • CyberCapture needs to be enabled
  • The file needs to be downloaded via HTTP(s) - At this moment of time no others protocols or USB moving will trigger it.
  • You have to have the Web Shield component installed “webshield to spot the download and mark it as being downloaded from a specific url”
  • Participating in the Avast Community

There is no tool but you should be able to trigger it if you find an unknown/low reputation file which hadn’t already been analysed.

There is a whole thread on CyberCapture here:

https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=187679.15

Edit : Added more info.

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Easiest way to check is monitoring the network traffic.
You should see that avast is sending the hash of a file to the avast server(s).

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As for “Participating in the Avast Community”, we know that beacause ( I beleve ) Lukas told us.
But from the Avast settings that is not clear at all.
Imo there should be a “Warning popup” when you disable “Participating in the Avast Community”.

Greetz, Red.

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That’s true but users need to know before changing default settings of the implications they can cause.

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Yes, but how should they know now ?

Greetz, Red.

( Sorry to the OP as I am “hijacking” your topic a bit :stuck_out_tongue: )