I turned on pup detection but im wondering on Actions > Options if the default is good… ?
Hi!
In my opinion i think that the default actions are the worst ever. Cause, they make the cleaning or removing everything that Avast finds automatically. That’s Bad, really bad.
Just think about the false positives.
It should be ASK, every time. Then the user should have the option to change that to other options, but by default it should be ASK. As it where in verson 4.8.
I’m really thinking of changing Anti-virus just because of this. I really don’t know what else Avast does without asking.
lol it doesn’t remove but send it to chest and btw you are right better ask b4 doing something like that but
For unexperienced users I think automated actions would be better!
Sadly, without this automated actions on the otherhand, some users tend to ignore alerts and select “No action”
Yup that’s why it is better to have it for inexperienced users!
Some tend to delete anything detected and a disaster came where it can’t even be restored!!!
If it’s set to Move to Chest, does it notify you when it moves something, does anyone know? If it does, then Move to Chest is probably the best all around default setting. If it doesn’t it could be a problem. One of the first things I changed with avast! 5 was all the action settings; I made Ask the first choice.
Edit: I see there’s an option to show a notification when actions are taken that’s checked by default.
avast will tell the user what it has done and that they don’t have to do anything.
See image 1 for the alert when set to move to the chest.
See image 2 for the alert when set to Ask.
nunoleite , lol dude , chill out .
You’ll talking about things that are a minor discomfort , and your behavior is so drastic , lol , it’s all about a minor change in the settings , or you’re not used to work with those two things called ARMS ?
I’ve changed all automated actions of the File Shield to “ask”.
But I think it shouldn’t be set this way if you’re not an advanced user. The “send to Chest” is a safer option for common users.
I have a couple of questions about shield settings.
Is the Web Shield default action for Virus, PUP and Suspicious
Ask or Abort connection?
And if Abort connection is selected, does that mean the entire internet connection is aborted, or just the connection to the individual malicious IP?
Abort the connection is the default.
Only the infected connection (i.e., that particular page/site).
Ok, ok…
As i see you all agree with the default actions… And i’m being a little drastic about this, i know.
But ia have had already some really bad experiences with default options on some applications, and i really think that it should be asked to the user what to do when something happens.
I know too, that some users don’t know what to choose, but what about making an option in the installation so the user could choose the kind of experience he has.
Choose in the installation between:
- Inexperienced user, that accepts all the defaults
- Experienced user, that will be asked what to do every time, with the option to change the behavior.
or:
- Ask for all actions
- Make default choices (work automatically)
Like this on the installation the Avast will configure itself to the options most appropriate to the user.
What do you think.
@ Tech
Thanks for the helpful response. 
@ nunoleite
Your idea is not a bad one, but really, what’s the point?
Experienced users, even if given a choice at installation, will still go over every setting in order to see what that choice’s default is, and will probably tweak a few settings in the process anyway.
I am very content with the current arrangement. In fact I like being able to use the default settings as a touchstone, to see where the developers have placed them. If I could make it better, I’d ask them to incorporate an asterisk next to the default setting so that it is always easily identifiable. After a little tweaking on 2 or 3 machines, I begin to forget where default was.
For inexperienced user, automatic actions are good things… they might be confused with selecting actions. Default setting is indeed very useful for them.
However, I think avast should alert at least before deleting… one of my friends had a false positive (or real threat, I’m not sure) in his backup image file, which was too large for the Chest and avast deleted it. He got very angry to me because I was the one having recommended avast to him 
It was my fault not telling him to change default settings, but I think alert before deleting is needed…
What do you think?
Edit: Typo
I totally agree with you NON.
That’s really my point. This default behavior is very dangerous.
avast doesn’t delete automatically, Move to the chest is the first automated action, so it is recoverable. There are three levels of automated action and I don’t even think that delete is on the three options. If it is I would think it is the last option, avast only moves to the next option if the first fails and so on down to the third auto action.
However, I don’t recall the order of all the default actions, but Move to the chest is most certainly the first and safest action.
I have changed all my automated actions since there is no easy way to restore the default settings I can’t say the order of the defaults. I am no supporter of automated actions I prefer to control any action on my system, but I most certainly support the decision to have the automated actions as the greatest majority of users either don’t want or don’t have enough knowledge to make a decision on the action to take.
To that end a high number of users delete as the first action and this is downright dangerous and we have seen this in the forums with monotonous regularity with avast 4.8 that always stopped the scan and asked the user for a decision.