Sensitivity, P2P provider and new features

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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  1. From time to time, we can read some users wishes about the sensitivity of on-access scanning.

  2. The P2P provider monitors the activity of some applications that share folders and files.
    If I’m not wrong, it will monitor even the ‘non standard’ folders, i.e., if you choose a different folder for downloading into the P2P application, avast! will ‘read’ this information (Windows Registry) and monitors the downloading.
    Am I wrong?

  3. Why we cannot join this?
    I mean, some folders are scanned (on-access) with High sensitivity and others only at Normal level (or even just the executables are scanned, the first page of settings into the Standard Shield).
    We know that, exactly the same behavior with P2P occurs in virus infection: some folders are the ‘bad guys’: Windows, System32, System Restore, Temporary folder, etc.

  4. This way, large folders with large archive files could be opened easily, we can use Windows Explorer or other applications without that strengh of resources and the security won’t be severelly affected, imho.

Why not Alwil team? ;D

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pk asked me some other informations…
But, co’mon, have all avast users lost this thread?
No comments? No guesses?

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I would be happy to help, unfortunately I don’t use any P2P programs or the P2P provider.

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Well, you don’t have too.
I think on different sensitivity for different folders.
On-access scanner could monitors: the executables, the read/open files, the modified, the created ones…

No folders are scanned with high-sensitivity if you don’t set this into avast.
Setting High sensitivity, all folders are scanned this way.

If the P2P provider monitors a specific folder and will scan the archive files that the user download, why don’t we have just a possibility to set:
Folder > What to scan
C:\Windows\Temp > archive scanning, read, new files
C:\My folder > only executables (Normal sensitivity)
D:\Users > archive scanning, modified files

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Co’mon… Anybody?! :frowning:

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It’s not fare… I do not receive help…
Any suggestion from Alwil team…?
I’m just posting to bring back this thread again to the live ones… :cry:

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Hello technical,

I nor even understood your question… hehehe…

May you ask it again?

Maybe I can help :slight_smile:

Thanks for your time,

Elminster

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Let’s try again…

The Standard Shield sensitivity is the same for all folders in the computer.
Some folders have more probability to receive an infected file: the P2P store folder, the Internet Temporary folder (cache), System Restore…
Some users have troubles with the resource consumption at High sensitivity (open/created/modified files scanned).
Can’t we set special folders at High sensitivity and other folders with lower protection?

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Hello,

I got the idea… Yeah… It would be a nice feature… Only expend resource where its more necessary… But I dont believe that Avast have this feature unfortunatly… But I believe its possible to do…However I dont know if would change deeply the logic used to program avast… :frowning:

I think its not possible to do it with the current version o Avast…(Ate least the free one) I dont know the professional one that seems more configurable…

Thanks for your time,

Elminster

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I don’t really know Technical how Avast works with IM.
But I would expect it is scanning if some files are received from your friends?

I used to use Kazaa/lite, but not lately, only to find some music, admitted it was illegal.

Does it really take so much computer resources to run Avast with those programs? I have all the shields in “Normal” setting, not high.

Best regards,
Jarmo

PS
I do get sometimes a prompt and a systray icon from avast when my connection is not working with Yahoo messenger.

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Heh, I was thinking of trying DC++, but really HATED the idea that i would need to share my bandwidth to be a good “member”. To waste my bandwidth that someone else might need for better uses :frowning:
I mean for better uses than p2p.