DavidR
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I don’t get it, as avast made the detection in both instances. So both have the same level of protection at that time.
Unless Joe is sending it to avast as a False Positive, in which case all users benefit from it. When analysed if found to be an FP then they are generally corrected very quickly. But you are saying “Assume for this argument, that both files are viruses and not false positives.” This blows that point out of the water and takes me back to my first comments. “I don’t get it, as avast made the detection in both instances. So both have the same level of protection at that time.”
The virus labs, via the CommunityIQ transmits some data (on detections and possible suspect behavior without a detection), but that is anonymous so can’t/shouldn’t be linked to a specific user.
I don’t know when the CommunityIQ data is transmitted, only submissions to the lab are sent on the next update ‘check’ not physical update. I also believe that that update check is advanced and doesn’t wait say 3hrs 59min if you had just done an update check before doing the submission.
The most salient point I can make is don’t delete, send to the chest (default action) and periodically scan files in the chest (every few weeks) and those still detected could be deleted then.