mchain
19
Well, certainly the alternative is much less palatable. If one does not mind fixing damage left behind by malware attacks and consequent system changes, then the best course of action would be to run system without an a/v program of any sort, and any issues of unknown or unexplained connections would then be moot, and it would not matter what a/v one ran in the past, as they are no longer present or running.
No program - no connections.
imo, I’d rather have a team of people working for me that get up every day and strive to meet the mission goals of protecting my system by blocking malware from ever entering my system, rather than have me deal with manually disinfecting my system every day of malware garbage. Seems this may be an issue of not understanding why avast! does what it does; many different strategies are used to enable malware to be blocked at first detection. If such is blocked straight-away, then one does not need to worry about further infections following the initial infection, as the first never got a foothold in the system.
How that initial blocking is done here at avast! is by using those connections created by avast! you seem to object to. Removing that active protection by disabling the active connection links would seem to lower the basic threshold of protection, and thus could not increase it.
Is internet bandwidth (or the lack thereof) the real issue here?