It seems to have come with the new update and I don’t really know what it does and it seems to be part of “Avast Identity Protection Software” and I have no idea what that is.
I got this yesterday and I am fed up with Avast changing/adding/altering things on my computer without asking me or telling me what it is doing.
I though part of the reason for AV software was that it didn’t allow alterations without permission.
Even the new icon looks red from a distance and I wonder what is dangerous now.
And it uses almost illegible Captcha - it only took three tries to get something I could read
Updating your system has never been a fun experience but in the last few years with Avast, it puts me into full on Anxiety Mode because I know something will be wrong and I’ll have to root around to figure out what has been added, changed or just broken and I’ll have to go into the system to change it. I rely on Avast quite a bit since I can’t do windows updates on my computer, so for it cause me so much stress makes me sad.
Related to the new behavior shield.
avast472,
when installing avast/starting to use it, you agreed to the terms.
One of them is giving avast permission to update/change their software if they wish to do so.
As has been told many times, the captcha is there only the first three posts.
I didn’t dispute that Avast could change its software if it wished to do so. I was commenting on their habit of changing my computer without telling me or giving the option of refusing.
As has been told many times
You might have deducted that I haven’t been here ‘many times’ as it was my first post.
If that is the sort of sneer I am likely to get, I doubt I shall be here very often. I thought it was a help forum. I was mistaken.
It’s a Behavior Shield process. Behavior Shield is a new proactive protection feature to keep users safe from new unknown malware. Devs just made a small mistake in our opinion for not calling processes what they are and instead used these really cryptic names. They are now aware of this and they are going to change this soon (in the next updates not far away).
(in the next updates not far away)
My heart sank when I read that 
I mean, by using avast!, you’re allowing them to keep it up to date with newest technologies. That’s the whole point of even using antivirus. To have it always fully up to date and ready to combat new threats. Behavior Shield is an amazing tech with outstanding protection capability. Why wouldn’t you want to have that? Aren’t you using avast! to be protected?
As for your heart sinking, why? Wouldn’t you want processes in Task manager to have meaningful name instead of “aswidsagenta.exe” ?
Agreed, more user friendly names also help determine that it is an avast process. Whilst many of the longer term avast users are pretty familiar with the old asw file name prefix (being Alwil/Avast SoftWare), it isn’t very clear for new users.
AvastBShield.exe or AvastBehaviorShield.exe would make more sense.
Agreed, it’s not as if we have to conform to the old 8.3 format, many other programs/functions have more friendly names.
For me as just a user of the software for the last few years
aswidsagenta.exe means as much as AvastBehaviorShield.exe. I have no idea what either of them means.
When I search for the latter it doesn’t seem that new.
Would:
avastBehaviorShieldWhichmonitorsBehaviorOfRunningApplicationsForMaliciousBehavior.exe mean more to you?
The thing is, if it’s named the same as in interface itself, you can learn through info and help file. If process name doesn’t really relate to anything, you can’t even do that…
Would: avastBehaviorShieldWhichmonitorsBehaviorOfRunningApplicationsForMaliciousBehavior.exe mean more to you?
No
Then nothing will, no matter how they would call it…
Surely it gives you more of a clue - Avast Behaviour Shield - You open the avastUI and go to Components - Behaviour Shield open the settings for it and click on the ? (help) icon. That tells you what it does, but aswidsagenta.exe gives you not one clue as to what it is.
However, a google search for aswidsagenta.exe may tell you it is the Avast Behaviour Shield. It may even lead you back to this topic 
So a more meaningful file name can only do so much, we can’t have a paragraph for a file name.
I actually wasn’t that interested in the name (after all Windows isn’t exactly transparent) but what it did and like the original poster, could I switch it off.
As for delving into the bowels of Avast :o By the time you have found the UI, Components, Brhavior Shield, Help there are so many windows open, all the same colour scheme and each with its own close button, it’s bewildering.
I wonder how I managed with no interchange before the last (or was it) update…
It would have been nice to have been told about it rather than just discovering a new process!!