Avast Free + EICAR testfile

[Pindakaas]

I installed Avast Free , and i wanted to check if everything was working correctly.

I clicked all the tests , Avast blocked all of the tests , good result , only 1 test it did not block ( eicar.com.txt )(SSL enabled protocol https )

The eicar.com.txt file WITHOUT the SSL enabled protocol https did get blocked , only WITH SSL enabled protocol https file did not get blocked.

My question is , why not ?

Screenshot below ,



And this popped up , after not blocking it , ( green border is because my browser was in limited rights ( run safer ) ( feature of Online Armor )

[Pondus]

https is encrypted  ?   if it could be scanned it would not be secure

[Hermite15]

... expecting the web shield to scan encrypted connections ... the web shield scans mainly in memory, not at disk level, allowing it to abort connections before anything reaches the file system ... so yeah, may be read the forums, search the threads etc... this has been asked a million times already.

[Gargamel360]

All the more amusing is that of all people, this guy wants his SSL scanned?

[Pindakaas]

All the funny responses , so far the maturity.

If the txt file is not scanned , then why the other encrypted things did ?

[igor]

That's a good question... but it didn't.
If the other files got detected, then it wasn't by the WebShield; in case of the .com file, it could have been FileSystem Shield detecting the file being written to disk, as for the ZIP files... hard to say, they shouldn't have been detected unless you had changed some FileSystem Shield settings to unpack archives.

[Pindakaas]

That's a good question... but it didn't.
If the other files got detected, then it wasn't by the WebShield; in case of the .com file, it could have been FileSystem Shield detecting the file being written to disk, as for the ZIP files... hard to say, they shouldn't have been detected unless you had changed some FileSystem Shield settings to unpack archives.

I did not change anything , i only turned on PUP on every shield and disabled voice over sounds.

[igor]

So what does the detection popup say when you download those https files? Does it really say "avast! Web Shield has blocked..."?

[Pindakaas]

So what does the detection popup say when you download those https files? Does it really say "avast! Web Shield has blocked..."?

No , if i download the eicar.com file ( the SSL 1 ) it gives this popup ,



It says Malware Blocked , with the File System Shield

[Hermite15]

that's a file system shield alert (not the webshield) ... and that's a normal behavior with ssl downloads, so what's the problem

"Bestandssysteem Schild"

[Pindakaas]

that's a file system shield alert (not the webshield) ... and that's a normal behavior with ssl downloads, so what's the problem

"Bestandssysteem Schild"

What the problem is ?

Why so burned ?

I only ask some things whats on my mind , grow up

[Pindakaas]

So what does the detection popup say when you download those https files? Does it really say "avast! Web Shield has blocked..."?

And with the zip files , it says the same thing , malware blocked with the file system shield

[Hermite15]

that's a file system shield alert (not the webshield) ... and that's a normal behavior with ssl downloads, so what's the problem

"Bestandssysteem Schild"

What the problem is ?

Why so offensive ?

I only ask some things whats on my mind , grow up

not offensive at all, just asking

[igor]

Can I see the popup screenshot for the ZIP files?

[Pindakaas]

Can I see the popup screenshot for the ZIP files?

sure ( this is the SSL enabled zip file )