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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: smoaky on May 18, 2010, 01:58:13 AM

Title: Auto Decide or Ask??
Post by: smoaky on May 18, 2010, 01:58:13 AM

I am trying out AIS and have firewall rules set to "auto-decide" which of course eliminates a lot of pop-ups but trying GRC leak test,AIS allowed it to run. Why would AIS allow GRC to connect to the net? (Paranoia speaking here) Wink ? Should I be concerned? Should I just go with "ask"? even though that would initiate more pop-ups? Just wondering if "auto-decide" should be trusted

Title: Re: Auto Decide or Ask??
Post by: Lisandro on May 18, 2010, 03:30:36 AM

No placebo here... Just to be better in the picture?

Title: Re: Auto Decide or Ask??
Post by: smoaky on May 18, 2010, 04:42:50 AM

huh  ???
what in the world does your reply refer to  :o

Title: Re: Auto Decide or Ask??
Post by: Dch48 on May 18, 2010, 06:35:59 AM

Maybe GRC is in Avast's whitelist so it is allowed to run?

Title: Re: Auto Decide or Ask??
Post by: Lisandro on May 20, 2010, 04:13:38 PM

Quote from: smoaky on May 18, 2010, 04:42:50 AM

huh  ???
what in the world does your reply refer to  :o

That AIS will not block the GRC tests just to people applaud it.
GRC tests are clean ones and avast won't block it just as a placebo.
If an infected file does the same job, AIS should detect it due to the antimalware signatures.