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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: ky331 on March 07, 2011, 01:38:08 PM

Title: behavior shield vs. auto sandbox
Post by: ky331 on March 07, 2011, 01:38:08 PM

Forgive me if this has been answered already, as this is a large forum to search through...

Since the behavior shield is supposed to kick-in for "suspicious" behavior, it would seem to me that would be sufficient reason to have the auto-sandbox kick-in as well.

So what I'm asking is to try to understand the difference between what the behavior shield looks for and when the auto-sandbox kicks in???

Title: Re: behavior shield vs. auto sandbox
Post by: Sparxx on March 07, 2011, 02:04:51 PM

Autosandbox kicks in for a suspicious file before the actual execution of the file, the behavior shield is watching the behaviour of the file, or process and kicks in when detects a suspicious action.

Title: Re: behavior shield vs. auto sandbox
Post by: ky331 on March 07, 2011, 02:34:49 PM

Thanks.  That was simple enough :-)

Title: Re: behavior shield vs. auto sandbox
Post by: Sparxx on March 07, 2011, 02:44:21 PM

You're welcome. :)