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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: data on February 24, 2012, 05:47:37 PM

Title: How does the File reputation system works?
Post by: data on February 24, 2012, 05:47:37 PM

Which file endings are scanned? exe etc or also document files??

Title: Re: How does the File reputation system works?
Post by: data on February 25, 2012, 06:54:35 AM

in addition:
does the frs only works for downloaded files from the net or does it scan and compare also local files?
So far my understanding of the feature is that if I have e.g. private documents the frs scans it and send a hash tag or what ever to the server.
Is this correct, or does it works different?

Title: Re: How does the File reputation system works?
Post by: DarkRadience on February 25, 2012, 06:59:03 AM

I am not really sure it would take some one with a but more expertise with Avast file reputation, but I would think no private or personal documents are sent to Avast, just hash number to check them?

Title: Re: How does the File reputation system works?
Post by: Charyb-0 on February 25, 2012, 08:01:52 AM

This should help explain it.
http://www.avast.com/pr-avast-software-detection-is-faster-when-filerep-knows-all-the-clean-files

Title: Re: How does the File reputation system works?
Post by: data on February 25, 2012, 08:13:03 AM

Thanks for the answers! So it tracks only executable files which are downloaded from the net! Perfect  :) :)