Vlk,
I urge the Alwil team to retain the
Behavior Blocker feature in future releases. (I specifically chose the word 'feature,' because I consider it to be that, not a throwback.) Since writing to, renaming, and deleting files are all common characteristics of malware, BB provides some protection. Essentially, it is heuristics for on-access protection and one more layer of defense against new threats and moldy oldies that aren't recognized.
Using the blocker with the default extension list shouldn't impose an undue burden on the majority of users. Application and Web developers may be good exceptions, but for most of us there're few legitimate reasons for the monitored operations to be performed, and the frequency of those few is relatively low. Those who are annoyed by the alerts can trim the extension list or disable BB altogether.
Again, please don't eliminate this feature. Some of us truly appreciate it. By the way, adding a rules capability would make
Behavior Blocker rock, just like the rest of
avast!.
Regards,
Hornus