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Behavior Shield Advanced Threat Protection
« on: January 11, 2019, 09:30:14 PM »
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Behavior Shield Advanced Threat Protection,  when sharing data is unchecked in the Personal Privacy area,  then that is greyed out, when the data sharing is checked, it's not greyed out,  Why does it need it seems data sharing on with 3rd parties?  and Which 3rd parties is this data shared with?    Thank you, Longtime user Patrick
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Re: Behavior Shield Advanced Threat Protection
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2019, 09:47:04 PM »
MartinZ told it uses 3rd party service to find phony processes.

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Re: Behavior Shield Advanced Threat Protection
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2019, 09:51:44 PM »
Yeah so maybe nothing to worry on perhaps, but was still a bit curious
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Re: Behavior Shield Advanced Threat Protection
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2019, 10:08:10 PM »
Hopefully...

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Re: Behavior Shield Advanced Threat Protection
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2019, 01:39:10 AM »
MartinZ told it uses 3rd party service to find phony processes.

Wouldn't hurt if they explained what 3rd party services and in what way. Till now CommunityIQ was required for advanced protection so I naturally only used that and had everything else off. Which disabled this new feature and I didn't even know about it.
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Re: Behavior Shield Advanced Threat Protection
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2019, 02:18:55 AM »
Yeah would be nice if they explained which 3rd party services, and what way for sure, who knows if will ever get an explanation though, and I didn't know about this feature til this morning when was checking out 19.1 more
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Re: Behavior Shield Advanced Threat Protection
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2019, 12:10:06 PM »
Yeah would be nice if they explained which 3rd party services, and what way for sure, who knows if will ever get an explanation though, and I didn't know about this feature til this morning when was checking out 19.1 more

Same. I don't remember it even being mentioned in any changelog for new versions... And there is no mention that this feature being greyed out because that setting under Privacy is disabled, but needs to be enabled.
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Re: Behavior Shield Advanced Threat Protection
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2019, 01:54:17 PM »
It would have to be quite new, I think. In the last version with the old settings, there was nothing like this in Behavior Shield settings.

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Re: Behavior Shield Advanced Threat Protection
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2019, 02:27:42 PM »
MartinZ told it uses 3rd party service to find phony processes.

Wouldn't hurt if they explained what 3rd party services and in what way. Till now CommunityIQ was required for advanced protection so I naturally only used that and had everything else off. Which disabled this new feature and I didn't even know about it.
Referred to MartinZ. Let's see if that gets us a reply.
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Re: Behavior Shield Advanced Threat Protection
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2019, 03:00:35 PM »
MartinZ told it uses 3rd party service to find phony processes.

Wouldn't hurt if they explained what 3rd party services and in what way. Till now CommunityIQ was required for advanced protection so I naturally only used that and had everything else off. Which disabled this new feature and I didn't even know about it.
Referred to MartinZ. Let's see if that gets us a reply.

I can't see the point of having an in-line context menu Help function if this isn't described. 

OH, OH, seems that they have already got rid of the old very useful context sensitive help (the ? icon within sections), which is even worse.

I even tried the old F1 key for help but this is just generic, the path that Avast seem to be going down is bad, things being dumbed down, removal of some functionality and configuration being less flexible.
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Re: Behavior Shield Advanced Threat Protection
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2019, 03:04:35 PM »
I can't see the point of having an in-line context menu Help function if this isn't described. 

OH, OH, seems that they have already got rid of the old very useful context sensitive help (the ? icon within sections), which is even worse.

I even tried the old F1 key for help but this is just generic, the path that Avast seem to be going down is bad, things being dumbed down, removal of some functionality and configuration being less flexible.

Time to riot?

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Re: Behavior Shield Advanced Threat Protection
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2019, 05:56:09 PM »
I can't see the point of having an in-line context menu Help function if this isn't described. 

OH, OH, seems that they have already got rid of the old very useful context sensitive help (the ? icon within sections), which is even worse.

I even tried the old F1 key for help but this is just generic, the path that Avast seem to be going down is bad, things being dumbed down, removal of some functionality and configuration being less flexible.

Time to riot?
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Re: Behavior Shield Advanced Threat Protection
« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2019, 06:50:31 PM »
MartinZ told it uses 3rd party service to find phony processes.

Wouldn't hurt if they explained what 3rd party services and in what way. Till now CommunityIQ was required for advanced protection so I naturally only used that and had everything else off. Which disabled this new feature and I didn't even know about it.
Referred to MartinZ. Let's see if that gets us a reply.

I can't see the point of having an in-line context menu Help function if this isn't described. 

OH, OH, seems that they have already got rid of the old very useful context sensitive help (the ? icon within sections), which is even worse.

I even tried the old F1 key for help but this is just generic, the path that Avast seem to be going down is bad, things being dumbed down, removal of some functionality and configuration being less flexible.

I certainly hope this is temporary, it's not a direction I would support!

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Re: Behavior Shield Advanced Threat Protection
« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2019, 08:10:51 PM »
Time to riot?
Can I watch ???

I wasn't very serious, but it's good if users tell their opinions out loud.

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Re: Behavior Shield Advanced Threat Protection
« Reply #14 on: January 12, 2019, 09:00:54 PM »
Prays It's Temporary,  not a direction i would support either myself,  Nearly Switched the Systems early this morning over to Windows 10 built in Defender, but decided well guess just telemetry with the Allow 3rd party data sharing on to have that advanced protection, so far leaving it installed, just hopefully i don't change my mind again lol
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