The future of avast protection

[medway01]

The idea is to isolate things like browsers from your main system so anything nasty coming in through a browser does not have any way to gain access to your computer and alter files and infect. Everything inside the sand box is in theory isolated from the Operating system and the files on your computer.

Vlk is saying that according to the executable behavior, it could be isolated in the sandbox automatically, preventing it to do any harm to your computer.

That makes things more clear to me, thanks. I was thinking along the lines of a normal manual sandbox, one where you chose what program you wanted to run inside a sandbox. I need to read up more on the idea :-)

[Lisandro]

The first post of this thread asked for automatic sandboxing of every "unknonw" (not whitelisted) executable.
avast is proposing the automatic sandboxing only of the suspicious files analyzed by the behavior shield on version 6.

[ArminPasalic!]

The first post of this thread asked for automatic sandboxing of every "unknonw" (not whitelisted) executable.
avast is proposing the automatic sandboxing only of the suspicious files analyzed by the behavior shield on version 6.

So that means:

-I download a antivirus.exe
-ITS NOT WHITELISTED(Unknown) by Alwil
-When I try to run it/when it gets downloaded to my PC it gets AUTOMATICALLY SANDBOXED
-Then Behavior Shield will analyze the behavior

Is it according to this??? or..?

[Lisandro]

-When I try to run it/when it gets downloaded to my PC it gets AUTOMATICALLY SANDBOXED

Not your PC but the antivirus.exe file is run sandboxed.

[ArminPasalic!]

Okay, now I understand better.

[cinchez]

@Topic

Of course yes..

The more security, the more protection avast! gives to all users..^^
At the very least, it protects those users who dont often mess with their AV's settings..

-AnimeLover^^

[T-RHex]

Avast 6.0 will feature the in-the-cloud heuristics based on the age/prevalence data (as suggested above by sded)

Please forgive me if I've missed the obvious (I've read back through many pages) but can someone explain what "in-the-cloud heuristics" means in this context?  Is it used to download a whitelist, or to check a file signature, or is the entire file actually uploaded and scanned "in the cloud"?

[.: L' arc :.]

 Maybe, Autorun Immunization Feature would also be good for v6. <to eliminate the need to detect autoruns again and again>

[gentle4ug]

The big question I have regarding anything "in the cloud" revolves around bandwidth useage.  The affect on dialup users and those of us forced into wirelss limited data plans could be adversely affected.  I would hate to see the bandwidth used exceed what is currently needed for the daily updates.

[Lisandro]

The big question I have regarding anything "in the cloud" revolves around bandwidth useage.  The affect on dialup users and those of us forced into wirelss limited data plans could be adversely affected.  I would hate to see the bandwidth used exceed what is currently needed for the daily updates.

Cloud should be always optional, not forced. Don't worry.

[Lisandro]

A lot of information about the version 5.1 of next days.
http://www.zdnet.com/photos/image-gallery-introduction-to-avast-antivirus-version-51/450981?tag=content;get-photo-roto

[Asyn]

A lot of information about the version 5.1 of next days.
http://www.zdnet.com/photos/image-gallery-introduction-to-avast-antivirus-version-51/450981?tag=content;get-photo-roto

Thanks for the very interesting link, Tech..!!
asyn

[Onix]

Thanks for the link. Have a look at the last screenshot: "...with the beta to be released in September, 2010."

[SafeSurf]

It's better for the Avast Lab to work out the bugs prior to releasing the product to the public/companies/corporations, so it looks like the date is delayed.

[Dch48]

I'm not happy that it says it uses .NET 4 and Silverlight. Is that for all versions or just the business one?