Avast whitelist

Only has auto quarantine these days. McAfee would be fine for anyone who can live with auto quarantine. But the auto quarantine, means that I only use it on my test computer, even though I have a license for it. #15 Not really. Kaspersky, Avast/AVG and many others can be configured to ask before taking an action. #16 Not really. Kaspersky, Avast/AVG and many others can be configured to ask before taking an action. But just about all of them, don't let you whitelist a file when it is detected. #18 @Ludditus I may be wrong, as it's been a while since I used AVG or Avast, but I think it will still auto quarantine some files. It's important to me to be prompted every single time a threat is detected and to have the option to whitelist it. #19 @roger_m I'm not sure they still do that. I've just go back to AVG Free after some years of not using either of Avast/AVG, and so far it always asked first if told so. In my experience, Panda and Bitdefender auto quarantine some files, no matter what they're told to do (i.e. configured to ask first). #20 @Ludditus I guess I should try it again. I asked Avast a few years about prompting before quarantining and they said they wouldn't add it.From memory, you can get Panda's real time protection to prompt you when it finds something, but when running scans, everything gets auto quarantined. However, it may be the other way round, as its been a while since I used Panda.

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In @hjlbx 's post Application White-Listing (Software Restriction Policy & Anti-Executable), he listed some literature regarding Application Whitelist (Anti-EXE). Among the literature, NSA's document mentioned that:So, in my opinion, I think an anti-executable program has two basic characteristics:User could implicitly define what programs could be executed.Any program that is not implicitly allowed will be blocked from running in a default-deny manner.I think these two characteristics are basic requirements to an anti-executable program. For example, although the Hyper-Sensitive mode of Trend Micro and the Hardened Mode of Avast could also prevent the execution of suspicious programs, they cannot be called anti-executable, because the users cannot implicitly define the whitelist. By contrast, these two products store the whitelist on the cloud server.HIPS program could monitor the suspicious activities of programs. Some of them could monitor the execution of programs (e.g., Comodo Firewall, Private Firewall, etc), some of them could not (e.g., Spyshelter Free & Spyshelter Premium), some of them "partially" could (e.g. Outpost Firewall could only monitor the execution of programs that can connect to the network).For those HIPS programs who can monitor the execution, they could be used as "Anti-EXE" when they are properly configured. @hjlbx have posted many times that how to use Comodo to emulate the famous anti-EXE programs, such as AppGuard, EXE Radar Pro and VoodooShield.But anti-exe programs still have some features that can hardly be emulated by HIPS programs. For example, EXE Radar Pro, Bouncer Beta, and Smart Object Blocker Beta could define the whitelist in the granular of command line arguments. I do not know any HIPS program could do this. Maybe MD could? I am not familiar with MD...So, could Spyshelter Firewall (SSF) be used as an anti-executable? As mentioned by @hjlbx a long time ago in my thread (Spyshelter *Firewall* can be also used as an anti-exe), the answer is "Yes and No".First of all, SSF satisfy the two requirements listed above:By checking "Auto-block suspicious behavior", SSF could work in a default-deny manner.In the Application Execution Control Panel, you can define your own whitelist.However:In the application execution control panel, you can only create rules for .exe files, but cannot for script files, dlls, and any other PE files.You cannot define a rule for a folder in the application execution control panel, let alone paths with wild chars.So, SSF could be used as Anti-EXE, but not strong enough compared with some other anti-exe programs.