The New AVG Identity Protection -- Any Opinions ?

Well, not going into what is better, just trying it out

PRSC was so static (doing nothing accordint to), my son threw it away on its 64 bits gaming box,


This one is informing you via tray icon action and pop-ups it is really doing something (a lot of icon action IMO)
Seems to blacklist check installers, nice when this really works (like in PrevX now ). Bit heavy on reources though . About 4 times as many reads as an traditional AV, now WHY WOULD A SECURITY APPLICATION WITH NO BLACK LIST, READ 4 TIMES AS MUCH AS A TRADITIONAL BLACKLIST ANTI VIRUS (it has to read the blacklist/malware fingerprint data base, so that makes sence)


PLEASE ANY ONE?

 

Because it monitors the behaviors?

But just a little bit, it's not as heavy on resources as ThreatFire in my case

 

No,

Behavioour patterns are endlessly more condensed, example of behavior pattern (example good ap)

A) create process in TEMP

B) create directorty in Programs Files\

C) write to C:\Windows\system32\drivers\

D) File has ligitemate driver siging

E) write to "a startup registry"

F) apply pending file name operations

g) delete of TEMP directories

h) Reboot


Example bad app
A) creat process in Temp dir

B) creat executable in non primary disk :\Recycle

C) maniplulate process

D) service access [close]

E) apply pending file rename operations [service]

F) Reboot


Patterns are generalised behaviours, so there should be a lot less i/O

 

ThreatFire is pure behavior analyzer and blocker. And so far i haven't got a single false popup by TF. Even behavior blockers can make a mistake here and there but that doesn't equal them with HIPS by far.

 

For me, if some security tool keeps showing alerts to the user asking what to do (and ThreatFire can even be tweaked to level 5), then it is a sort of a classical HIPS.

And, if ThreatFire is a pure behavior blocker, then, what does it make AVG IDP be?

 

I think ThreatFire at level 3 (=standard) is a behavior blocker, but we are talking about AVG IP here

 

Is there anyone who wants to donate his license to me?

 

They are non-transferrable, when you buy you agree with this

 

Thank you AVG