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Behavior Shield

This Article Applies to:

  • Avast Business CloudCare

 

Behavior Shield is an additional layer of Antivirus active protection. It monitors all processes the devics in real time for suspicious behavior that may indicate the presence of malicious code. Behavior Shield works by detecting and blocking suspicious files based on their similarity to other known threats, even if the files are not yet added to the virus definitions database.

Behavior Shield is available for Windows workstations only.

Behavior Shield is not available for macOS.

Main Settings: Define what action your Antivirus takes when suspicious programs are detected between Always ask, Automatically move detected threats to the Chest, or Automatically move known threats to the Chest

Exclusions: Configure the list of locations that are not scanned by Behavior Shield

Adding Behavior Shield Exclusions

If needed, you can add exclusions to the Behavior Shield scans through the Antivirus Exclusions settings of a selected policy. This can speed up the scans and prevent false-positive detections.

For more information on standard and component-specific exclusions, see Configuring Antivirus Exclusions.

 

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