Why SSL filtering is not set by default?

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  1. loverboy

    loverboy Registered Member

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    Why SSL filtering is not set by default?

    I have not checked SSL filtering and the "https eicar zip file" is downloaded regularly on my desktop.
    What is worse is that the "zip" file can be moved here and there, into other disks or folders without any warning.
    Shouldn't a warning appear when that file is accessed or copied/moved or whatever operation the OS does on it?
     
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    Cudni Global Moderator

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    not everybody has use for that setting. I want to move zipped files here and there without AV being concerned. I prefer that the only time AV needs to act is if and when malware is detected on access.
     
  3. loverboy

    loverboy Registered Member

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    What do you mean by "detected on access"?
    Is burning "dangerous" files into a CD considered "detection on access"?

    Anyway... why "not everybody has use for that setting"?
    Isn't everybody accessing an https site need it?
     
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    if an infected zip file accessed as in reading and or expanding zipped file contents
     
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    NOD's SSL protocol filter scans the https data stream for malicious code. so far there are no cases where malicious code is being served off https websites - afaik. a different kettle of fish though is the scanning of SSL encrypted email protocols, the probability of something spreading this way a bit higher
     
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