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<blockquote data-quote="SeriousHoax" data-source="post: 1120770" data-attributes="member: 78686">In this test, I see that ESET handled everything automatically. It usually asks for users&#039; permissions for PUA detection. There are many legit tools that are can be considered to be a potentially unwanted app. Many of those are often used for malicious purposes. ESET ask for your permission to decide what to do with them. There are legal reasons too. Companies can potentially sue if an AV detect and delete their non-malicious apps. ESET&#039;s PUA even detect AnyDesk. So, they leave it up to the user. PUA detection has to enabled during installation or after.BD&#039;s philosophy is 100% automatic protection. So, they don&#039;t detect legit apps like that. In the home version they only detect what they considered to be actual PUAs which sometimes may not match with other product&#039;s detection criteria. BD&#039;s PUA detection is not the best. In BD Enterprise edition many such tools are detectedHTTPS scanning is just a term that refers to the decryption of secured HTTPS protocol and scan the contents a website loads to look for malicious contents like malicious javascript. It&#039;s a confusing terminology since it sounds like that without HTTPS scanning, AVs will not even block a known malicious HTTPS host but that is not the case. If it&#039;s a blacklisted host, e.g., malware(.)com, then both products will block them systemwide.So don&#039;t worry or overthink about it. Along with AVs, use a DNS service like NextDNS, AdGuard or security oriented Quad9 or something similar.On Mac, both of them cannot decrypt HTTPS traffic, I think. Most if not all products don&#039;t. On iOS or even in Android phone, AVs don&#039;t to HTTPS scanning. They will have to use a local VPN connection to achieve that similar to what AdGuard for Android does or root your phone. So, it is not ideal.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SeriousHoax, post: 1120770, member: 78686"] In this test, I see that ESET handled everything automatically. It usually asks for users' permissions for PUA detection. There are many legit tools that are can be considered to be a potentially unwanted app. Many of those are often used for malicious purposes. ESET ask for your permission to decide what to do with them. There are legal reasons too. Companies can potentially sue if an AV detect and delete their non-malicious apps. ESET's PUA even detect AnyDesk. So, they leave it up to the user. PUA detection has to enabled during installation or after. BD's philosophy is 100% automatic protection. So, they don't detect legit apps like that. In the home version they only detect what they considered to be actual PUAs which sometimes may not match with other product's detection criteria. BD's PUA detection is not the best. In BD Enterprise edition many such tools are detected HTTPS scanning is just a term that refers to the decryption of secured HTTPS protocol and scan the contents a website loads to look for malicious contents like malicious javascript. It's a confusing terminology since it sounds like that without HTTPS scanning, AVs will not even block a known malicious HTTPS host but that is not the case. If it's a blacklisted host, e.g., malware(.)com, then both products will block them systemwide. So don't worry or overthink about it. Along with AVs, use a DNS service like NextDNS, AdGuard or security oriented Quad9 or something similar. On Mac, both of them cannot decrypt HTTPS traffic, I think. Most if not all products don't. On iOS or even in Android phone, AVs don't to HTTPS scanning. They will have to use a local VPN connection to achieve that similar to what AdGuard for Android does or root your phone. So, it is not ideal. [/QUOTE]

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