VoodooShield logic could be improved

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RejZoR

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I've just briefly tested VoodooShield in VM with some malware and it detected it all. However, for the sake of curiosity, I've tried installing few clean apps and I found something peculiar...

Digital Signatures:
Clearly, VoodooShield doesn't know them all, but I tried installing Auslogics Registry Cleaner and VS warned me about it. Reason? Digital signature was apparently entirely skipped, all 3 internal "heuristics" were almost all the way on the left in green, but there were 3 detections from VT, all of which were PUP or adware. Is Auslogics not on the whitelist or is there another reason for not trusting it despite digital signature being there?

Add ability to ignore PUP/adware:
Noticed there is no PUP/adware control in VS settings. I generally don't like if antiviruses warn me about PUP's with on-access. I do like that for on-demand scans.

Would it be possible to add to VS ability to allow PUP/adware by default by VS reading VT detections and if large majority of them have PUP/adware in the name, if user decided to allow these, to simply not block anything. If stuff can be removed with Programs and Features panel, I see no problem. I do see a problem when I have to make decisions for everything myself and that becomes annoying and time consuming.

Was using AutoPilot mode.
 

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