Guard in Privacy Mode
Prevents Malware Based Data Theft, Destruction, and/or Ransom Attacks
AppGuard, version 1.2 and later, wields another dimension of data leakage protection from malware based attacks that steal, destroy, or encrypt for ransom the valuable content on computers. AppGuard blocks malware attacks that coerce a software application on a PC to perform these malicious actions. If such an application, such as Mozilla Firefox, were "guarded in privacy mode", AppGuard would not allow it access to anything within the PC user’s "private" folders.
Attackers Unable to Use Firefox to Steal/Destroy Valuable Files
How do security products know if a software application on a PC is legitimately accessing valuable content? They do not, but the computer user does. When an end-user wishes to download a file from a website via a web browser to a “private” folder, or conversely, upload a sensitive document to a web server, the user simply right-clicks on the AppGuard tray icon to suspend privacy mode for that web browser, illustrated below. This takes just a second.
After allowing Firefox to access a file in a “private” folder, the end-user can repeat the above procedure to re-enable privacy mode for Firefox. Generally, AppGuard automatically re-enables protections suspended by the end-user in 10 minutes so one does not have to remember to do so.
AppGuard privacy mode default settings:
- Automatically applied to the web browsers: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome
- “My Documents” and everything within it is designated “private”, which can be easily customized by users.