Leo didn’t open the door. He went back to Shields Control. He found the last resort: A big red button.
It was a young man in a delivery jacket, holding a clipboard. “Package for Leonardo Hart?”
Accessing the controls is straightforward, though the interface has evolved over the years. Here is the standard method for the current Avast interface: avast shields control
He didn't sleep that night. But he did back up the Miller wedding photos. And he never, ever downloaded free software again.
That said, here are common scenarios where you might need to use Shields Control: Leo didn’t open the door
The man whispered at the door: “Mr. Hart, open up. We traced the DNS spoof back to a router on your floor. We need to scan your machine physically. The backdoor you submitted is part of a botnet that’s been dormant for six months. You just woke it up.”
His own router. The delivery man’s phone. The same IP. It was a young man in a delivery jacket, holding a clipboard
He slid the Hardened Mode from “Aggressive” to A warning flashed: “Only approved applications will run. System functions may be limited.”