Hi, I'm one of the developers on Download Insight. I'll see if I can answer these questions.
Download Insight watches for executable files downloaded by Internet Explorer and Firefox. When the download has completed the hash of the file is computed and used as a query to our cloud servers. The file is never sent. If you don't have an Internet connection we won't be able to connect to the cloud, but you won't be able to download the file either. Programs that are already on the machine before the product is installed will not be checked when they are launched.
When you launch a file that was "watched' by Download Insight we make another query to our cloud to see if the data has changed. If we get no response from the cloud, say you have no Internet connection, we assume the file is unknown and will show an alert. If we are able to query and the file is now "Bad" we don't take automatic action but show "Bad"-type information on the alert.
I am investigating taking automatic action on these "Bad" files, so this behavior may change in a later beta build.
Hi, I'm one of the developers on Download Insight. I'll see if I can answer these questions.
Download Insight watches for executable files downloaded by Internet Explorer and Firefox. When the download has completed the hash of the file is computed and used as a query to our cloud servers. The file is never sent. If you don't have an Internet connection we won't be able to connect to the cloud, but you won't be able to download the file either. Programs that are already on the machine before the product is installed will not be checked when they are launched.
When you launch a file that was "watched' by Download Insight we make another query to our cloud to see if the data has changed. If we get no response from the cloud, say you have no Internet connection, we assume the file is unknown and will show an alert. If we are able to query and the file is now "Bad" we don't take automatic action but show "Bad"-type information on the alert.
I am investigating taking automatic action on these "Bad" files, so this behavior may change in a later beta build.