WSA protects private data?

Yes it protects your private Data as you can see in this short video like they say a picture is worth a thousand words so a video must give you much more: https://community.webroot.com/t5/Webroot-Education/What-Happens-if-Webroot-quot-Misses-quot-a-Virus/ta-p/10202 & even the Firewall will block anything being monitored https://community.webroot.com/t5/Webroot-SecureAnywhere-Internet/Why-doesn-t-the-firewall-block-everything-by-default/ta-p/5818
 
HTH,
 
Daniel 😉

Thank you for answering my question.
 
However, none of the posts answer my direct question; Is a 'monitored' process (which state was set by the cloud) blocked by WSA from stealing important information from i.e. C:GoogleDrivexxx? 
 
Or is the 'monitored' process allowed to access the data (i.e. C:GoogleDrivexxx) and upload it to an unknown host? I believe this is called data leak. Can anyone provide a clear answer on this? :D
 
I do completely understand the way ID-shield works and the way journaling works. None of those protect data folders on drive C:xxx from being sent to unknown hosts. They only protect chosen browsers (or manually chosen applications) and complete removal of malware and the changes they made. I don't really care if the malicious changes are undone when my GoogleDrive data has been leaked. :)
 
The firewall in WSA for Win 7 did provide me with the option to prevent monitored processes from accessing the Internet. This is not something you can do with WSA in Win 8. So I wonder, again, can a monitored process access C:GoogleDrivexxx and send it to an unkown host? If not, how is the data protected?

@ wrote:
Hi shadek
 
I see where you are going with that...and I suspect that if WSA saw a monitored process carrying out the action that you are describing it would construe that as inappropriate action and so block it, etc...but I do not honestly KNOW.  Perhaps @ could help us out with a consideration of and an answer to your excellent question?
 
Regards
 
 
Baldrick

It'd be great to know! I have data on my computers that absolutely cannot be allowed to be stolen. If monitored processes cannot be prevented from stealing this data I need to complement WSA with something that protects the data.:)
 
Gabriel

Thanks Dan - Shawn is out on vacation so I pinged Dan to help out.  Sorry for the delay in getting you an answer!

@ wrote:
Hello Shadek,
Monitored processes are prevented from performing certain actions, so a monitored process should be prevented from performing data theft like you described. 
 
Thanks,
 
-Dan

 
Thank you so much for clarifying! This is very valuable information I've been given. 🙂