What to do in Italy from 25 October 2018? (Current Beta Expired on that dat

[Massimiliano]

Malwarebytes for iOS beta 1.1.0 (5.8) ends in a month. Since it is not yet present in Italy on the AppStore for the reasons already mentioned in other posts, how should we behave with regard to starting from 25 October 2018?
Is there a release in Italy or will a new beta come out giving a further 90 days trial?
Thank you

[treed]

There will be a new public beta before that one expires.

As for when we can expand into other countries, that depends entirely on when we can get the phone number database up to speed for the countries in question. Currently, the database is mostly +1 numbers, and does not provide adequate protection for countries not using phone numbers in the North American Numbering Plan.

[Massimiliano]

Correct me if I'm wrong:
at the moment in Italy just keep active web protection and adblocker, right?
Can Call Protection and SMS Protection be deactivated in my country?
Thank you
A greeting
Massimiliano

[treed]

You can certainly keep those features active if you like, but it's up to you. It depends on whether you get a lot of calls or texts from US-based scammers. We would certainly appreciate it if you would report any scam calls you get, though! Currently, there is no way to enter an Italian phone number in the app for reporting, but you can report here so we can investigate.

In fact, I'd definitely be interested in hearing more in general about the kinds of scam calls and texts you receive in Italy!

[Massimiliano]

Ok! Then I keep the features active and if I had to receive scam / phishing calls / sms I will report them on the Malwarebytes iOS forum. At the moment I'm receiving emails like this. It would not hurt a filter for emails.

[treed]

Unfortunately, filtering e-mails is out of scope for this app. There's no way to do that without actually connecting to your e-mail server and reading all your e-mails, which can have a heavy toll on battery life and data usage. This is better done with IMAP accounts on the server or on your desktop computer, but does mean you will see some spam when checking mail on your iPhone.

Unless Apple provides APIs for Mail - which seems unlikely, given their recent stance on privacy protection - it's not really something we feel very comfortable with.

[Massimiliano]

I have received the beta 1.1.1 right now. Thanks.

Thank you very much for your always useful support on both iOS and MacOS.

A greeting.

Massimiliano