Thanks but my question is:
a user wanting to utilize proxomitron or similar product would be out of gas if they also wanted to use web shield on an older win98 machine... is this statement correct?
Not correct. Either setup proximotron to use webshield as upstream proxy, as suggested in your message, or setup webshield to use proximotron as its upstream proxy:
http://www.avast.com/eng/my_isp_wants_me_to_u.html
In winxp you can also setup Webshield to scan proximotron's outgoing connections:
http://www.avast.com/eng/on_my_pc_i_am_runnin.html
Lukor or anyone,
|Followup Q1| Is there any reason other than layered protection (redundancy failsafe) to keep standard shield on if you are running webshield since webshield is scanning all files and very quickly I might add.Reason I ask is doing some speed tests I see a 55% speed increase going from 561kbps to about 870kbps.
Putting proxo on bypass and runnning with webshield but without standard shield gets me slightly over 1Mbps
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It worked using the alternate method from the link you provided:
http://www.avast.com/eng/my_isp_wants_me_to_u.htmlwebshield is now in between my browser and proxomitron.
I set avast4.ini as follows:
UpstreamProxyHost=localhost <--- it works, is right yes?
UpstreamProxyPort=port I use for proxomitron
followed directions for terminating webshield and restarting
configured browser to use webshield as proxy on port 12080
Tested eicar.com from eicar.org and webshield caught both before they reached my laptop cache
checking speed, it does not seem to impede speed of browsing at all that I can notice at this point...
Very Coool !!!
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for some reason I could not get the other method as described by horbar in my post above, to work which puts webshield at the front end, proxomitron in the middle, with browser last to receive incoming
I set my browser to use proxy 127.0.0.1 port 8080
maybe this needs to be localhost (should make no difference)
Then went into proxomitron under edit filters clicked on Proxy and added the external proxy:
localhost:12080
I even tested it and it tested ok
looked at webshield and it picked up my test
but when I ran my browser - not a peep out of webshield
I restarted laptop, just in case and ran my browser again
nothing...
|Followup Q2| If anyone can spot what I did wrong, I'd appreciate it.
Just want the option of running both ways in case one method may be faster than the other by some quirk.