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Offline Gopher John

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Re: Avast 7 anti-phishing protection: Is it really needed?
« Reply #15 on: February 26, 2012, 11:37:56 PM »
Okay, I have it on now in Chrome but I just don't like it in IE, so it's gone. It's supposed to show SafeZone controls if you select that, but I can't see or find them anywhere.
I seem to recal reading somewhere that show safezone controls just prompts you to think about using safezone whenever you visit a banking website that avast have heard of in a normal browser.

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Re: Avast 7 anti-phishing protection: Is it really needed?
« Reply #16 on: February 26, 2012, 11:47:14 PM »
Okay, I have it on now in Chrome but I just don't like it in IE, so it's gone. It's supposed to show SafeZone controls if you select that, but I can't see or find them anywhere.
I seem to recal reading somewhere that show safezone controls just prompts you to think about using safezone whenever you visit a banking website that avast have heard of in a normal browser.
Ahh I'll have to check that out
What actually happens is that you get a bar to click on in the webrep display to switch to safezone. You get the bar on every site, not just banking ones, so again, to me at least, it's useless.