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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: greyowl on April 18, 2015, 03:35:08 AM

Title: web shield setting
Post by: greyowl on April 18, 2015, 03:35:08 AM

One of the options in the web shield settings is:  Scan traffic from well known browser processes only

I don't understand this nor whether I should enable it.

Please explain.

Thanks

Title: Re: web shield setting
Post by: igor on April 18, 2015, 08:45:58 AM

When checked, Web Shield will scan only traffic of known browser processes (such as firefox.exe, for example).
If unchecked, Web Shield will scan traffic of all programs - which could be a little more secure, but it can cause compatibility problems with some programs using http-like (but possibly not exacly http) communication.

Title: Re: web shield setting
Post by: Eddy on April 18, 2015, 12:39:55 PM

I suggest to not put a checkmark in front of that option, unless you are experiencing problems.

Title: Re: web shield setting
Post by: greyowl on April 18, 2015, 03:51:35 PM

Thank you so much for the information and advice.