If you want to test if your shield is working, you may use the Panda EICAR testing virus:
http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/work/
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?
I'll read the help manual but also I'm noticing that IM scanning is doing nothing - while enabled and doing IM, does this need to go through some special proxy config also...
I think I found the answer here:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=11702.0________________________
horbar
Jr. Member
Re: Web Shield doesn't work
« Reply #10 on: March 03, 2005, 10:20:06 AM »
....o.k... .I did the following :
Proxomitron works as proxy over Port 8080 and this Port
has to be set in: firefox/connection settings, set proxy 127.0.0.1 / port 8080.......and because Proxomitron offers the additional possibility to use a "extern proxy", where is to set :"localhost:12080"....
The setting in the firewall-rule for Webshield is : TCP/outgoing/HTTP/allowed......and so Webshield works perfectly included proxomitron
that is all....good luck
horbar