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Klauwkikker

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drive by downloads
« on: May 04, 2008, 11:06:25 PM »
I'm a happy user of Avast 3.8 Home and i have the following question; Does Avast protect me form drive by downloads? AVG 8.0 Free doesn't....
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Re: drive by downloads
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2008, 11:11:39 PM »
Yes. It has Standard Shield to scan files and, before, all Internet traffic will be scanned by WebShield and an infected file won't be even saved in the computer ;)
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Re: drive by downloads
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2008, 11:29:03 PM »
Quote from: Klauwkikker on May 04, 2008, 11:06:25 PM
I'm a happy user of Avast 3.8 Home and i have the following question; Does Avast protect me form drive by downloads? AVG 8.0 Free doesn't....

Hopefully just a typo as the current version is 4.8.1169 not 3.8 ;D
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Re: drive by downloads
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2008, 10:54:56 AM »
@ Tech, Thanks!  @DavidR, Yes it was a tipo ;D
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