Hi Folks
When I surf the internet with Internet Explorer 8 or the latest Firefox, the web pages are scanned by the Web Shield (I'm using avast! 4.8 free edition) as it should be.
I recently started using the K-Meleon browser (version 1.5.3) for its much better speed and memory usage. I notice that when using K-Meleon, the web pages being loaded are being scanned by the Network Shield and not the Web Shield as in case of IE / Firefox.
I'm wondering why this is so. Im using Vista so the web scanning is supposed to be transparent, i.e. no manual settings due on my part. So ideally the scanning should be done by the Web Shield and not the Network Shield as it is in my case.
Further, given that the Network Shield is meant for Internet Worms, am I losing protection in this case because K-Meleon's web traffic is being scanned by the Network shield and not Web Shield? I mean in case of Html based exploits / malicious web pages etc, the web scanner doesnt come into the picture since Net Shield is scanning all K-Meleon traffic.
Any ideas where I am going wrong? Or any workarounds in this case?
Your useful comments / ideas are most welcome
Regards
Satish