avast antivirus web scanner

[Spamhater]

After using AVG for 4 years, I uninstalled it , due to AVG8 was using a lot of my caps. Then I installed Avast antivirus What I want to ask is , I see there is a scanner called Web Shield will this also use my cap, or is it best to disconnect it. I serious don’t want to use extra of my cap for web browsing. One thing what I like of Avast is that it picked up 2 viruses and a Trojan what I had on my computer where AVG did not picked it up at all.

 

[Asha'man X]

Hi there

I use Avast at home, and I can confirm that the Web Shield doesn't chew up extra cap (I'm oin dial up but I can still see that it doesn't do anything weird)

Basically, the shield scans traffic that comes through your browser for malicious code. Similar to the AVG feature, but it's not proactive, i.e. it doesn't go and search links on it's own.

Leave it on, it's worth it. At one stage, the network shield part stopped a worm attack on the computer before I configured my Comodo Firewall properly.

Avast rocks

 

[LazyLion]

After using AVG for 4 years, I uninstalled it , due to AVG8 was using a lot of my caps. Then I installed Avast antivirus What I want to ask is , I see there is a scanner called Web Shield will this also use my cap, or is it best to disconnect it. I serious don’t want to use extra of my cap for web browsing. One thing what I like of Avast is that it picked up 2 viruses and a Trojan what I had on my computer where AVG did not picked it up at all.

Avast was not much better than AVG 8.0 for me. It was picking up false positives a lot. It flagged three programs as a threat, which I know for def. are not a threat. The stupid thing was, it would not let me ignore or even delete/isolate... it just kept throwing up the same warnings. What good is that? I uninstalled Avast as well... using Avira now.