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10.6.1. Web Protection
In the
Web Protection
dialog you can edit the component's configuration regarding
the scan of the website content. The editing interface allows you to configure the
following elementary options:
·
Enable Web protection
- this option confirms that the
Online Shield
should
perform scanning of the www pages content. Provided this option is on (
by
default
), you can further switch on/off these items:
o
Check archives
- (
off by default
): scan the content of archives possibly
included in the www page to be displayed.
o
Report Potentially Unwanted Programs and Spyware threats
- (
on
by default
): check to activate the
Anti-Spyware
engine, and scan for
spyware as well as for viruses.
Spyware
represents a questionable
malware category: even though it usually represents a security risk,
some of these programs can be installed intentionally. We recommend to
keep this feature activated as it increases your computer security.
o
Report enhanced set of Potentially Unwanted Programs
- mark to
detect extended package of
spyware
: programs that are perfectly ok and
harmless when acquired from the manufacturer directly, but can be
misused for malicious purposes later. This is an additional measure that
