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you do not want the dialog to be displayed, check this box.
o
Use AVG heuristic for new networks detection
- enables gathering
information about a newly detected network with AVG´s own mechanism.
o
Use Microsoft heuristics for new networks detection
- enables taking
information about a newly detected network from the Windows service (
this option is only available on Windows Vista and higher
).
10.4. IDS
The
Intrusion Detection System
is a special behaviour analysis feature designed to
identify and block suspicious communication attempts over specific ports of your
computer. You can configure the IDS parameters within the following interface:
The
Intrusion Detection System (IDS) settings
dialog offers these configuration
options:
·
Block attackers for defined time period
- here you can specify for how
many seconds should a port be blocked, whenever a suspicious communication
attempt is detected on it. By default, the time interval is set to 1800 seconds
(
30 minutes
).
·
Block Port Scan
– check the box to block communication attempts over all
TCP and UDP ports coming to the computer from outside. For any such
connection, five attempts are allowed, and the sixth is blocked.
o
Black Port Scan
– check the box to immediately block any
