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Online Shield
- 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:
Ø
Check archives
- scan the content of archives possibly included in
the www page to be displayed
Ø
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.
Ø
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 increases your computer security even more, however it can
possibly block legal programs, and is therefore switched off by
default.
Ø
Use heuristic analysis
- scan the content of the page to be
displayed using the heuristic analysis method, i.e. simulation and
evaluation of the scanned object's instructions in a virtual computer
environment. Therefore, it can even detect malicious code not yet
described in the virus database
(see
Anti-Virus Principles
).
