Last night I was on the Internet and Avast popped up and said that it blocked a Trojan that i’m pretty sure came from a pop up ad. It said that it blocked it. when I got up this morning I had it set up a boot scan and it found nothing. I did clear the recent history in my browser and when I looked at avast it said there weren’t any infected in the reports. I was looking at the Web Shield. I just wanna make sure there is nothing else I should do. I do use the free edition but if everything is okay and handled by avast already I will probably upgrade lol.
The point of the Web & Network Shields is to prevent the malware getting on to your system, when malware is detected by the web shield it aborts the connection, dropping that element so it doesn’t get into your browser cache and possibly be run.
The network shield works even earlier and is checking the sites you wish to visit against its known malicious sites list or if there is a link in a web page you are browsing that points to a site on its known malicious sites list. If that happens the network shield clocks access to that domain.
Short answer avast should have blocked it from getting on to your system.
alright cool good to hear. My other question was it showed up in the history on the Web Shield when it happened so did my clearing my browser history like make it disappear?
The history is just that history of what was previously detected, not that it is present (like the virus chest), the history is just the contents of a text file (report/log).
thanks for answering my questions
You’re welcome.