I just switched from AVG to Avast. I ran a scan and of course, it found a virus. But luckily it wasn’t really a virus. Some file from Panda that Avast thinks is a virus, but really isn’t.
Anyway, my question concerns the on-access scanner. I terminated the instant message scanner because I don’t use IM’s. My question concerns the Web Shield. How necessary is that to have activated? I don’t mind it scanning every web page I go to so long as it doesn’t slow things down. If it does, is it OK to terminate it? AVG didn’t have such a thing and I never had a problem.
@squeekster: I asked the same question recently. The Web Shield scans http traffic and responds before the Standard Shield, as I understand it. This gives a higher level of protection for internet traffic.
I suspect that if you disable the Web Shield, the Standard Shield would kick in and afford, perhaps, the same level of protection we had with AVG. However, I don’t think that I can notice a slowdown with Web Shield activated and take comfort from the “extra” protection.
As far I know, AVG free does not have a similar of WebShield.
To get the ‘same’ level, you need to keep Standard Shield on High level and this is not ‘good’ for performance. Better let the defaults: Standard Shield on Normal and WebShield running.
How to disable it? The same as you’ve done with IM provider.