Win XP Home
Avast Home 4.8.1296
Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall
I can only think of two times I have ever seen the “Network Shield” in action and yesterday was one of them.
I wanted to see if Yahoo flagged a site as potentially harmful, since I knew that it had been causing redirects to a site related to Anti-Spyware 2009. I normally use Google and FF 3.05 with NoScript and do recall having clicked through the Google warning to receive the FF “Attack Site” page. I did not force the issue and go directly to the site, as I only wanted to see the details on the warning page.
Then, I went through Yahoo Search to see if Yahoo flagged the site. As soon as the search results page appeared, Avast alerted me that the Network Shield blocked Anti-spyware 2009. Is this just a coincidence that Network Shield (that rarely ever displays itself to me) appeared on the search results page? Or … does Avast actually check the links to the sites on the search results page? Or … should I suspect that I had something on my PC already that just happened to “call out” at that point?