web shield setting

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
1

One of the options in the web shield settings is: Scan traffic from well known browser processes only

I don’t understand this nor whether I should enable it.

Please explain.

Thanks

2

When checked, Web Shield will scan only traffic of known browser processes (such as firefox.exe, for example).
If unchecked, Web Shield will scan traffic of all programs - which could be a little more secure, but it can cause compatibility problems with some programs using http-like (but possibly not exacly http) communication.

3

I suggest to not put a checkmark in front of that option, unless you are experiencing problems.

4

Thank you so much for the information and advice.