I’m looking for an explanation of what the Browser Add-On “Avast On-Line Security” actually doing.
I see that disabling it shuts off the little checkmark where Avast rates every page that comes back in a Google search… I can’t help but assume having this filtering “feature” on has a major performance impact.
But, does turning it off effectively disable all “web shield” type protection? I still have the Web Shield on - is Avast still checking sites for malware when I access them individually?
Or… maybe more directly: are there pages that explain in detail what all the Avast features do? All I see on the web site are catchy generalized marketing slogans about the different features… nothing with any detail on the operation.
bob3160: I can’t see any way for it to work except by scanning the complete HTML stream, looking for all the links, and then doing a database lookup on each site… before rewirting the HTML stream to display it in the browser. Seems like a burden to a system-op frugal guy like me… but I’m willing to learn.
So you know where the database of “approved” sites stored? Does it have to out to Avast and look up each one? Or is that incorporated in the local database now?
The “Avast On-Line Security” browser add-on does not scan the complete html stream, that is the task of the Web Shield.
Disabling or uninstalling the avast browser security (AOS) add-on doesn’t stop the web shield doing its job.
We as ‘avast users’ are not privy to where the phishing, database is located. Many would suggest it in the avast cloud, storing things locally would probably slower accessing cloud database. The users system would likely be much slower than the cloud storage database query power.
I asked this while we were in Prague. The phishing detections is only done by AOS at the moment. The detections will be incorporated into the Web Shield in the future.
