AVG AntiVirus 2013 User Manual download pdf (Page 62)

In the Web Protection dialog you can edit the component's configuration regarding the scan of the website

content. The editing interface allows you to configure the following elementary options:

Enable Web protection - this option confirms that the Online Shield should perform a scan o the

www page content. Provided this option is on (by default), you can also switch these items in/off:

o Check archives - (off by default): scan the content of archives possibly included in the www

page to be displayed.

o Report Potentially Unwanted Programs and Spyware threats - (on by default): check to

activate the scanning for spyware as well as for viruses. Spyware represents a questionable

malware category: even though it usually represents a security risk, some of these programs

can be installed intentionally. We recommend that you keep this feature activated as it

increases your computer security.

o Report enhanced set of Potentially Unwanted Programs - (off by default): mark to detect

extended package of spyware: programs that are perfectly ok and harmless when acquired

from the manufacturer directly, but can be misused for malicious purposes later. This is an

additional measure that increases your computer security even more, however it may block

legal programs, and is therefore switched off by default.

o Use heuristic analysis - (on by default): scan the content of the page to be displayed using

the heuristic analysis method (dynamic emulation of the scanned object’s instructions in a

virtual computer environment).

o Enable thorough scanning (off by default) - in specific situations (suspicions about your

computer being infected) you may check this option to activate the most thorough scanning

algorithms that will scan even those areas of your computer that rarely get infected, just to be

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AVG AntiVirus 2013 User Manual Page 62