Hello smith,
Thank you for contacting AVG Community Support.
We understand that you wish to know how AVG webshield protects the user from malicious websites or phishing attacks.
We'll certainly check and help you out.
The Web Shield helps protect your system from threats when you are browsing the web by actively scanning data that is transferred to prevent malware from being downloaded and run on your PC. Detected malicious connections/downloads will be blocked by Web Shield automatically.
You can enable and configure web, HTTPS, and script scanning for Web Shield.
The main Web Shield settings offer the following options:
Enable Web scanning: Enables Web Shield to scan all files downloaded from the internet for malware. When this is enabled, you can also choose whether to receive warnings when downloading files with poor reputation and/or to scan traffic from well-known browser processes only.
Enable HTTPS scanning: Enables Web Shield to scan websites with encrypted connections. If disabled, only websites with unsecured connections are scanned.
Use intelligent stream scanning: Lets Web Shield perform scans in operating memory only (without caching).
Do not scan trusted sites: Leaves out trusted sites from the scan.
Block malware URLs: Prevents malicious sites from opening.
Script scanning: Allows Web Shield to block malicious scripts being run in browsers and applications. This includes remote threats from the web and outside sources, and local threats saved to disk or in the browser cache. Script scanning can also detect and block malicious scripts that come from HTTPS (encrypted) connections.
We hope this information is helpfgul for you.
Thank you and keep us updated.
How does AVG's Web Shield prevent users from accessing malicious websites or falling victim to phishing attacks?
Hello smith,
Thank you for contacting AVG Community Support.
We understand that you wish to know how AVG webshield protects the user from malicious websites or phishing attacks.
We'll certainly check and help you out.
The Web Shield helps protect your system from threats when you are browsing the web by actively scanning data that is transferred to prevent malware from being downloaded and run on your PC. Detected malicious connections/downloads will be blocked by Web Shield automatically.
You can enable and configure web, HTTPS, and script scanning for Web Shield.
The main Web Shield settings offer the following options:
Enable Web scanning: Enables Web Shield to scan all files downloaded from the internet for malware. When this is enabled, you can also choose whether to receive warnings when downloading files with poor reputation and/or to scan traffic from well-known browser processes only.
Enable HTTPS scanning: Enables Web Shield to scan websites with encrypted connections. If disabled, only websites with unsecured connections are scanned.
Use intelligent stream scanning: Lets Web Shield perform scans in operating memory only (without caching).
Do not scan trusted sites: Leaves out trusted sites from the scan.
Block malware URLs: Prevents malicious sites from opening.
Script scanning: Allows Web Shield to block malicious scripts being run in browsers and applications. This includes remote threats from the web and outside sources, and local threats saved to disk or in the browser cache. Script scanning can also detect and block malicious scripts that come from HTTPS (encrypted) connections.
We hope this information is helpfgul for you.
Thank you and keep us updated.