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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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