AOL AVS WebShield

Hello everyone

It seems that though AOL claims to have Kaspersky WebShield removed from the program, AVS still acts as a HTTP proxy for the browser. See the attached image...

Any comments?

 

Welcome tilkov,

These connections are used by the mail scanner, not the http one .


nicM

 

Hm, this is strange... AVS should proxy ports 110 and 25 for mail scanning. Or maybe the program is monitoring web-based mail services as well?

Also... the ammount of bytes transferred from the same site reported by the firewall for AVS and Firefox are different.

I am wondering what AVS is doing opening the same connections as my browser ...

 

Yes, I noticed that. If I try to block AVS then the web pages cannot be loaded.

 

It's true, because when you go to Settings > Protection > Untick Enable Protection, it says that there are some open connections... See screenshot.

So it seems to be some kind of proxy, but does it scan incoming files?

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/723/semttulocb9.th.jpg

 

Hello. I just want to add that I posted in the other AOL KAV Thread here, that when I unenabled E-Mail protection it gave the same message about ports open. I did it twice, and it read 6 ports the first time, but only 1 the second time. Anyway that's my 2 cents. Thanks