avast free-network shield

steve161 · Apr 20, 2007

Hi fellow members:

I was just reading the Avast Home Page for its free edition and came across this:

A new resident protection module was added to avast! 4.5: the Network Shield. This module provides protection against known Internet worms/attacks. It analyses all network traffic and scans it for malicious contents. It can be viewed as a lightweight firewall (or more precisely, an IDS (Intrusion Detection System)).
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I was wondering if it really can be viewed as a lightweight firewall and, more importantly, if any Avast user has an opinion about the effectiveness of the network shield. Thanks in advance
Benny

NAMOR · Apr 20, 2007

Maybe this will help a bit... See post #2.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=26142.0

Network Shield is a component of avast anti-virus and comes with the program, it isn't a firewall, so if this is what you are asking ?
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add this link and quote (post 4)

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=9875.0

A new resident protection module was added to avast! 4.5: the Network Shield. It is meant as a protection against known Internet worms/attacks. It analyses all network traffic and scans it for malicious contents. It can be also taken as a lightweight firewall (or more precisely, an IDS (Intrusion Detection System).

Network Shield protects you from internet worms that spread themselves via various security holes in your system. Typicaly these kind of viruses don't infect files but instead they attack running processes on your PC (either Windows components or some server programs like SQL Server, IIS etc.). These kind of attacks are not easily catched by ordinary antivirus during file or mail scanning. It is not a duplicate work with Standard Shield.

Basically, it covers all Internet worms. Such as Win32.CodeRed, Win32.SQLSlammer, Win32.Blaster, in32.Welchia (Nachi) and Win32.Sasser.
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