Avira Webguard

How well would you rate it in terms of protection?
Is there much overlap with what im using?

Im using Avira Personal, Private Firewall, Sandboxie, Anti-Phishing Domain Advisor, OpenDns/Crypt

Thnx in advance...

 

Very good.

 

If you are browsing with Sandboxie there is no need for webguard, and if you download anything it can be monitored by Avira's main guard. I consider it an extra layer if you use Avira as your sole security.

 

I didn't installed Avira's webguard,because i always open my browsers sandboxed and for more peace of mind i have Bitdefender TrafficLight extensions.

 

Back when I used it in the Premium version, I found it slowed down my browsing too much for comfort, much more than Avast for instance. So I dumped it.

 

Understandable, one can wonder why it is hard for some vendors to develop a web protection module that doesn't slow things down, knowing that it is the most important layer in some products

 

It helps a lot, but just not with all those extra security apps you are running now, an overkill frankly. You can safely turn it off in your case.