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Web protection

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CompuClever Antivirus Plus Web protection ensures a safe browsing experience by alerting you about potential phishing web pages.

CompuClever Antivirus Plus provides real-time web protection for:

  • Internet Explorer

  • Mozilla Firefox

  • Google Chrome

  • Safari

To configure Web protection settings, follow these steps:

  1. Open the CompuClever Antivirus Plus window.

  2. Access the Protection panel.

  3. Click the Web Protection module.

Click the switches to turn on or off:

  • Showing the CompuClever Antivirus Plus toolbar in the web browser.

    [Note] Note

    The CompuClever Antivirus Plus browser toolbar is not enabled by default.

  • Search Advisor, a component that rates the results of your search engine queries and the links posted on social networking websites by placing an icon next to every result:

    You should not visit this web page.

    This web page may contain dangerous content. Exercise caution if you decide to visit it.

    This is a safe page to visit.

    Search Advisor rates the search results from the following web search engines:

    • Google

    • Yahoo!

    • Bing

    • Baidu

    Search Advisor rates the links posted on the following online social networking services:

    • Facebook

    • Twitter

  • Scanning SSL web traffic.

    More sophisticated attacks might use secure web traffic to mislead their victims. It is therefore recommended to enable SSL scanning.

  • Protection against fraud.

  • Protection against phishing.

You can create a list of web sites that will not be scanned by the CompuClever Antivirus Plus antimalware, antiphishing and antifraud engines. The list should contain only web sites you fully trust. For example, add the web sites where you currently shop online.

To configure and manage web sites using the web protection provided by CompuClever Antivirus Plus, click the Whitelist link. A new window will appear.

To add a site to the whitelist, provide its address in the corresponding field and click Add.

To remove a web site from the list, select it in the list and click the corresponding Remove link.

Click Save to save the changes and close the window.