Online Shield - what is it?
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AVG Online Shield is a type of a real-time resident protection. It consists of two features - Web protection and Instant Messaging protection.
Web protection scans the downloaded files even before these are downloaded to your computer. This is done by scanning communication on ports TCP 80, 3128 and 8080 by default.
Instant Messaging protection verifies the files sending via instant messaging are virus free. Currently AVG supports the ICQ, MSN and Yahoo! protocols.
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