Web Shield
What is the Web Shield?
Many websites use tricks to install dangerous software on your computer. The type of software can range from the irritating display of popup advertising, through to software designed to steal information or defraud you.
Online Armor's Web Shield checks to make sure that when you visit a financial, or other important domain that you are taken to the domain you expect and not a fraudulent one. The Web Shield also allows you to block your computer from making any connections to undesired domains.
Online Armor classifies each domain as one of the following:
- Trusted – Trusted domains are known to be safe and are allowed to be accessed in any mode.
- Blocked – Blocked domains are domains that Online Armor will prevent your computer from connecting to in any mode. These are domains that are dangerous enough that they should not be visited at all.
- Protected – Protected domains are domains such as your banking site, that are known to be safe, but may be the subject of phishing scams. Online Armor uses the DNS checker to protect you from being mis-directed to phishing domains that are made to look like your Protected domains.
- Not Trusted – This status is reserved for domains associated with Blocked BITS jobs. Not Trusted entries differ from Blocked entries in that the domain remains accessible in your web browser or by other programs; only BITS jobs are Blocked.
BITS protection
The Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) is a Windows component that uses idle bandwidth to transfer data between computers. Microsoft commonly uses BITS to deliver software updates through services like Windows Update. Other non-Microsoft applications such as Adobe, Java and Google also utilize BITS.
Unfortunately, BITS can also be used for malicious purposes. The Web Shield protects against the malicious use of BITS by alerting you when an Unknown BITS job is detected and offering you the choice to Allow or Block it.
