Network Shield protects you from internet worms that spread themselves via various security holes in your system. It can be also taken as a lightweight firewall (or more precisely, an IDS (Intrusion Detection System). ![]() ![]() It analyses all network traffic and scans it for malicious contents. It can also block by IP's.Īlso, Network Shield is a protection against known Internet worms/attacks. The plan is to actually only block malicious URLs unless they're 100% certain there's no useful stuff hosted on the domain (in which case they will block it altogether). Network Shield works on both DNS and HTTP level, i.e., blocks domains on DNS level, but in no way it's limited to whole domains only. ![]() For performance reasons, though, it tries a bit harder in case of the well-known HTTP ports. Network Shield filters traffic coming from all applications (not only browsers), and on all ports.
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