How To Turn On Mail Shield On Avast For Mac

HTTPS scanning is a component of Web Shield in Avast Antivirus. HTTPS scanning protects your PC against malware delivered by TLS and SSL encrypted HTTPS traffic when you browse the web. This feature is enabled by default, but you can disable it in Web Shield settings.

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If you disable HTTPS scanning, any malware delivered by HTTPS traffic is hidden by TLS/SSL encryption and your computer is more vulnerable to threats.

Manage HTTPS scanning in Web Shield

Avast Free Antivirus for Mac offers three shields – File Shield to scan for programs stored and executed from your hard drive, Web Shield and Mail Shield to check incoming data from the internet. This Avast Free antivirus for Mac still unfinished with bugs and in Beta stage may not recommended to run on a working system.

Avast Free Antivirus For Mac, a powerful free mac antivirus that offers comprehensive mac security protection to protect your Mac from both threats specifically targeting OS X and Windows viruses that could be passed on to others. HTTPS scanning is a component of Web Shield in Avast Antivirus. HTTPS scanning protects your PC against malware delivered by TLS and SSL encrypted HTTPS traffic when you browse the web. HTTPS scanning protects your PC against malware delivered by TLS and SSL encrypted HTTPS traffic when you browse the web.

  1. Open the Avast user interface and select MenuSettings.
  2. Select Protection from the left panel, then click Core Shields.
  3. Scroll to the Configure shield settings section, then select the Web Shield tab.
  4. Untick the box next to Enable HTTPS scanning to disable the feature.

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HTTPS scanning is now disabled. To enable it, follow steps 1-3 above, then tick the box next to Enable HTTPS scanning to enable the feature.

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