AVG's Web Shield vs. NPF Internet Access Control

[mark4man]

hello...

my AVG suite has a component called Web Shield. Is this primarily the same thing as was found in Norton's Personal Firewall ??? I used to run NPF...& it had a function that would detect & disallow dangerous connections.

for example, it used to pop up from time to time w/ an 'Internet Access Control' window...during web surfing...advising me to block a high risk remote system which was attempting to access my machine. They were various Inbound TCP, UDP, IMCP & NetBIOS Services...utilizing any number of different ports.

Is this what AVG's 'Web Shield' is accomplishing ???

(I never see a warning window from AVG).

thanks,


mark4man

[mark4man]

UPDATE:

Heard back from AVG tech support that this function is associated w/ their firewall app.

so...next question:

does Windows firewall accomplish the same thing ???

thanks,


mf