What is a Max Shield?

Max Shield is the Active Protection Shield that Spyware Detector provides you. These options can also be disabled/enabled by right clicking on the system tray icon Spyware Detector (blue magnifying glass looking icon) Click on the Max Shield button on the main Spyware Detector window to view this option. Various Live Monitoring options are described below:

IE Home Page Protection:
Some spyware program changes your Internet Explorer home page settings. For instance, every time you open Internet Explorer, the home page of some website other than your chosen one will be displayed.

Spyware Detector provides you the Active Home Page Protection. If any spyware tries to hijack your home page the Spyware Detector prompts the message
"Your current home page is being changed!
From : about:blank to: http://www.spywarequake.com
Do you want to allow?"

If you click on Yes, it will allow home page to be changed. If you click No, it will prevent home page from being changed and thus protect your home page being hijacked. It is recommended that you keep IE Home Page Protection turned ON.

Tracking Cookie Protection:
Spyware programs install spyware cookies or Tracking cookies on your PC without your permission. When you surf websites on the internet, tracking cookies can capture your browser information, your IP address and other such details.

With "Tracking Cookie protection" turned ON, whenever you open any website that attempts to access the third party or tracking cookies, these tracking cookies are deleted immediately. Thus the website(s) cannot access information about your system. This keeps your browsing habits, IP address, searches, preferences etc. private.

Process Monitor
Spyware processes run continuously in your computer's memory, using up CPU and RAM thus slowing down your PC. If this option is checked, Spyware Detector continuously scans your computer's memory looking for any Spyware process and kills any spyware processes as soon as it detects.

It notifies you with a message "Spyware exe killed". Thus leaving them inactive. Live Process Monitoring also ensures that no Spyware get installed on your PC. It terminates any Spyware at the time of installation. If you set Process Monitor to "off", it may leave your system vulnerable to infection by spyware. It is recommended that you leave Process monitor always ON to keep your PC secure.

BHO Monitor:
BHO monitoring actively monitors BHO registry entry and protects users PC against spyware BHO at the entry point. If this option is checked, Spyware Detector continuously monitors BHO Registry key against Spyware BHO database. As soon as any new Spyware BHO registry key is created, it is removed successfully. It notifies the user with a message "BHO removed successfully. We would recommend scanning with Spyware Detector in full scan mode” if Live Monitoring notification is ON. If you set BHO Monitor to "off", it may leave your system vulnerable to infections by spyware BHO. It is recommended that you leave BHO monitor always On.

Toolbar Monitor
Toolbar monitoring actively monitors Toolbar registry keys and protect users PC against spyware Toolbar at the time of installation.
If this option is checked, Spyware Detector continuously monitors Toolbar registry key and checks for each new value added in the registry against Toolbar Spyware database. It removes any new Spyware Toolbar entry and notifies the user with a message “Toolbar removed successfully. We would recommend scanning with Spyware Detector in full scan mode “if Live Monitoring notification is ON. If you set Toolbar Monitor to "off", it may leave your system vulnerable to infection by spyware toolbar. It is recommended that you leave Toolbar monitor always On.

ActiveX Monitor : Click here to know more about ActiveX
ActiveX monitoring blocks Spyware ActiveX automatically. For other ActiveX user is asked to make a decision. If this ActiveX monitoring is “On” it removes ActiveX, which are in spyware database and user wants to block it. If you set ActiveX monitor to "off", it may leave your system vulnerable to infection by Spyware ActiveX. It is recommended that you leave ActiveX monitor always On.

Start-up Monitor:
Start-up Registry monitor actively monitors the entire Start-up registry keys at various locations from where Spyware can be launched on users PC and protects users PC against spyware. For every Start–up spyware entry it removes the spyware at entry point and Notifies the user with a message “spyware Start-up entry is being removed successfully!” if Live Monitoring Notification checks is ON. If any legitimate Start-up entry is trying to added on your PC then it will prompt user whether he wants to install this Start-up entry. If the user wants to allow the start-up entry then click ‘Yes’ and to block click ‘No’

Services Monitor
The registry entries in Services registry stores information about each service on the system.
Services Monitor actively monitors all the Services registry entry which protects users PC against spyware at the entry point. If the Advanced Registry option is checked, Services Monitor continuously monitors Services registry entry and avoids spyware from getting added on the PC. For every Services spyware entry it removes the spyware at entry point and Notifies the user with a message “spyware Services is being removed successfully! ” if Live Monitoring Notification checks is ON. If any legitimate Services trying to get added on your PC then it will prompt user whether he wants to install this registry entry. If the user wants to allow the this entry then click ‘Yes’ and to block click ‘No’

Host Files Monitor: Click here to know more about Host File
Host Files monitoring option blocks spyware from modifying host file and also those sites which user wants to block. It also allows user to keep (block) or unblock site when host file get modified by any user /non user event.

If this option is checked, Spyware Detector continuously monitors the host file which blocks spyware from modifying host file and it will give notification if notification check is ON.
If you set Host Files Monitor to "off", it may leave your system vulnerable to re-infection by spyware. It is recommended that you leave Host Files monitor always On.

IE Extension Monitor:
Internet Explorer Extensions handles toolbar buttons on the main Internet Explorer toolbar or items in the Internet Explorer 'Tools' menu. IE Extensions Monitor actively monitors all the IE Extensions registry entry and protects users PC against spyware at the entry point. As soon as any IE Extensions spyware entry tries to create in Registry, it is removed and user is notified with this message “spyware IE Extensions entry is being removed successfully! We would recommend scanning Spyware detector in Full Scan mode” if Live Monitoring Notification check is ON.

Bad Website Protection:
Spyware Detector has a list of bad websites. This option blocks malicious components such as cookies, executables and active X component from being downloaded on your PC while browsing these websites.


Advanced Registry Monitor:
Spyware Detector continuously monitors several following critical registry locations from where Spyware can launch and infect users PC

As soon as a new entry is created in any of these locations, Advanced Registry Monitor removes Spyware entries and notifies the users from system tray notifications.
Since these locations are very rarely used by legitimate software and very often used by Spyware, user will be notified of any changes here and User can make a decision based on information presented here. If any of these entries are not known to be Spyware entries then user will be prompted to make a decision to allow or block cased on information available. On selecting Block, these entries will be removed immediately from registry. It is recommended that you leave Advanced Registry monitor always ON for full protection.

ActiveX:
ActiveX is a set of technologies from Microsoft that enables interactive content for the World Wide Web. Unfortunately, default ActiveX security settings in Internet Explorer can allow any web page to secretly install these controls automatically. Active X are also installed on your PC while browsing some web pages or installing some software. Sometimes they are harmful and sometimes not. You can selectively block the installation of spyware, adware, dialers, browser hijackers, and other potentially unwanted ActiveX-based software.

We maintain Bad Active X database after thorough testing by our Research team and update it frequently.

Host Files:
If you want to block an internet website from being browsed on your PC, you can use the Host file feature.

Spyware Detector can add a prepared list of websites known for bad behavior. We are always updating these bad websites and you can access them through Live Update. The host files list present in the database of Spyware Detector is added by default in the host file list of your computer as soon as you install Spyware Detector for your protection. The added websites show in this list with Tick Mark sign. They will get blocked when you or any spyware tries to browse them.

If you want to allow any such website in our host file on your PC, you can remove them from the hosts file. Select the site you want to remove in the check box and click on Remove button after you select that file. If you want to block some new website you don’t want to browse on your PC, click on "Insert" button and insert the website you want to block. Then you will see this website in the host files list select the site from the list and click on add, Spyware Detector will add this file to the Hosts file on your PC.