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    <h1 class="topictitle1">Web Protection</h1>

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            <p>Sophos Web Protection provides enhanced protection against web threats. It works by
                looking up website URLs in the Sophos online database of infected websites, and then
                blocking access to any websites that are known to host malware.</p>

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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../tasks/Web_protection_general.html">General Settings</a></strong><br/>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="../concepts/Scanning_for_threats.html" title="">Scanning for threats</a></div>
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