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8.11.2. Link Scanner Interface
The
LinkScanner
component consists of two parts that you can switch on/off in the
LinkScanner component
interface:
The
LinkScanner
component interface provides a brief description of the component's
functionality and information on its current status (
LinkScanner component is active.
).
Further, you can find the information on the latest
LinkScanner
database version
number (
LinkScanner Version
).
In the bottom part of the dialog you can edit several options:
·
Enable
AVG Search-Shield
- (
on by default
): advisory notifying icons on
searches performed with Google, Yahoo!, WebHledani, Yandex, Baidu, Bing,
AOL, AltaVista, EarthLink, Ask, Seznam, eBay, Twitter, Digg, or SlashDot:
having checked ahead the content of sites returned by the search engine.
·
Enable
AVG Active Surf-Shield
- (
on by default
): active (
real-time
)
protection against exploitive sites as they are accessed. Known malicious site
connections and their exploitive content is blocked as they are accessed by
the user via a web browser (
or any other application that uses HTTP
).
·
Enable reporting of detected threats to AVG
- mark this item to allow back
reporting of exploits and bad sites found by users either via
Safe Surf
or
Safe
Search
to feed the database collecting information on malicious activity on the
web.
