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7.3. Link Scanner
7.3.1. Link Scanner Principles
LinkScanner
protects you from the increasing number of ‘here today, gone tomorrow’
threats on the web. These threats can be hidden on any type of website, from
governments to big, well-known brands to small businesses, and they rarely stick
around on those sites for more than 24 hours.
LinkScanner
protects you by analyzing
the web pages behind all the links on any web page you’re viewing and making sure
they’re safe at the only time that matters – when you’re about to click that link.
The
LinkScanner
technology consists of two features,
Search-Shield
and
Surf-
Shield
:
·
Search-Shield
contains list of websites (
URL addresses
) which are known to
be dangerous. When searching with Google, Yahoo!, WebHledani, Yandex,
Baidu, Bing, AOL, AltaVista, EarthLink, Ask, Seznam, eBay, Twitter, Digg, or
SlashDot, all results of the search are checked according to this list and a
verdict icon is shown (
for Yahoo! search results only "exploited website"
verdict icons are shown
).
·
Surf-Shield
scans the contents of the websites you are visiting, regardless of
the websites address. Even if some website is not detected by
Search-Shield
(
e.g. when a new malicious website is created, or when a previously clean
website now contains some malware
), it will be detected and blocked by
Surf-
Shield
once you try to visit it.
Note:
LinkScanner is not intended for server platforms!
7.3.2. Link Scanner Interface
The
LinkScanner
component interface provides a brief description of the component's
functionality and information on its current status. Further, you can find the
information on the latest
LinkScanner
database version number (
LinkScanner version
).
