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10.7. Link Scanner
The
LinkScanner settings
dialog allows you to switch on/off the elementary features
of the
LinkScanner
:
·
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
- (
on by default
): mark this
item to allow back reporting of exploits and bad sites found by users either via
AVG Active Surf-Shield
or
AVG Search-Shield
to feed the database collecting
information on malicious activity on the web.
