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9.9. 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 in Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yandex, Altavista or Baidu 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.
