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8.10.1. Link Scanner Principles
The
LinkScanner
component provides protection against websites, that are designed
to install malware into your computer via the web browser or its plugins. The
LinkScanner
technology consists of two features,
AVG Search-Shield
and
AVG
Active Surf-Shield
:
·
AVG Search Shield
contains list of websites (
URL addresses
) which are known
to be dangerous. When searching Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Baidu, Altavista, or
Yandex, 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
). Also if you type some address directly into your
browser, click a link on any website or e.g. in your e-mail, it is checked
automatically and blocked if necessary.
·
AVG Active Surf-Shield
scans the contents of the websites you are visiting,
regardless of the websites address. Even if some website is not detected by
AVG 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
AVG Active Surf-Shield
once you try to visit it.
Note:
AVG Link Scanner is not intended for server platforms!
8.10.2. 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
).
