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8.5. Link Scanner

The Link Scanner settings dialog allows you to switch on/off the two elementary

features of the Link Scanner:

 Enable AVG Search Shield - (on by default): advisory notifying icons on

searches performed in Google, Yahoo, MSN or Baidu having checked ahead

the content of sites returned by the search engine. The browsers supported

are Internet Explorer and Firefox.

 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 exploited websites to AVG - (on by default): 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.