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10.6. Link Scanner

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

features of the LinkScanner:

 Enable Safe Search - (on by default): advisory notifying icons on searches

performed in Google, Yahoo or MSN having checked ahead the content of sites

returned by the search engine. The browsers supported are Internet Explorer

and Firefox.

 Enable Safe Surf - (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 to AVG of exploited websites - (on by default): mark