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10.9.2.Link Scanner Interface
The LinkScanner component consists of two parts that you can switch on/off in the
LinkScanner component interface:
 Enable AVG Search-Shield - (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 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).
 Back reporting of exploiting web sites - 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.
10.9.3.AVG Search-Shield
When searching Internet with the AVG Search-Shield on, all search results returned
from the most popular search engines like Yahoo!, Google, MSN, etc. are evaluated for
dangerous or suspicious links. By checking these links and marking the bad links, the