User manual

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renew your license. The license renewal can be performed online on AVG
website.
· Number of seats - how many workstations on which you are entitled to install
your AVG 9 Internet Security.
Control buttons
· Register - connects to the registration page of AVG website (http://www.
avg.com/). Please fill in your registration data; only customers who register
their AVG product can receive free technical support.
· Re-activate - opens the Activate AVG dialog with the data you have entered
in the Personalize AVG dialog of the installation process. Within this dialog
you can enter your license number to either replace the sales number (the
number you have installed AVG with), or to replace the old license number (e.
g. when upgrading to a new AVG product).
Note: If using the trial version of AVG 9 Internet Security, the buttons appear
as Buy now and Activate, alowing you to buy the full version of the program
right away. For AVG 9 Internet Security installed with a sales number, the
buttons display as Register and Activate.
· Back - press this button to return to the default AVG user interface
(components overview).
8.11. Link Scanner
8.11.1. 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 with Google, Yahoo!, WebHledani, Yandex,
Baidu, Bing, AOL, AltaVista, EarthLink, Ask, Seznam, eBay, Twitter, Digg, or
SlashDot, 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).
· 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