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Enable
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
).
7.5.3. Search-Shield
When searching Internet with the
Search-Shield
on, all search results returned from
the most popular search engines (
Google, Yahoo!, WebHledani, Yandex, Baidu, Bing,
AOL, AltaVista, EarthLink, Ask, Seznam, eBay, Twitter, Digg, and SlashDot
) are
evaluated for dangerous or suspicious links. By checking these links and marking the
bad links, the
AVG Link Scanner
warns you before you click on dangerous or
suspicious links, so you can ensure you only go to safe websites.
While a link is being evaluated on the search results page, you will see a graphic sign
next to the link informing that the link verification is in progress. When the evaluation
is complete, the respective informative icon will be displayed:
The linked page is safe (
this icon will not be displayed for safe Yahoo! search
results
).
The linked page does not contain threats but is somewhat suspicious (
questionable in origin or motive, therefore not recommended for e-shopping
etc.
).
The linked page can be either safe itself, but containing further links to
positively dangerous pages; or suspicious in code, though not directly employing
any threats at the moment.
The linked page contains active threats! For your own safety, you will not be
allowed to visit this page.
The linked page is not accessible, and so could not be scanned.
Hovering over an individual rating icon will display details about the particular link in
question. Information include additional details of the threat (if any), the IP address of
the link and when the page was scanned by AVG:
