Disabling AVG Search-Shield and AVG Active Surf-Shield
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While browsing web, you may receive a warning from AVG Search-Shield or AVG Active Surf-Shield. These two features are scanning the websites you are visiting or searching for, and provide protection against threats within malicious or hacked websites.
In the browser, there is Total Protection button (possibly Limited Protection or No Protection buttons based on the active features) which control whether these features of the LinkScanner component are active:
- AVG Search-Shield - disabling this option will stop scanning of the search results in Google, Bing , Yandex, Yahoo! and Baidu, and also the scanning of Internet addresses (URL's) you enter into the web browser (either manually, or by clicking on a link on any website, in an e-mail, etc.).
- AVG Active Surf-Shield - when you disable this option, active detection of malicious code within the visited websites will be switched off.
In case you are not using the AVG Security Toolbar, you can enable/disable the AVG Search-Shield or AVG Active Surf-Shield this way:
- Run AVG User Interface
- Double click the LinkScanner component.
- Tick/Un-tick the Enable AVG Search-Shield and Enable AVG Active Surf-Shield options.
- Confirm changes by clicking on the Save changes button.
