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excerpt from "Ask Mr. EasyLanguage"
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>> That said, I suspect the culprit is a new
>>option in AVG that you must remove. This monstrosity is called
>>"Link Scanner". You must uncheck this and all sub options under it
>>during install.
I am not so sure you should uninstall this option.
It is basicaly a "first posibility of infection" protection. In the
old days viruses, trojans, bots etc. (from now on all referred to as
virusses) only entered your system by you, the user, running some
infected software on your own computer and with that, infection
your own computer.
Virusses however have evolved. Many viruses are now embedded into
web pages that you visit. Visiting an invected website will infect
your system. What also happens nowdays is popups containing
virusses. They are so smart that if you click the X in the top right
corner (close the popup) that that will actualy start the infection.
Many infections also are not noticed in the beginning. Virusses that
harm your system are not the most important infections (maybe number
wise they are, but there are more dangerous infections) Being
infected by a bot belonging to a bot network is very popular
nowdays. You will not notice it but software is secretly running on
your computer doing all kinds of things you don't want it to do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet
So doing a link scan is not all that bad to do. Sure, it will free
up some recourses if you disable it but I am not so sure if this
advantage weights up against the possible disadvantage.....
Greetings,
Henri A.
Who thinks he is a novice in computers since he has been seriously
working with computers since 1989 has several subscriptions to
computer magazines but in the last 5 years has been invected twice
even though I had virus scanners running.
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