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AVG LinkScanner for Mac

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Document revision 90.5 (17.6.2010)
C opyright AVG Technologies C Z, s.r.o. All rights reserved.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
This product uses RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, C opyright (C ) 1991-2, RSA Data
Security, Inc. C reated 1991.
This product uses compression library zlib, C opyright (c) 1995-2005 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.
This product uses compression library libbzip2, C opyright (c) 1996-2010 Julian R. Seward.
This product uses OpenSSL, C opyright (c) 1999-2009 The OpenSSL Project.
This product uses C rypto++ Library, C opyright (c) 1995-2009 by Wei Dai.
This product uses cURL, C opyright (c) 1996 - 2010, Daniel Stenberg.
This product uses Assistant-Kit, C opyright (c) 2003 Stephane Sudre.
This product uses bsdiff, C opyright (c) 2003-2005 C olin Percival.
This product uses deflate64, C opyright (c) 1990-2007 Info-ZIP.
This product uses expat, C opyright (c) 1998, 1999, 2000 Thai Open Source Software C enter Ltd and C lark
C ooper C opyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Expat maintainers.
A V G L inkSc anner © 2 0 1 0 C opyright A V G T ec hnologies C Z, s .r.o. A ll rights res erved.
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  • Page 1: User Manual

    User Manual Document revision 90.5 (17.6.2010) C opyright AVG Technologies C Z, s.r.o. All rights reserved. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. This product uses RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, C opyright (C ) 1991-2, RSA Data Security, Inc.

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    3.5 Installing AVG LinkScanner® ......................10 3.6 Installation Summary ......................11 3.7 After Installation ........................12 4. Finding your way around the AVG LinkScanner® ......................12 4.1 Main User Interface ......................13 4.2 Icon in the Menu Bar ......................14 4.3 Menu in the Menu Bar...
  • Page 3 ......................28 8.2 Manual uninstallation ........................31 9. Contact & Support A V G L inkSc anner © 2 0 1 0 C opyright A V G T ec hnologies C Z, s .r.o. A ll rights res erved.

  • Page 4: Introduction

    All basic settings have been pre-set by the manufacturer, so most of the time you will not have to worry about anything – just let AVG LinkScanner® work in the background and protect you without any effort on your part.

  • Page 5: Installation Requirements

    2. Installation Requirements 2.1. Operation Systems Supported The AVG LinkScanner® will only run on computer with Mac OS X 10.5.6 or higher. Please note that only the Intel platform is supported! 2.2. Web Browsers Supported AVG LinkScanner® is fully compatible with the following Internet browsers: ·...

  • Page 6: Installation Process

    3.1. Introduction The installation process starts with the Welcome to the AVG LinkScanner® Installer A V G L inkSc anner © 2 0 1 0 C opyright A V G T ec hnologies C Z, s .r.o. A ll rights res erved.

  • Page 7: Important Information

    Save... button and selecting the resulting PDF file's name and its location. Please keep in mind that information provided by this dialog is really brief and if you want to learn more about the AVG LinkScanner®, you should always consult this User manual or application-based help.

  • Page 8: License Agreement

    3.3. License Agreement The next dialog provides information on AVG LinkScanner® terms of use. Please read it carefully. Right now, this license agreement is only available in English language. Once you have finished reading, click the Continue button to trigger a little pop-up...

  • Page 9: Installation Type

    3.4. Installation Type This dialog informs you that your AVG LinkScanner® will be installed on your local hard drive. After clicking the Install button, this dialog appears to inform you about the necessity of your computer restart in order to successfully finish the installation.

  • Page 10: Installing Avg Linkscanner

    3.6. Installation Summary This dialog is the last step of the AVG LinkScanner® installation process. AVG LinkScanner® is now installed on your computer. However, in order for the application to be fully functional, it requires restart (as you were warned previously).

  • Page 11: After Installation

    The first thing you should see after your Mac OS reboots is this dialog: It serves to inform you about a special AVG feature called Automatic reporting of threats that you encounter while surfing the web. Details about the detected...

  • Page 12: Finding Your Way Around The Avg Linkscanner

    Click to learn more about the AVG LinkScanner® Main User Interface. · click the AVG icon that is (optionally) displayed in the right part of the menu bar. Upon clicking the icon, you get a context menu resuming neatly relevant options of the application menus.

  • Page 13: Icon In The Menu Bar

    4.2. Icon in the Menu Bar The AVG icon can be optionally displayed in the right part of the menu bar. If it is not visible, you can display it by turning on the Show AVG icon in the menu bar option General tab of AVG LinkScanner®...

  • Page 14: Menu In The Menu Bar

    The protection status is intended to show you, whether you are fully protected or not. When your AVG LinkScanner® is up-to-date and working, the protection status is correct. However, when a non-critical part of the AVG protection is switched off or inactive, you are immediately warned about the warning protection status.
  • Page 15 You can also recognize the status by looking at the icon in the menu bar, when means correct or warning status and means error. If the AVG icon in the menu bar is not visible, you can display it by turning on the Show AVG icon in the menu bar option in General settings.

  • Page 16: Avg Linkscanner® In Your Web Browser

    (Google, Yahoo and Bing - former MSN) are evaluated for dangerous or suspicious links. By checking these links and marking the bad links, the AVG LinkScanner® warns you before you click on dangerous or suspicious links, so you can ensure you only go to safe websites.

  • Page 17: Surf-Shield

    (possibly containing an infection), you can disable the Surf-Shield component in the Surf-Shield tab AVG LinkScanner® Settings (which requires administrator password since it disables the protection of the A V G L inkSc anner © 2 0 1 0 C opyright A V G T ec hnologies C Z, s .r.o. A ll rights res erved.
  • Page 18 machine) and then reload the page (a cache cleaning might be needed depending on application requesting the page because of application internal caching). A V G L inkSc anner © 2 0 1 0 C opyright A V G T ec hnologies C Z, s .r.o. A ll rights res erved.

  • Page 19: Avg Linkscanner® Settings

    6. AVG LinkScanner® Settings This dialog allows you to modify all adjustable settings of your AVG LinkScanner®. It is divided into several tabs - the General tab contains some universal settings, while Search-Shield, Surf-Shield Update tabs offer settings for respective components.

  • Page 20: General Tab

    (e.g. if another application forces AVG LinkScanner® shutdown, it will be re-launched immediately). · Show AVG icon in the menu bar - if the box is checked, the AVG icon is displayed in the right end of the menu bar. Click here to learn more about the menu bar icon.
  • Page 21 AVG alerts that you wish to be displayed. The alerts are always displayed in the middle of your screen, on a top of all other open windows, and require your response. · Show all alerts - if the box is checked, a dialog will be displayed whenever the...

  • Page 22: Search-Shield Tab

    This dialog allows you to configure some Search-Shield component related settings. · Enable Search-Shield - if the box is checked, AVG Search-Shield is active and evaluating safety of the results of the most popular online search engines. Uncheck the box to switch the function off.

  • Page 23: Surf-Shield Tab

    Surf-Shield component related settings. · Enable Surf-Shield - if the box is checked, AVG Surf-Shield is active and, whenever surfing the web, protecting you real-time from the most serious online threats: malicious, exploitive, and phishing websites. Uncheck the box to switch the function off.

  • Page 24: Update Tab

    (managed by the Update Manager component). Click the Update Now button if you wish to update your AVG LinkScanner® immediately. This also called the manual update. The AVG LinkScanner® will then search online for new update files, and if available, download these and automatically update itself.
  • Page 25 AVG LinkScanner® displaying error status. Next, there is a checkbox called Run Daily Updates at. This box should remain checked to ensure that AVG LinkScanner® updates itself automatically at regular intervals, without your intervention.

  • Page 26: Updates

    (i.e. whether an URL is dangerous or safe). AVG developers work hard to keep all these files and mechanisms up-to-date, and any new definitions and improvements of these are delivered to you from AVG Technologies servers via online update.
  • Page 27 The first screenshot shows the situation when the process was successfully finished and your AVG LinkScanner® was updated. The second one illustrates another outcome - when there are no new update files available. Finally, the third one shows update failure. There might be a few reasons for this, with limited or unavailable Internet connection being the most common.

  • Page 28: Uninstallation Of Avg Linkscanner

    8. Uninstallation of AVG LinkScanner® There are two ways to remove the AVG LinkScanner® from your computer. You can either choose the automatic uninstallation, or the manual uninstallation. 8.1. Automatic uninstallation To trigger automatic uninstallation, please click the Uninstall icon located in the installation package (the avg90LSM-???.dmg file):...
  • Page 29 4. Unload the network kernel extension by executing the following commands as a root in a terminal window: /sbin/SystemStarter stop "AVG Netshield support" If an error occurs, it means that the kernel extension is currently busy and can't be unloaded. You can still proceed to the next step.
  • Page 30 --forget=<package name> 7. If you have encountered any error in step 4, please reboot your computer. After performing these steps, the AVG LinkScanner® product should be completely removed from your computer. A V G L inkSc anner © 2 0 1 0 C opyright A V G T ec hnologies C Z, s .r.o. A ll rights res erved.
  • Page 31 9. Contact & Support All AVG products are created by AVG Technologies CZ. Please visit our webpage at www.avg.com to learn more, or for more information specifically on the AVG LinkScanner for Mac product, please visit linkscanner.avg.com/mac. For support, there are the following options: ·...

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