{"id":164,"date":"2008-07-12T03:18:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T09:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2008-07-16T00:53:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T06:53:08","slug":"get-rid-grey-icon-avgfree80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/archives\/2008\/07\/12\/get-rid-grey-icon-avgfree80","title":{"rendered":"Get Rid Of The Grey Icon When Disabling LinkScanner in AVG Free 8.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love using <a href=\"http:\/\/free.avg.com\/\">AVG Free<\/a>. It is a free antivirus that works. Yet when version 8.0 came out, a new service was added called LinkScanner. LinkScanner will try to identify sites that contain malware for you before you visit them. I did not need this service since I use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getfirefox.com\">Firefox<\/a>, which has this service build in. So, as the type of person who tries to keep unnecessary services turned off, I disabled LinkScanner. If you do this you get a warning saying that you may not be fully protected. Another side effect is that the icon in the system tray turns grey and has an exclamation point. <\/p>\n<p>Well this icon started to annoy me. Even though I was up to date on all my virus definitions and software patches, the icon was alerting me to turn on LinkScanner. I searched for weeks trying to find a solution for this. Finally, I found out a way to get rid of the grey icon with exclamation point and return it to a normal state. <\/p>\n<p>Open AVG and goto:<br \/>\nTools-> Advanced Settings-> Ignore default conditions<br \/>\nSelect LinkScanner<br \/>\nPress OK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love using AVG Free. It is a free antivirus that works. Yet when version 8.0 came out, a new service was added called LinkScanner. LinkScanner will try to identify sites that contain malware for you before you visit them. I did not need this service since I use Firefox, which has this service build [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hide_page_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4urv-2E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}