[Liskiller]

AVG LinkScanner

AVG Technologies today announced the release of AVG LinkScanner, a browser plug-in designed to keep users from accidentally visiting sites hosting malicious code and other dangerous sites. In addition to scanning web pages while you surf, AVG LinkScanner evaluates search results from Google, Yahoo, and MSN. For each link it adds an icon indicating whether or not the link is dangerous.

LinkScanner looks similar to SiteAdvisor and Web of Trust.

According to AVG, in a recent study of about 33,000 web sites infected with malicious code SiteAdvisor only flagged 1.26% as dangerous while LinkScanner blocked over 90%.

LinkScanner
How it works



Via Appscout

This post has been edited by Liskiller: 21 April 2009 - 06:03 AM

[MistaBishi]

Thanks for the share! Does it support Chrome?

[Syzygy]

Thing is annoying as; used it with AVG a year ago.

[Liskiller]

Actually LinkScanner is now standalone. Anyone can install it without installing AVG anti virus.

This post has been edited by Liskiller: 21 April 2009 - 04:42 PM

[Syzygy]

Liskiller, on Apr 21 2009, 06:59 PM, said:

Actually LinkScanner is not standalone. Anyone can install it without installing AVG anti virus.

That made absolutely no sense.

[FalseAgent]

Syzygy, on Apr 21 2009, 09:58 AM, said:

Liskiller, on Apr 21 2009, 06:59 PM, said:

Actually LinkScanner is not standalone. Anyone can install it without installing AVG anti virus.

That made absolutely no sense.

Maybe he just constructed his sentence wrongly?

[AMIRZ]

I use McAfee SiteAdvisor

[Liskiller]

I wanted to say "LinkScanner is now standalone".