Scan Any Web Link for Potential Harm

Be ahead of online criminals by using a free stand-alone software by AVG that scans a web link for malware real-time!

With AVG LinkScanner, scan a web site for potential harm even before you access it. AVG LinkScanner runs in background and scans the links as you browse the Internet, but you can also manually scan a link in the application before accessing it.

Malicious websites are ones that deliberately install malicious software on your computer, and hacked sites do just the same, only these are legitimate websites that have been compromised into infecting visitors. So there is no real way to know whether the website that you visit a dozen times a day is infected by just looking at it.

AVG puts up the following statistics on their site:

• 100,000-150,000 threats a day seen by AVG alone.
• Online criminals set up their own websites or poison legitimate ones (even just single web pages).
• 60% of all pages hosting web threats are poisoned for less than a day, making the threats difficult to catch unless they are viewed on the actual page in real-time. This makes AVG LinkScanner essential protection.
• One in eight web users will unknowingly come across a poisoned page at least once a month.

All basic settings have been pre-set, so most of the time you will not have to worry about anything – just let AVG work in the background and protect you without any effort on your part. Get the free application here. Available for Windows XP and Vista.