A few days ago I wrote a story about AVG's LinkScanner causing a massive amount of additional traffic on the net in the name of protecting customers... yeah. Well, here's a quote from the original ...

Hackers take advantage of weaknesses in your operating system, your browser, or other software. A malicious Web site can exploit all these weaknesses, invading your computer the moment you visit the ...

Called AVG LinkScanner, the software checks web addresses as they are entered via a user's Internet Explorer and Firefox web browsing client, and poll's AVG's servers on the site/page risk rating. The ...

I have a firewall on my network, and my IP address is a non-routable Class C address that's handed out by my DHCP server. The Windows Firewall is also turned on. I use an e-mail filter on my POP3 ...

Linkscanner Pro does a superb job of ferreting out sites defaced with dangerous hacker code, but for complete antiphishing protection, you'll still need a second program, such as the free Netcraft ...

Amsterdam, October 12, 2009 " The popular practice of embedding shortened URL into Twitter tweets, Digg posts and other social networking communications is being threatened by hackers who use the ...

Windows only: AVG LinkScanner is a free browser plug-in for Firefox and Internet Explorer that automatically scans your search results and flags links pointing to potentially dangerous content. Just ...

The Register covered a very interesting story about AVG. Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to be coming from Internet Explorer. AVG software pre-crawls search results to ...

LinkScanner works even though online criminals are targeting sites for very short periods of time, sometimes minutes, sometimes a few hours, and then disappearing, because it scans in real time, ...

A company that provides antivirus offerings for PC users is bringing a free link checker to the Mac. AVG Technologies plans to unveil a Mac version of AVG LinkScanner, a free download that scans ...

Note: This review addresses v8.5 of the software. These days, one of the greatest threats to your PC is that of so-called poisoned Web pages, which contain malicious downloads, or that may do damage ...

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