47 news & feature articles results for "linkscanner"

Swallowed up in early 2008, AVG has burped out a newly independent version of the popular LinkScanner. The browser plug-in checks search results for safety on the fly.

Posted by Seth Rosenblatt

AVG updates free LinkScanner tool to scan the shortened URLs that are popular on sites like Twitter, then block any attempts to direct users to malicious Web pages.

Posted by Lance Whitney

LinkScanner Lite, a Web site rating browser add-on, just saved one editor's day. Here's why it rocks.

Posted by Jessica Dolcourt

AVG breaks out its LinkScanner software from its free suite to offer a free standalone product for real-time Web page scanning.

Posted by Elinor Mills

AVG 8.0 no longer downloads the home page of every search result returned by Google, Yahoo, and MSN, and now uses a blacklist to check sites for malware.

Posted by Robert Vamosi

A new, free tool to block recently compromised Web sites emerges from beta. We found it to be a useful product, but not without drawbacks.

Posted by Robert Vamosi

Share a lot? Here's a guide to the security and privacy problems that users of Facebook and Twitter encounter, and what they can do about it.

Posted by Elinor Mills

Fourth-largest antivirus software vendor adds Exploit Prevention Labs' LinkScanner family of safe-browsing applications to its product offerings.

Posted by Robert Vamosi

Seventy million downloaders can't be wrong, right? AVG Free is a rock-solid security app that gets the job done, and the new interface makes navigation much easier.

Posted by Seth Rosenblatt

After nearly two months of waiting, fans of AVG Free can rejoice: The super popular antivirus app has updated and now sports the new interface and combined security engine that its pay-for-play siblings possess.

Posted by Seth Rosenblatt