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Linkscanner Pro

Exploit Prevention Labs Linkscanner Pro takes a decidedly different approach to identifying and alerting users to potentially harmful Web sites. Rather than scan all the Web sites on the Internet and rank them, as McAfee SiteAdvisor does, Linkscanner Pro scans sites as they download onto your browser, identifying code and...

Tags: Web site development, Phishing, Web technology, Cyberthreats, Web browsers, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Exploit Prevention Labs Linkscanner Pro, LinkScanner Pro, SiteAdvisor, Web site, Web, Netcraft, LinkScanner

Product reviews 2007-02-17

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AVG Antivirus 8

The biggest news with AVG Anti-Virus 8 is that it includes Linkscanner, a technology that actively blocks malicious content from Web sites that may have been hijacked or otherwise compromised. Also, antivirus, antispyware, and antirootkit preventions have been combined into one product. The new drive-by download protection combined with AVG's...

Tags: Scanners, Web site development, Viruses and worms, Update Now, Computer Scanner, AVG, AVG Anti-Virus 8, AVG Anti-Virus

Product reviews 2008-03-11

AVG Internet Security 8.0

AVG Internet Security 8.0 has many new features including Linkscanner technology, which AVG Technologies acquired with its recent acquisition of Exploit Prevention Labs. Overall, the product falls flat as an Internet security suite. Missing from the suite is adequate antiphishing protection beyond e-mail blocking. AVG Internet Security 8.0...

Tags: Phishing, INTERNET, PRODUCTIVITY, Update Now, Next IT, Computer Scanner, AVG Technologies, AVG Internet Security, AVG Internet Security 8.0, AVG

Product reviews 2008-03-05

Netcraft Toolbar

Known more for its network tools, Netcraft also provides a free toolbar for Firefox and Internet Explorer that checks Web sites for malicious or suspicious content. It stops URLs containing characters designed to deceive, maintains navigational controls within a browser, and displays a site's hosting location--for example, a local U.S....

Tags: Web browsers, Netcraft, toolbar, Netcraft Toolbar

Product reviews 2007-02-15

SecureBrowsing (Beta)

In March, security vendor Finjan plans to release a secure browsing extension for Firefox and Internet Explorer called SecureBrowsing. Currently in beta, the tool appears to be similar to tools offered by McAfee SiteAdvisor and Exploit Prevention Labs Linkscanner Pro, which overlay a search engine results page with safety ratings....

Tags: Phishing, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Web browsers, Finjan Software Inc., SecureBrowsing, tool, search engine

Product reviews 2007-02-15