2009-10-26

How to detect poisoned web pages?

AVG LinkScanner


The popularity of Twitter and other social networks has led to what were often used services like Tiny URL. What gave the attackers a good reason to hide the addresses of poisoned sites.

AVG company has developed for these purposes LinkScanner. Thanks to AVG LinkScanner may be found poisoned page, since it checks the destination URL of each link in real time and not rely on blacklists.


What can the AVG LinkScanner ®: 

  • Scans the pages behind all the links you click or type into your browser; 
  • Scans the results of web searches in Google, Yahoo! and MSN so you know whether a page is safe before clicking on it; 
  • Uses the intelligence gathered by a global community of online threat detectors;
  • Analyzes individual pages rather than entire sites because single pages may be threatened. 





As a result, you will always have the opportunity to learn how to secure a given url address.

See more:

Trend Micro signed an OEM agreement with Asus
ESET NOD32 Mobile antivirus for OS Symbian (beta)
New Antivirus Outpost 2009


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