AVG LinkScanner

AVG verification software that checks links and makes sure they aren't dangerous.

Some of the most usual security threats are hidden in some websites, because these can include small codes that can damage our computer or simulate being from other sites to receive certain information. That is why lately antivirus strive to find out and detect where each link will take the user before visiting it.

  AVG LinkScanner is a product by AVG for this purpose. It moves ahead of the users movements investigating if the link route and showing if it is secure or not. Even those links that pass through the usual URL shorten services used by sites like Twitter or Facebook.

  The services that shorten URLs are a spotlight for security problems, because the browser doesn't know and doesn't tell us where the link will take us, thus making it very easy to deceive any user.

  With AVG LinkScanner the links that are really secure will be marked as such and those that aren't will show a notification.