AVG LinkScanner for Mac

Surf, shop and social network knowing that you, your identity, and your personal information are always safe.

Why AVG LinkScanner ?

How online criminals are leveraging search engine optimization

1. One trick online criminals use to lure victims to rogue sites is taking advantage of a popular news story and using search engine optimization techniques to rank the results of their poisoned pages higher in search results.
2. They hunt and prey on poorly defended websites and upload plenty of materials relevant to the particular news story.
3. The example below seems quite inoffensive at first glance. The truth, however, is that the last three links listed lead to malicious pages that will try to sabotage your system.
4. Online criminals employ these exact same techniques two to three times a week - every time there’s a major news story in fact.

This is where AVG LinkScanner® comes in. It scans the pages behind the link you’re interested in to see if it leads to a genuine site. If it detects something suspicious, it simply prevents you from visiting the page.

How it Works

Search and Surf-Shield

AVG LinkScanner has two key features that protect you:

* Surf-Shield scans pages behind their links before you click on them. It does the same thing every time you enter a web address into your browser. If the page is infected, it simply prevents you from opening it.
* Search-Shield scans your Google, Yahoo! and Bing search results and places a safety rating next to each link, letting you know which sites can be trusted and which are to be avoided.

Online criminals are getting smarter, but we're always ahead of them.
Our real-time AVG LinkScanner® detects threats the only time it matters - before you land on the page.

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