AVG LinkScanner... Needed?

AVG LinkScanner is a completely free product.

 

And it's exploit detector, not otherwise bad/questionable content detector that tells you about site's spamming etc. behaviour (a la Siteadvisor/WOT), or what sort of files it hosts.

Of course it marks pages good if they do not contain exploits ...


(Happily using AVG LS myself, alongside SA/WOT)

 

Has anyone had connectivity issues with AVG LinkScanner and Firefox? If I'm running Firefox for a while, I either will get network timeouts or network connection errors. If I disable LinkScanner, no problems.

 

nope never had that prob when i had linkscanner installed although i dont have it installed anymore.

 

I had the same problem.

 

I too experience those network timeouts; it seems to be browser-independent issue.

Restarting Active Surf Shield resolves the issue (for a while)

 

I was told by AVG that it also checks against a blacklist of malicious domains (non-exploit domains). Of course, not its main targets. The main targets for LinkScanner are exploits.

I guess that nothing is useful, until it becomes useful. LinkScanner is one of those, I guess. And, so are many others.

 

Been meaning to ask you, what exactly do you mean by a waste of compatibility?

 

I've had conflicts with other software it seems, or just a failed installation. What struck me was that it didn't fail to load at first - it suddenly just did, and it seemed to be in conjunction with installing MSE. I got unsure myself on why it's failing, I simply can't remember.

 

There is another one of these type products that some of you may be interested in. It is called LinkExtend and it includes eight of these products all rolled into one, AVG is not among them. Also, I believe it is only for Firefox. Included are the big names, SiteAdvisor, MyWot, and a few others. It actually uses all eight simultaneously to check in advance for you when surfing. Even has a feature that will block you from going somewhere it suspects then gives you the option to go there anyway if you want.

I tried this product some time ago and it works but it slowed down my surfing by a second or two for each site I went to; I guess it takes that long for all the "advisors" to report back to it then for it to report back to you. But if you don't mind the delay, this product did work. It also had a few other features but I don't remember what they were. This product being rather new has a tremendous potential, in my opinion, if they can somehow speed it up a bit.

Like I said, only for Firefox and does not include the AVG product.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10777
http://www.linkextend.com/

Acadia

 

I've seen this one, but I think it's just great you're posting it in this type of topic so that everyone can take advantage of the information. If it was available for Opera, I would possibly use it, if adding significant protection to my browsing and not just safety-ratings - without slowing my browsing speeds down.

 

Hmm... I see no problems between MSE and Linkscanner. Maybe something else conflicting there?

 

Nah, but thanks anyway. I'm sure it was not MSE by now, but it did happen around the time that I installed MSE and had LinkScanner on my system.

 

for people using opera, get the stay secure widget, tells you what exploits browsers have unpatched, currently ie has 1 security hole unpatched, firefox/opera and safari are fine

 

Is AVG LinkScanner also bundled with Adware like AVG Anti-Virus Free?

 

it wasnt last time i tried it

 

There is the optional toolbar. Which is prechecked by the way, So one needs to pay attention when installing.

Whether this is adware or not is debatable, however it is not needed.

 

It's just the yahoo toolbar.

 

I noticed the same here too, this behaviour is unacceptable

 

Linkscanner marks most dangerous sites as safe.

 

robinb/JRViejo: Can you forward this problem to AVG please?

 

Try posting in AVG forums. After posting there about this issue I was contacted by tech who had me collect some log files.

I am not saying they do this to everyone, however posting there that you still continue experiencing this issue could help


What comes to me, I got tired of this issue and removed the software in question for a while.

 

In these days all browsers have web shields for bad links internet explorer has also antivirus..... smartguard. Linkscanner is an a extra protection but slowdown things..... if you have a good behavior blocker or hips you dont need anything else. The faster is WOT (im using it).

 

WOT is not exploit link scanner.

It's community reputation tool. That may or may not be entirely accurate all the time