[Google Chrome/Chromium] AVG Threat Labs Site Safety

This is a Chromium/Google Chrome extension I came across moments ago, from AVG.

-https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ncnjjicckpooflgclhneahpkahcpoama

It gets the results from LinkScanner.

-http://www.avgthreatlabs.com/sitereports/content/about/

Just thought someone would be interested in it. I still haven't tried it. I will, though.

 

One thing I'd noticed from this a while ago is that (this was reported to me by a user and we found this out on their specific machine) while downloading a large file it would hold the file in RAM and consume huge amounts of memory. If they downloaded a 1MB file it would hold 1MB of memory - 1GB, 1GB.

I think Opera used to use AVG link scanner. I personally use Traffic Light on my "secure" Chrome profile.

 

Are you saying this extension was causing it? Or LinkScanner itself?

 

It was a Chrome extension. I don't remember which but it was some AVG scan thing.

 

If only there was something lighter than LinkScanner like this on Firefox.