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Dr. Web Anti Virus Link Checker is a free Firefox extension offered by Dr.Web. It allows you to scan for viruses and all kinds of malicious programs any web link before it is opened, or any file before it is downloaded onto your computer.

It can detect Mass-mailing worms, E-mail viruses, Peer-to-peer viruses, Internet worms, File viruses, Trojans, Stealth viruses, Polymorphic viruses, Bodiless viruses, Macro viruses, MS Office viruses, Script viruses, Spyware, Spybots, Password stealers, Paid Dialers, Adware, Riskware, Hacktools, Backdoors, Keyloggers, Joke programs, Malicious scripts, and other malware.

With Dr. Web Anti Virus Link Checker, you can check for viruses and various malicious programs on any Internet page you visit, or any file on the Internet before you download. Dr. Web Anti Virus Link Checker do the scanning for viruses is on the servers of the Global updating system of the Dr.Web antivirus.

To scan a link or a file, simply right-click on the link you want to visit. In the opened context menu select “Scan with Dr.Web”. The scanning takes several seconds, depend on the size of the checked file. The file size limit is 12 MB!

You can download Dr. Web Anti Virus Link Checker extension from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/938. For other web browser, download the plugin for your browser:

• For Internet Explorer
• For Opera