AVG Link Scanner is a new security component that includes Search-Shield and Active Surf-Shield functionality inside AVG 8.5 Free Edition to protect users against random, invisible online threats. It provides you real-time protection while you surf or chat online scanning the pages behind all the links you click or type into your browser.

Search-Shield scans search results and places a safety rating next to each link, so you know where it’s safe to click. Active Surf-Shield scans the page behind any link you click on or any web address you type into your browser. If the page is poisoned, it stops you from opening it.

Real-time protection against online threats for free—forever.

AVG Link Scanner features:

• It’s the only product that scans every web page just before you get there in real time, so it can identify short-lived threats
• It doesn’t rely solely on a blacklist of bad sites that can quickly go out of date.
• It can’t be identified by poisoned web sites, so they can’t take evasive action.
• It doesn’t rely on opinion – it looks at what’s really on the web page.
• It’s quick and easy to install.
• It works unobtrusively in the background and doesn’t slow your PC down.
• It works smoothly alongside other major brands of security software.
• It’s free, forever.

LinkScanner also checks all Internet addresses typed into the address bar of your browser, or linked on other websites. It runs silently in the background to provide protection against viruses, spyware, adware, worms and trojans, but it does not slow your system down. Its purpose is to scan all results of the supported Internet search engines (Yahoo!, Google, MSN), and provide you with an evaluation of a safety level of each found website.

Download AVG Link Scanner from http://linkscanner.avg.com/. It works with most popular Windows OS including Win2k, XP, Vista (32 &64 bit) and Internet Explorer (6.0+) and Firefox (2.0+) browsers.