AVG LinkScanner Free Edition 8.5 for Windows is designed specifically to protect against Trojans, spyware, rootkits and other malware that tries to steal your private information via compromised web pages, where the bulk of computer infections are happening today. This includes backdoors that are created by infections that allow botnets the ability to access a computer.

"A few years ago we had the bad guys almost beaten by blocking their attacks with firewalls, email scanning engines and some simple heuristics. But then they created ways to exploit the websites that we all visit with a trusted browser," said Lloyd Borrett, AVG (AU/NZ) Marketing Manager.
 
"The cyber criminals have become so good at it that even a trained eye can't tell when a web page might be harvesting your private information or dropping some attack code onto your computer. That changed the game. AVG LinkScanner was created specifically to spot web-borne malware and alert computer users to hostile web pages. In real-time."