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Shorten the links and sending them in tweets are quite common these days. As you already know lot of spammers are active on Twitter and other micro blogging platforms. So there are chances that you receive a tweet about new feature of Facebook but on clicking the short URL in that tweet, you get caught by a malicious website.

AVG LinkScanner is free application which scans the links on internet. It scans every link your browser tries to access and keep the computer safe from malwares. The latest update now also scans short URLs in real-time and notifies the user(if the site is malicious) before entering. It works with all the major antivirus softwares. AVG LinkScanner runs the security scans on individual pages because there may be chance that only certain page of any website is infected.

AVG LinkScanner 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• It doesn’t rely solely on a blacklist of bad sites that can quickly go out of date.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.
• Scans the pages behind all the links you click or type into your browser.
• Scans the results of web searches in Google, Yahoo! and MSN so you know whether a page is safe before clicking on it.
• Uses the intelligence gathered by a global community of online threat detectors.
• Analyzes individual pages rather than entire sites because single pages may be threatened.
• It’s completely free.

Download AVG LinkScanner.