Responding to complaints from Web masters, AVG Technologies is moving to fix a problem with the LinkScanner feature it added to its antivirus software to prevent the component from eating up bandwidth ...

A few days ago I wrote a story about AVG's LinkScanner causing a massive amount of additional traffic on the net in the name of protecting customers... yeah. Well, here's a quote from the original ...

Called AVG LinkScanner, the software checks web addresses as they are entered via a user's Internet Explorer and Firefox web browsing client, and poll's AVG's servers on the site/page risk rating. The ...

These days, one of the greatest threats to your PC is that of so-called poisoned Web pages, which contain malicious downloads, or that may do damage to your PC all by themselves. Anti-spyware and anti ...

AVG's own research has shown that 75% of infected web sites last for less that one day - making the traditional means of blacklists and whitelists entirely pointless. AVG's LinkScanner works ...

AVG has added a feature to its LinkScanner Web security product that scans shortened URLs, which can often blindly lead users into a malicious software attack. LinkScanner, which AVG launched as a ...

Web sites rigged with malicious code are becoming more numerous by the day, but the time those sites are online is declining, according to new research from security vendor AVG Technologies. AVG is ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. AVG has been around for quite awhile and have recently entered the growing mobile space (we hear ...