Filed under: Security, Windows, Browsers, Windows x64
AVG offers standalone realtime web page scanning for Firefox and IE
by Lee Mathews Apr 20th 2009
The concept is similar to Web of Trust (which was one of my Firefox addon picks last year) in that it's designed to provide trust alerts and block access to potentially harmful sites. The toolbar includes both a search protection feature and "active surf" protection.
Links within pages are scanned and given a green check if determined to be safe, yellow exclamations if caution is needed, or a red x if unsafe. With active surf enabled, site will be blocked even if accessed directly from the address bar - LinkScanner will instead present a large, red warning that you're treading on dangerous ground.
AVG claims that one in eight users of LinkScanner has already been protected from a malicious site. While it may not be your cup of tea, LinkScanner could be a good way to keep less savvy users you know out of trouble - your parents and friends, perhaps?
[via AppScout]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
