Dr.Web LinkChecker for Firefox

In a time when we have a million places to visit over the Internet, it's not easy to figure out which websites are safe and which as breeding grounds for viruses, spyware and other not-so-pleasant experiences. Some websites are so dangerous in fact that all you need to do is just enter them once and you re unfortunately hooked with whatever they may be extracting from your browser and cookies. That is where a Firefox browser extension like Dr.Web LinkChecker can come in handy, as it allows you to check any file you are about to download, any page you are about to visit with online version of Dr.Web anti-virus.

Some websites may not be hazardous to visit themselves but may have links within them that are, and with Dr.Web LinkChecker you scan potentially dangerous links. Since the addon used the Dr.Web database, it is continuously updated and manages to detect all the latest threats that appear on the market, keeping you safe from harm.

Among the many neat features that Dr.Web Link Checker boasts having is the apparent protection against phishing attempts and virus infections in social networks, such as those from VKontakte, Facebook, and Google+. In some aspects, this extension also may double as a VPN and as an adblocker, or at least as far as the user information leakage goes, since blocks all the most common ad network resources and web behavior analytics that allow your search requests and sites visited to be analyzed, as well as blocking ads themselves. More so, this neat extension can be used to scan files up to a certain filesize before downloading them.

Dr.Web LinkChecker for Firefox goes by the "better to prevent than try to repair" ideology, preventing you from accessing any site, link or downloadable file that it deems even remotely dangerous.