AVG Launches LinkScanner for Mac (PC Magazine)

Mac users crapper be noesis at nowadays in affectionateness to the scarceness of Mac-based viruses and another vindictive cipher compared to the batch of malware for Windows.

However, whatever attacks are totally platform-agnostic. If a fraudulent scheme place crapper delude you into gift absent your countersign or individualized aggregation it doesn't concern if you're streaming MacOS, Windows, or a personalized UNIX distro that you coded by hand. AVG's brand-new LinkScanner for Mac addresses this problem, and it's free.

Like the LinkScanner shapely into AVG cyberspace Security 9.0 and AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 9.0, LinkScanner for Mac automatically blocks admittance to scheme pages that include vindictive content. It also marks up see results in Google, Bing and Yahoo! using blackamoor icons. Green effectuation good, of course; yellow, orange, and flushed inform crescendo venture levels.

LinkScanner for Mac reports on fraudulent sites, which are threats to every users disregarding of operative system. But it also reports on scheme sites that include vindictive cipher specifically targeted at Windows users. Visiting much a place from a Mac won't do some imperishable damage, but do you rattling poverty to meet a place that's fashioned to move its users? And of instruction when you impact much a place you crapper saucer it discover to your Windows-using friends and gloat, meet a little, because you're safe.

Originally posted to the PCMag.com section blog, Security Watch.

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