Dr.Web LinkChecker by Doctor Web Anti-Virus

Dr.Web Link Checker is a free extension that can instantly scan webpages and files downloaded from the Internet, and block website attempts to monitor user activity and display advertisements.


If, for some reason, you have not yet entrusted Dr.Web products to defend your computers, use Dr.Web Link Checker, and surf the World Wide Web without fear of virus attacks, phishing attempts, and annoying ads!


Dr.Web Link Checker’s automatic features
• Protects against phishing attacks and malware infections in social media. External links in social networks are scanned automatically, and then a warning is displayed about the danger of following links from social networks to other sites.

• Blocks attempts to monitor user Internet activity, including on social networks. Blocks all the most common ad network resources and web behaviour analytics that allow user search requests and visited sites to be analysed and the resulting collected data to be used to display specific ads to users.
• Blocks ads (social network advertising plugins embedded in pages of third-party sites, ad networks, flash banners and videos, and separate ad units on a page). User-created site exceptions lists indicate which sites can display ads.

User-requested scanning
for phishing attempts, malware, unwanted or non-recommended sites

• Scans links before visiting a site
• Scans files (up to 12 MB in size) before downloading them from the Internet
• Checks links in e-mail messages processed by Mozilla Thunderbird


Other features

• Detects and checks malformed links
• Sends requests to add specific advertising sites into the Dr.Web database