Lavasoft is a very well known company which develops free antivirus and antispyware "Ad-Aware". Now the company has developed a free toolbar for web browsers.
"Lavaguard" toolbar has been developed solely to enhance user's security while browsing online. It is a combination of security tools designed to fight phishing, malware exploits and social engineering scams, by checking the websites even before they open on your browser.
Lavasoft says, malware can hide on any website today – and even computer experts can fall victim to a cyber attack. Oftentimes, you don't even have to click on a link to get infected. It's enough for you to just visit the site. Many malware attacks happen silently without any user involvement or user action, other than simply visiting an infected site.
Based on reputation technology, LavaGuard analyzes websites before you visit them, identifying which links and websites are safe and which pose a security risk. By checking in real-time, your protection against hidden threats, exploits, phishing sites, and social engineering scams is greatly enhanced.
LavaGuard protects you while you browse the web. Every URL is carefully scanned in real-time against a constantly updated list of suspected malware and phishing sites. If you click on a dangerous link while browsing the web or while reading an e-mail, LavaGuard will immediately warn you of the site's risk status.
It can remove unwanted toolbars from your browser. This simple and fast feature will unclutter your browsers of those unwanted add-ons.
With Lavasoft LavaGuard Browsing Protection installed, your browser will be upgraded with a website safety rating advisor. This safety rating icon alerts you of potentially risky sites that may harm your computer as you're surfing, banking, downloading or playing online.
LavaGuard constantly checks sites against a constantly updated list of reported phishing and malware infected sites. The list is updated every 5-20 minutes and provides real-time browsing protection against the latest web-based exploits, from back door Trojans to phishing sites.
You can download a beta version using following link:
Download Lavasoft Lavaguard Toolbar Beta
Lavasoft LavaGuard is compatible with Windows XP, Vista and 7. It can be installed in Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox web browsers.
Posted by: Vishal Gupta | Categories: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Software
BlacMoon
But its still in Beta development.
carbonize
Given that all this does is check the url against a list of known malware sites I don't see how it is any better than the malware blocking al modern browsers have built in already.
Hank Arnold
Just what I need... another toolbar to take up space... :-(
Hank Arnold (MVP)
Kowalski
Bet its bundled with Ask, Bing or other sh..
SCBright
Any kind of toolbar (at least for) are bad experiences. My browsers are allways clean.
Lester
No Version For Chrome And Rockmelt?
FrancisForward
Does it change default search-settings? I don't want to have yahoo as my nes standard search! I don't want all that crap of Ask, changed settings asf...
Fot itself it may be a good protection...