AVG Security Toolbar
AVG’s Security Toolbar is powered by LinkScanner technology which lets you know whether the sites you are about to visit are safe.
But that’s not all. The AVG Security Toolbar also offers:
- Easy access to the latest news so that you are always kept informed
- Immediate notification whenever a new email arrives to most webmail accounts including Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, and Hotmail
- Easier search options so that you can instantly access Wikipedia, Yahoo! Images, Yahoo! Video, Yahoo! local, and Yahoo! Shopping
- Shortcuts to Microsoft Windows applications such as Calculator, Media Player, Paint, and Windows Explorer to help ease your workload
Unique protection technology
AVG's unique Surf-Shield and Search-Shield features are invaluable parts of the AVG Security Toolbar. Their powerful LinkScanner® technologies analyze websites before you visit them and identify which links are safe and which lead to problems such as:
These are pieces of malware that infect your computer by means of a drive-by, or hidden, download. Unnoticeable to users, these exploits infiltrate software applications and wreak havoc on your computer. With the AVG Security Toolbar however, you’ll be alerted of all threats before you visit the infected sites.
Phishing pages pose as web pages representing banks or other trustworthy financial institutions. They fool unsuspecting visitors into providing valuable personal information which is then used by online criminals for the purposes of both identity and financial theft. With AVG Security Toolbar, these and other such scams become a thing of the past.
These pages present themselves as being helpful, while their true intention is to cause damage to your system. They may, for example, ask users to install a plug-in for the purposes of watching a video, but in reality they are nothing more than spyware. The AVG Security Toolbar uncovers such threats before they present themselves and infect your computer.
The AVG Security Toolbar allows you to manage your AVG LinkScanner protection without having to open the AVG control center. The toolbar also features direct search possibilities through Yahoo!, including Yahoo! Images, Yahoo! Video, Yahoo! Local and Yahoo! Shopping, all of which are protected by our renowned LinkScanner® technology which keeps you safe from all dangerous or questionable sites.
