New free Dr.Web link checker for Mozilla Thunderbird - check any link for viruses right out of your mail client!

August 29, 2007

Doctor Web, Ltd., a Russian company developing and distributing Dr.Web IT-security solutions, announces release of a new anti-virus link checker for popular Internet browser Mozilla Firefox. The new plug-in can be installed both in Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird.

Being integrated into Mozilla Firefox, Dr.Web link checker scans for viruses and malicious codes all Internet links contained in bodies of e-mail messages. Importance of such scanning can hardly be overestimated. A dramatic increase of spam messages with URLs pointing at all sorts of web-sites has been recorded by Doctor Web, Ltd.’s experts lately. The analysis shows that most of such web-sites conceal dangerous cyber threats: users who visit them via the most widespread browser Microsoft Internet Explorer are driving the risk of picking up a Trojan, like Trojan.Packed.142 for instance, which is now the principal component of the majority of the recent spam outbreaks. Spam-writers have devised a diverse range of social engineering techniques to trap even those reluctant to use MS Internet Explorer while surfing the Web to lure them to click the ill-intended URL.

Users of Mozilla Thunderbird protected by new Dr.Web link checker can now scan any link received in an e-mail in just a few seconds – the time necessary to download the content of the URL to the server of Doctor Web, Ltd. If the original link is infected, or points to an unsafe page, a corresponding warning immediately appears on the screen. As new Dr.Web link checker for Mozilla comprises also an anti-phishing function, it protects users from being redirected to fraudulent e-banking web-sites. Cyber traps they are facing can now be easily evaded with free Dr.Web link checker.

Dr.Web link checker for Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird can be downloaded directly from Mozilla's website: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/938.

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