dr-web The strength of your Internet Security is directly proportional to the care and restraint you exercise while being online. It is a game, where success is determined by how well you are able to be vigilant without getting paranoid.

Talking about the Security tools, there are primarily three types on Security tools available in the market today.

  • Desktop Security Tool, which provide you the real time security – for instance your favourite antivirus
  • Desktop Security Tools, which do a scheduled / manual scan of your system and files
  • and, Online security tools, which scan your system and files.

However, there remains a need for a product, which can scan the files and scripts on a webpage, which you are intending to visit.

For example, suppose you find a link on a webpage, which promises to take you to a webpage or to a download, which is the next best software in the world. You find it tempting to visit the page by clicking on the link, but you do not have full faith on the security aspects of that software / webpage. At that time, you wish to a have a tool, which could scan the destination before you proceed to visit that.

I am sure there may be such tools available, but at least I was not aware of them, till I came across Dr. Web.

It is a cool Firefox Addon, which quietly sits in your Firefox Browser and does exactly what you require.

The only issue is that I have come across some negative feedback about it, which say that it is not that effective. But still I feel, it is worth try for two reasons. It is unique in concept, and off-course, it is free.