Google told us some harmful links with “This site may harm your computer” tags. It help us a lot but still isn’t enough. We need a tool to check every links we want to visit to protect our computer far away the viruses and hackers.

It is Online Link Scan. An easy to to check links online without visiting or downloading to our local computer.

The tool is quite clear in the homepage with just a submit bar to submit links you want to scan. After you press “Scan” button, the system will automatically scan the links with a progress bar and then tell you if your links are clean without viruses or is harmful to you. So you can judge the website by the result.

So we’re searching the internet and find there’s a free online virus scan service called VirSCAN.org. It is only a online file scanner with more than 37 popular anti virus engines. Upload the files, then VirSCAN.org will check for viruses and malwares automatically. If the files contain viruses, trojans, backdoors, spyware, dialers, etc, VirSCAN.org will report you the detail which you can clearly see which malware is hidden in your files.

Be remember, VirSCAN.org is only a online file scannot and it can’t replace your pc anti virus software and firewall. It only help you to judge the suspicious files.