AVG LinkScanner can detect malicious short URLs


URL shorteners may be handy for your tweets on Twitter. But they're also known security holes since they don't display the actual address of your destination. A free tool from security vendor AVG may provide a solution.




"The problem with shortened links is that they usually don't bear any resemblance to the original URLs, which means that users don't always know what they're clicking," said Roger Thompson, chief research officer at AVG Technologies. "People click with the intention of going to a specific site, but the link can be easily hacked to send people to a site containing Trojans, spyware, rootkits, and other malware instead."




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