Scan Web Sites for Viruses and Malware
August 23, 2010 Computer Safety Tip
You may be interested to know that new malware comes every day from various sources. Even from places which the 
majority of us will never in a million years suspect. The great thing to know is that you can actually check web sites in order to make sure that they either have or don’t have any malicious software. This may be achieved by making use of URLVoid.com and the good thing to know is that it only takes a few moments.
Enter the URL of any Web site, without the http:www, and click Scan Now.
Within a couple of moments you shall obtain a report which will tell you the site’s IP address, host country, domain hash and other information. You then can determine if the site is clean or not.
The report comes along with many trusted sources that we all know which includes: Google Diagnostic, Browser Defender, McAfee Site Advisor and Norton Safe Web. Thus, a clean bill of health means the Web site is probably trustworthy.
We all still need to be careful and need to not rely on this in isolation but at the end of the day it does the trick effectively and simply.
