In the short term, Grisoft CEO J.R. Smith said the company will integrate EPL’s flagship LinkScanner technology to AVG Anti-Virus Free and offering LinkScanner Online, a free on-demand URL scanning service, directly from the AVG web site.
Hi Frank!
Reading above I was wandering, will ALWL ever develop similar service?
What for? The Avast Web Shield is supposed to detect the same things, and more…
Quite. AVG is adding a feature avast! already has. (I’m assuming they will add the exploit scanner.)
Am I wrong or avast was one of the first AV to add this feature?
yep…i think the same too…avast must be one of the first AV developping this feature…
Oh sorry, silly me, I must been missed that ??? 
Seems that Link Scanner will have some features not shared by Webshield:
LinkScanner sits on a user's computer and monitors the outside world for exploits. When it detects one, it drops the connection, which prevents the attack from succeeding. It then [i]reports the incident back to a central database[/i] so it can warn users who try to visit the same destination. LinkScanner automatically analyzes results returned by Google and other search engines and [i]places a check mark next to sites believed to be safe.[/i]Grisoft plans to offer LinkScanner Pro as a standalone product and also as part of the professional versions of its antivirus program and internet security suite. The company will integrate LinkScanner Lite, which contains fewer features, with a free version of AVG.
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/12/05/grisoft_buys_epl/
linkscanner got quite huge detection database for various exploits and that’s something Avast! don’t have
from my experience approx ratio 5:1 where linkscanner detects malformed malicious code inside scripts and avast nothing
i’m not happy about this takeover because Linkscanner started to offer SDK for others companies and if Grisoft takes over then i bet this is over
linkscanner got quite huge detection database for various exploits and that's something Avast! don't have
Unless something has changed recently, I don’t agree with this.
Last time I spoke with one of the XPLabs executives, the number of exploits was actually quite low (couple of tens…).
Anyway, of course, WebShield DOES have the ability to block everything LinkScanner blocks… on the other hand, the quality of the database is another thing (and we’re working on making it better).
Cheers
Vlk
i’m sure u will 
grisoft is making a nice move but i’'m pretty sure that this linkscanner will be a failure as their firewall…
Hey… don’t be so rude with the guys… they’re working hard ;D
I think Grisoft is taking the right approach though and working in the right direction towards improving their security software. I’m interesting to see what the final product will be - I’m expecting a final unifying product (i.e some later launch version).
I have noticed in the detections that Alwil is improving the number of detected exploits but there are still a lot which are not detected 
Keep up the good work
Al968
Vlk that’s very nice to know i think the EPL was simply better than Avast! because all they done was concetrate on website exploits …
btw. is it true that LinkScanner used database / informations from CallingID link advisor ? http://www.callingid.com/DesktopSolutions/CallingIDLinkAdvisor.aspx
btw. is it true that LinkScanner used database / informations from CallingID link advisor ?
I don’t think so… everytime I talked to the XPLabs guys, it looked like it was their own technology (developed in-house).
Cheers
Vlk
was discussion on some security forum about that they ‘reused’ the database of callingID LA to ‘mark’ threat URLs …
not sure about exploit detection self …
anyway as long as Avast! got both … i don’t care right ??? ;D
i’m just a realist…
I know… their firewall is no more than a joke…
Unfortunately I don’t think the people using it will be laughing for long… 