incrediBILL - 9:14 am on Jun 14, 2008 (gmt 0)

That would be too exensive, you need to maintain a bot, storage, bandwith etc..., right now they are using their client's ressources for this "feature"

No, a bot can be easily spotted, won't work, trust a bot spotter about this. Using the client machine for a distributed crawl of these sites is much harder to detect and the best way to compile an accurate list of malware sites that isn't easily spoofed.

However, if AVG 8 can actually defend against the malware that the Link Scanner detects then the Link Scanner itself just wasting everyone's time and this feature is just marketing hype with no intrinsic value.