Internet browsing made smarter and faster--Interclue

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Surfing the internet nowadays can be both confusing and dangerous. The information out there is totally massive, search engine results can provide as many as millions or even billions for every keyword search.

The alarming part of it is that all of us are susceptible to high risks of security-threat incorporated in these web pages that we view and are hidden in these links on every web page.

An example here that we could site was based on our previous post entitled, “Israel-Hamas Malware is in your spam!” which tells us about a link incorporated in an email which claims to be from CNN. The link when clicked
on asks a user to download a fake Flash player but then downloads a malware instead. More information regarding this story and related posts can be found here.

Having mentioned the fact that these security threats are incorporated into links, I came across this Firefox add-on that can actually see what is behind a link, provides ample clues via a snapshot as you hover the mouse pointer to the link before you even click it. This extension is better known as Interclue which based on its name alone, provides a clue on what’s inside a link. Very self-explanatory. To know more how this Firefox add-on works, Software Critics has created a video demo so you can see it in action.

Note: Version of this extension is not yet available for browsers such as Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari.

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