URLVoid.com is a brand new online service launched on May 21, 2010. This service was developed by NoVirusThanks Company. The service allows users to enter website addresses to detect if a website is dangerous. URLVoid analyzes URLs in a very similar way to VirusTotal by querying several URL databases. It then gives a reputation score to that URL.
Urlvoid.com uses multiple scanning engines such as Google Diagnostic, McAfee SiteAdvisor, Norton SafeWeb and MyWOT.
The reports are cached for 5 days to avoid the scan of the same website for too many times in the same day and to not stress the engines in use.
Here is a list of engines that can be used in this service:
- McAfee SiteAdvisor
- McAfee Trusted Source
- BrowserDefender
- Norton SafeWeb
- MyWOT
- MalwareDomainList
- hpHosts
- ZeuS Tracker
- Google Diagnostic
- PhishTank
- Project Honey Pot
- ParetoLogic
- Spamhaus
- URIBL
- TrendMicro Web Reputation
- Web Security Guard
Note: Even if a website comes up clean by the scanning engines listed, there’s no guarantee that the site is harmless. The engines that are used still makes a strong case that the website is more than likely safe.
Hi,
Thanks, this is a good website, a really good one too.
Guess what, i check this link of the website on it.
It turned out to be clean. .. :P
I appreciate the compliment.
Thats a great post because the safety in Web is the prior thing (at least for me). I just visited the URLVoid.com and I’m going to bookmark it and use it cos its a great tool I bet it will save me some trouble in the future. Keep up the good work and good luck in the future.
Will be a frequent user of URLVoid.com. Thanks for the info.
Andrew,
I like the service and have tested it against sites I know that are harmful.