Unshorten Urls & Check If The Site Is Safe With URLVoid

2.17.2011

Unshorten Urls & Check If The Site Is Safe With URLVoid

Nowadays, you are exposed to a lot of urls that are shortened. Like on Twitter, Facebook, you almost can not avoid those urls. If you are worried about the safety of some websites, here is a solution.

「URLVoid」 is an online service that can scan a website address with multiple scanning engines such as Google Diagnostic, Norton SafeWeb, MyWOT to detect the possible dangerous. And you can also check reputation of domains and subdomains.

URLVoid：http://www.urlvoid.com/

「Extract URL」is a service of URLVoid, you can unshorten urls with it.

So, just 3 steps to check the shorten url.

1. Unshorten the shortened url with Extract URL
2. Use URLVoid to check the website reputation
3. After step 2, don't forget to start a Virus Scan