Howdy DavidR,
Every development that brings us a bit nearer to solving the rootkit problem should be welcomed. I scan all my hyperlinks in my browser with Dr Webs browser plug-in and I just gave you the result on this link. They give a good deal of info on a hyperlink pre-scan, don't you think?. I love it. Sad that this plug-in has not arrived yet in the Flock browser. It is a good thing because you link to the update server at St. Petersburg and the scanning is done there. Has a couple of advantages. Maybe, DavidR, you will agree with me, that lately it has grown very silent on the Net insofar as rootkits are concerned. Almost like some like to wish the problem to go away. But that is the ostrich method. Maybe we need unorthodox methods like scanning from a another platform's distro to trap the little rootkit-b*st*rds! We'll see what the future will bring in this respect.
Yours sincerely,
polonus