Perform a Google search and you'll be presented with pages of options. How do you pick up a potential Trojan or malicious software? By heading to a rogue website and downloading or accessing files made available to download. But how do you sort the wheat from the chaff? You look through all the text-based Google searches and, apart from a minor description, you'll have to visit the site and hope for the best.

GooglePreview 3.8 is a simple add-on for Firefox (also works on Firefox 3 beta) that will offer a quick visual preview of the searched sites. This is a small image of the intended website and it might offer you additional security before you decide to visit the site. Either way, it improves the look-and-feel of your Google searches, although you might not squeeze as many on to your search page as the images take up additional real estate.

GooglePreview 3.8 link.

28 Jan 2008