McAfee SiteAdvisor - Ensure your safe navigation on the web
Have you ever searched on the web? If you are like the millions of people who use the web search functions from google, yahoo (dont roll your eyes some ppl do!!) and MSN (I would really like to know who but apparently there are) then you know that the search results depend on your keywords entered. Consequently the sites that show up are a combination of good and bad sites. The bad sites can do a host of things from throwing up millions of popup windows to installing malware onto your machine.
Similarly many people today use Online banking. With a host of phishing scams out there many are cheated out of their hard earned money. Phishing scams are so sophisticated sometimes that it’s difficult to discern the scam site from the original. Other phishing scams including hacking email account passwords, identity thefts and so on.
If you have encountered such problem and are looking for a solution or want to take preemptive action then the software I review today McAfee SiteAdvisor is just what you need.
McAfee SiteAdvisor is a free software plugin which is available for both the Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox web browser as an addon. You can download it from http://www.siteadvisor.com/.
McAfee SiteAdvisor ensures that when you are on a website it lets you know how safe it is. Green means the site is safe, Yellow indicates proceed with caution and Red means the site is dangerous. After installation McAfee SiteAdvisor button can be found as shown below. Here by looking at the color you can determine how safe the website really is?
Alternately when you search online using google for example, it places an icon next to the weblink with the same color scheme indicating how safe the website is. A question mark can also be found sometimes which indicates the site has not been reviewed. Most of the times though you find icons next to your results.
It checks for all possible malware on the website and alerts you well in advance so that you are safe from online attacks as well as phishing attacks.
- Helps protect against spyware and adware
- Alerts on potentially malicious web sites as well as phishing scam sites
- Provides safety ratings for search results
- Helps filter safe web sites from not so safe web sites
- Safety button at the bottom should be more prominent.
- The free version doesn’t block you from going to the website, it just alerts you.(The decision is still yours and you may end up visiting accidentally)
Filed under: Add ons, Freeware, Internet Explorer | Tagged: Addons, SiteAdvisor, McAfee, Firefox Addons, IE addons, Phishing, Malware
Now this is a really good plugin. downloading this one. had heard about it sometime back.
Thanks for reminding me of this one by your blog. Nice Review keep up the good work!
Ya I use Site Advisor and I think its a real useful tool. i have reduced down my visit to sites thta send lot of spam.
Keep up the good work.
Sounds good… site advisor you are finding really usefull tools… keep up the good work… i am downloading this….
I would like to mention another solution that also helps Internet users to surf safer: WOT, Web of Trust, is an online community for reputation rating that lets Internet users share their knowledge of websites, helping you stay in control when surfing the Web. WOT has information on 18 million websites with four reputation components: trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy, and child safety.
There are some differences between WOT and SiteAdvisor. WOT gets it site reputation data from two sources: users of the WOT community and trusted sources such as listings of phishing sites. Reputation data is recalculated every 30 minutes, so it is fresh. Many Internet users who have used WOT and SiteAdvisor have noticed that user driven approach often gives more accurate ratings that automated ones employed by SiteAdvisor. Furthermore, WOT provides also reputation regarding “vendor reliability” and “child safety”, where human input is crucial.
WOT is free and it’s available for the Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. Version coming out in a few weeks. Take a look: http://www.mywot.com
I have been using McAfee..such softwares do help..anywyaz keep us updated with such useful information..
Something free from Mcafee wow…Will give it a try :-)…