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SiteAdvisor - or do YOU like spam, spyware, & safety threats?
brotherS:
http://www.siteadvisor.com/
digg said:
SiteAdvisor is testing all Web sites for spam, spyware, & safety threats. You browse and search as normal and their empirical data (green=good, yellow=caution, red=bad) appears in an icon in IE or Firefox & next to results in Google, Yahoo, & MSN. Every site gets its own site details page w/ in-depth analysis. They launched a slick redesign today.
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They say:
SiteAdvisor - or do YOU like spam, spyware, & safety threats?
Sounds like a really, really great idea!
SiteAdvisor currently works with Internet Explorer and Firefox.
I will link to this thread from the Firefox extension thread too.
grabacontroller:
Im using it right now and I use netcraft also to protect me against phishing sites. :)
clif_notes:
Back in January, I wrote up a mini-review of SA. I have two versions of it.
SiteAdvisor - tells you what websites are not safe
reviewed by ClifNotes, Jan 2006
In the last issue of my newsletter, I happened to mention a blog from a service called SiteAdvisor. Two of you wrote in to ask me if it was safe. I've done some research and I will start recommending this very good service. In fact, I'm using it now myself.
The people who wrote in are correct in being concerned about this service. SiteAdvisor is an Internet Explorer toolbar and a Firefox extension you can download and install for free. SiteAdvisor tracks your web surfing and in return, they offer advice about the websites that appear in your web searches and the pages you actually load. I've been assured that this "tracking" by SiteAdvisor is completely anonymous and that it will never be sold to third party advertisers. This means that they can see where I'm surfing but they can't tell who I am when they are looking at their records.
Let's take a simple Google search for an example of what SiteAdvisor can do. Type in the word "screensaver" in Google and you'll see the screen below.
Screenshot - searching for screensavers
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Do you see the red "x" beside many of the entries. Notice that the entries for Screensaver.com are marked. I can confirm that this is a bad website. I wrote an article about it last year that warns people away from it. It gives me a bad feeling to see that Screensaver.com is a "sponsored" link at Google. The problem is that all the other search engines will give you nearly the same "sponsored" links. Who can you trust? SiteAdvisor can help us with that problem.
SiteAdvisor places red, yellow, or green icons beside the sites it knows about to help you make informed decisions about where you want to go online. It also includes a colored button in your web browser to tell you about the website you are currently browsing.
Right now this service is in a testing phase, but you can still try it out to see if you like it. I'm hoping that SiteAdvisor will continue to offer this service for free, once they are finished testing it.
Quote from SiteAdvisor.com
SiteAdvisor helps protect you from all kinds of Web-based security threats including spyware, adware, spam, viruses, browser-based attacks, phishing, online fraud and identity theft.
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Source:
http://snipurl.com/IP_SiteAdvisor
http://freewarewiki.pbwiki.com/SiteAdvisor
brotherS:
Thanks clif_notes, nice review!
clif_notes:
Almost forgot to mention. Since that article I've learned that SA will continue to offer a free service.
See http://freewarewiki.pbwiki.com/ClifNotesNewsletter060205#SiteAdvisorNews
I also got a freebie from SA, a cool beta-tester T-shirt. ;D
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