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Traffic-light approach to website safety
Check out websites with McAfee SiteAdvisor
Even with the better security of Firefox compared with Internet Explorer, McAfee Site Advisor is a good way to sort the good from the bad online.
Once installed it appears as small area of text in the bottom right hand corner of the browser window. This changes colour depending on the website. Green signifies a website that can be trusted, yellow a site that might send lots of emails or red for sites that are known to send spam or bundle adware into downloads.
Clicking on this text gives the option to read more information about the site. This includes the number of emails received after registration and whether the website links to any suspicious sites. Downloads hosted on the site are also checked.
Most websites are tested by computers at McAfee but it is possible to submit a user report if you feel that a website has been the cause of spam or adware.
In this case the website will be looked at by a member of the McAfee team, rather than relying on automatic checking. The site owner can also leave a message responding to the rating.
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Firefox is not safer than IE8 !
"with the better security of Firefox compared with Internet Explorer," Who says ? Firefox is in for security patches on a weekly basis. The fans, sounds like you may be one of them, call this weekly patch impressive, apparently a weekly patch shows that Firefox is on the ball. IE gets a patch and you label it as less secure than Firefox, rubbish ! The latest IE8 on a Windows 7 setup, with Protected Mode on is the safest browser out there.
Posted by mike, 28 Nov 2009
I agree
I agree with mike
Posted by max, 15 Nov 2010