Showing posts with label Safer web browsing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Safer web browsing. Show all posts
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Even Safer browsing
This post has two bits of good information.
1) A good program for rating websites - as to how harmful they are for your computer -
is - WOT ( Web of Trust ).
You can download it for free from:
www.mywot.com
Currently there is a version for Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers.
WOT will show up on your screen when you click on a suspected bad website - instead of going directly to the site you were trying to go to - you will be prompted that the site may be bad, and you may continue to the website if you choose - that may be a bad idea to continue - and may defeat the purpose of having WOT in the first place or you can choose not to go to the site.
2) I found out about WOT from Major Geeks
A Great site for downloading safe programs, both free programs (freeware) and paid / commercial programs.
I am a member of majorgeeks forums and I submitted a post that referred to McAfee's siteadvisor - I was replied to that siteadvisor's info. is not as up to date as that of WOT.
So I believe that siteadvisor is good - at least to some degree, but WOT would be better.
If I find any better program for testing the safety of an Internet site I will post it here.
Happy safer browsing.
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