SiteAdvisor

Posted By: Alfred Jackson
Date: Sunday, 30 April 2006, at 7:41 a.m.

I was one of the early "Beta Testers" for SiteAdvisor and have used it for appx. 6 months.

My opinion is that you shouldn't be on the Internet without it.

Quote from Website:

"SiteAdvisor is a consumer software company founded in April 2005 by a group of MIT engineers who wanted to make the Web safer for their family and friends. Having spent one too many holiday breaks trying to clean a mess of spam, ad ware, and spy ware from our families' computers, we decided to take action.

We realized there was a gaping hole in existing Web security products. While traditional security companies had gotten relatively good at addressing technical threats like viruses, they were failing to prevent a new breed of "social engineering" tricks like spy ware infections, identity theft scams, and sites which send excessive e-mail.

To address this challenge, we built a system of automated testers which continually patrol the Web to browse sites, download files, and enter information on sign-up forms. We document all these results and supplement them with feedback from our users, comments from Web site owners, and analysis from our own employees.

Our easy to use software for Internet Explorer and Fire fox summarizes our safety results into intuitive red, yellow and green ratings to help Web users stay safe as they search, browse and transact on line.

Our goal is to pioneer a new approach to Web safety and make the Internet safer for everyone."

When you search with Google, Yahoo! or MSN, SiteAdvisor's safety ratings appear next to search results.

As you browse, a small button on your browser toolbar changes color based on SiteAdvisor's safety results.

Menu options on SiteAdvisor's toolbar let you customize SiteAdvisor or see a site's detailed test results.

Warnings inform you of threatening Web sites.

System requirements -
Operating System: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP (XP recommended)
Web Browser: Internet Explorer 5.5-6.0 (6.0 recommended)
Minimum Hardware: 400 MHz processor, 128 MB RAM, 10 MB free disk space, and an Internet connection
SiteAdvisor for Internet Explorer is a small plug-in of only 467K

To download, click here:
http://www.siteadvisor.com/download/ie.html

Site Advisor Home Page

Messages In This Thread

SiteAdvisor
Alfred Jackson -- Sunday, 30 April 2006, at 7:41 a.m.

Re: SiteAdvisor
Ginger Edwards -- Sunday, 30 April 2006, at 12:03 p.m.

Re: SiteAdvisor
Alfred Jackson -- Monday, 1 May 2006, at 8:59 a.m.

Re: SiteAdvisor
Ginger Edwards -- Monday, 1 May 2006, at 4:31 p.m.

 

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