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Site Advisor! Very cool!

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Author: Anti_Spyware,

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 5:29 am Post subject: Site Advisor! Very cool!

Just heard about this product- VERY Cool program...slows down browsing a tiny bit because it has to load the red/green alert icons but not very much. It's still in testing, but seems to work well.

Check it out! http://www.siteadvisor.com/preview/ . Its called SiteAdvisor, and it's a plugin for firefox, IE, and opera. It displays warnings of different sites that you see on search engines and that you go to; green is safe, yellow is "be cautious" and red is "dangerous". This can help protect everyone against spam, phising, and malware in all forms, its VERY cool, and Ben Endelman even wrote an article about it and joined the SiteAdvisor team, he is excited by it. I am interested in reporting bad sites and researching how spyware infects people, so this is very exciting to me as well. This is So cool! It uses bots to crawl the web looking for spam, phising, and malware sites and updates its database, which is free under the creative commons license which means the URLs listed there, once they get the database up, can be used for spyware research and put into blocklists and things....very very cool!! Try it out!!

Author: Paul,

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 5:42 am Post subject:

Haven't heard of it, but a quick search reveals this:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8866

Author: TheTOM_SK,

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:15 am Post subject:

It is similar to IE-SpyAD, but since it is a plugin, it is more user friendly, (easier instalation and maintenance) and I guess, that regular updates as well. Really nice and usefull especially for IE.

Author: TonyKlein, Location: Netherlands

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 12:49 pm Post subject:

Paul wrote:

Haven't heard of it, but a quick search reveals this:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8866

Ben Edelman's also pretty enthusiastic about it: http://www.benedelman.org/news/121905-1.html

.... and that reminds me to add SA to the CLSID List as well Wink

/modules.php?name=CLSID&query=siteadvisor

Author: Paul,

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 3:27 pm Post subject:

Ahh very good then.

Author: nightfishing41,

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 11:11 pm Post subject: nesvesoy

Site can be used as a resource w/o the extension, also.

a search pattern of http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/%s (Opera search.ini example)

with %s representing the site you are searching for works.

i.e. http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/sitetracker.com will take you to their results page.

the links do set off the "Suspicious File Extension" alert in Proxo, although I am not sure why, but I KNOW someone here will be able to explain Smile

Author: Paul,

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 11:19 pm Post subject:

Without looking at it I'd guess the ".com" is flagging this alert.

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