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Tuesday , May 13 , 2008

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Posted by FalangIT , Reader : 201 , 20:02:48 | Category : ITGeneral IT Security Technology

After Microsoft left the table where they tried to swallow Yahoo, never a wierder pair to get together in the IT industry. McAfee has tied in with Yahoo to tag their searches with the McAfee site advisor. I have never been a great fan of McAfee's AV software, too many critical misses, I can get that and not pay with a freeware AV. I must say having used the McAfee Site advisor extension for Firefox, my preferred browser. this utliity does provide a farily useful purpose. The site adviser is a tag on a goolge search and they change colours when the relative merit of a site changes. For example a site with no malware or malicious links will get a green status, If it is a unknow site that McAfee has not scanned then it will be grey and if it finds fault in the site and it checks for a number of basic vulnerabilities then that site is read. The extension sits on my Firefox status bar and advises me of troublesome sites. The Nation is green at present as you would reasonably expect, if however the site was to become infected in some way, they it will show red.This should happen if someone for example added malicious links to a weblog here. It is a free product so please try it out and see what you think Disclaimer: I have no interest in or association with McAfee See ya round FalangIT

After Microsoft left the table where they tried to swallow Yahoo, never a wierder pair to get together in the IT industry. McAfee has tied in with Yahoo to tag their searches with the McAfee site advisor. I have never been a great fan of McAfee's AV software, too many critical misses, I can get that and not pay with a freeware AV. I must say having used the McAfee Site advisor extension for Firefox, my preferred browser. this utliity does provide a farily useful purpose.
The site adviser is a tag on a goolge search and they change colours when the relative merit of a site changes. For example a site with no malware or malicious links will get a green status, If it is a unknow site that McAfee has not scanned then it will be grey and if it finds fault in the site and it checks for a number of basic vulnerabilities then that site is read.
The extension sits on my Firefox status bar and advises me of troublesome sites. The Nation is green at present as you would reasonably expect, if however the site was to become infected in some way, they it will show red.This should happen if someone for example added malicious links to a weblog here.

It is a free product so please try it out and see what you think
Disclaimer: I have no interest in or association with McAfee

See ya round

FalangIT

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comment 6
Ian date : 14/05/2008 time : 20.14
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Incidentally, when I have browsed to an infected website, AVG's reaction is not suitable for anyone with a weak heart. A red flashinmg screen and a very loud alarm.

comment 5
Ian date : 14/05/2008 time : 20.11
http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/anterian36

FalangIT, yes, AVG, Zonealarm, Ad-Aware are my basic defenses, plus common sense when I get email with attachments:-)
I don't use my native ISP address for email, I always use Yahoo, and that has on onboard virus checker.
Then again a modem configured correctly is a form of hardware firewall.

comment 4
FalangIT date : 14/05/2008 time : 19.46
http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/falangit

Hi Ian
Yes I agree with your perception of the AV software, I have been using AVGfree for the home pC for ages and along with using the zZnealarm firewall never had that PC infected.
(Oh alright I did infect it once playing with a live virus on it), I knowingly infected the machine.
The site advisor seems to provide a useful tool and may assist people not as computer literate to avoid a bad download. It hopefully will make them at least cautious when on a site that is not green.

FalangIT

comment 3
Ian date : 14/05/2008 time : 12.17
http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/anterian36

True, if you use their installation CD installs a nasty little trojan on behalf of True.

comment 2
wch date : 14/05/2008 time : 09.41

The Nation is green at present.
Let me run McAfee today, I will try later AVG,
Thanks gentlemen,
wch

comment 1
Ian date : 13/05/2008 time : 21.02
http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/anterian36

I have used AVG since its inception, I find it better than Norton or McAfee and it is free.

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