I agree Tech,WOT is not allways right.But it has human reviewers and humans do make mistakes.But has it grows in number and more people reviewing sites it will get more accurate I feel.I use both Finjan and WOT and if either say red I won,t go there.I just like some information before visiting a site and whatever that info is,it has to be better than nothing.Thats my 2 cents. :).
I bet that avast webshield will win the battle with Finjan and WOT… Maybe just overkilling of the browsing speed.
I trust more in K9 (www.k9webprotection.com) ranking of the sites.
Hi codhead,
I have been an adviser of the use of link checkers inside browsers as part of additional browser security,
searching with scandoo.com as search engine with Google and Yahoo results link scanned.
I have WOT aboard the browser and finjan installed as well, but as finjan is realtime scanning and WOT is a reputation scanner, or using DrWeb’s av link scanner plug-in for IE, Fx and Opera, I find that lately all these link scanners fall far behind on the more recent and new massive website infection schemes. They either are not real time, and then they miss a recent temporal website injection, frame exploit, redirect or other exploit, or they do not scan for all the particular website is redirecting too, so they give a green bill to a lot of malicious sites, and so that means real time Protection MISSED. The best in-browser protection of the moment against this is the avast shield protection that prevents connects or breaks connections to the malware redirects. The only full proof security is Fx or Flock with NoScript add-on installed and active, no exploit seen yet to go passed this. Because even webmaster does not keep track of all they redirect to and what is running on their complicated websites, I have installed RequestPolicy add-on in Flock and Firefox so I can block or allow request to sites the web page asks for (and there could be malware luring in the shadows), but I have to agree the normal browser user with default settings and under full admin rights is going online like he is playing Russian roulette, the drive-by-download can leave the barrel (and enter the browser) any time,
polonus