In my humble opinion, i think WebRep is a waste of AVAST Software resources. Maybe they do get some real benefit from the ratings but for me as an end user, i don’t see anything useful in it. Ratings are often wrong and since it doesn’t really block anything, it does nearly nothing to improve security for those that are less computer literate.

I’d prefer to see a reputation based system for actual files, similar to what Norton does with Insight. Now that would make more sense and everyone would actually benefit from it. We already have a great userbase so this would make end results more accurate and it wouldn’t be just a nice icon in a browser but an actual protection feature.