That McAfee SiteAdvisor can help you to avoid getting onto sites with dubious or malicious site content, is well known by our forum members, I guess. But also big commerce rely heavily on its findings.
Microsoft might take a cue from Mcafee’s Site Advisor product. This tool, albeit not perfect, is having some impact on surfing behavior, but it is having an even bigger impact on media buyer’s habits. I know of one buyer who commands big budgets and he has stopped potential buys with several sites after viewing how much unsolicited mail came from certain properties. “No thanks” he says. He would rather spend his money where people aren’t going to be subjected to negative experiences because he doesn’t want his client’s brands entangled in that mess.
Well Polonus will miss this, because he has AdblockPlus with Filterset G Updater, but anyway security tools can make a difference. Remember!
Polonus,does the site advisor work with both ie(and or third browsers)like Avast and also Firefox.Sounds interesting and i’m being careful anymore where i go on the web so i would like to try it out
I use Firefox, latest version, I.E. 7, Beta 2, Flock, SeaMonkey etc. The McAfee siteadvisor is working on I.E. 7, Beta 2, is working on Firefox 1.5.0.4. I don’t have it on Flock yet or SeaMonkey. But, as I said it does work on the ones I mentioned.
Siteadvisor works in Flock. Only could not update it to the latetst build (016). Hope it again works when the Cardinal comes out.
There you can use a similar service by searching scandoo.
I played with Siteadvisor for a few days (Firefox), then took it back out because it was eating into valuable status-bar territory. Admittedly ForecastFox takes up a major chunk of the status bar already, but I’ll hang on to that one.
Siteadvisor was particularly useful in being able to call up a detailed listing of problems with the site, and about the only thing that wasn’t covered by my other security utilities was the warnings about email. But my ISP’s SpamGuard does a nifty job of catching 99-plus percent of incoming spam.
There is no doubt this is a useful tool but not for me with a dial-up connection and it being active and not an on-demand link checker.
I too have disabled site advisor. I don’t like the way it tries to establish a connection when I start firefox if I don’t happen to be on-line at the time (dial-up) connection. I also don’t like the fact that it is active and scans every site/page I visit, this slow page loading with a dial-up connection.
I only wish it would work like the Dr Web extension using the right click context menu to scan those links you want to check first before you visit.
I put these points to the site advisor team and they thought the suggestion was good and would pas it on to the developers, then McAfee bought them out. So I’m not going to hold my breath waiting, but periodically check if there is an update available and see what changes have been made.
@ MikeBCda
You can remove the status bar button in the settings.
I’ve sent a personal email to McAfee developers asking for an icon on status bar. They would think about it.
It’s a pity that some IE core based browsers (like Maxthon, Avant Browser, Green Browser…) are not supported.
The status bar I’m referring to is the one at the bottom of the browser (firefox) window, which if you click in the McAfee SiteAdvisor button you will see a menu, settings I think it is (I haven’t got it enabled so I can’t look) and one of the three options listed should remove the icon from the status bar.
