what is better?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi I have one question. What is better? McAfee Site Advisor or AVG link scanner. Both of them is free.

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SiteAdvisor is a tad out of date, and I experienced slow-downs with AVG LinkScanner.

A better combo would be WOT + Browser Defender + Finjan, for Firefox. I am not sure about Internet Explorer.

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u shouldn’t post ur topic here. Both r good but I don’t prefer any of those. I more prefer WOT

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I don’t rate either of them:
SiteAdvisor has some site information that is so far out of date as to be useless.
AVG link scanner, for me just slowed things too much (I’m on dial-up), so not practical for me.

I too use WOT firefox add-on, whilst this is much faster, it shouldn’t be used as gospel as at times sites that I consider to be good are flagged as bad and vice versa. This is the problem with community based reporting (some people haven’t got a clue), so it is guidance only for me.

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WOT + Browser Defender + Finjan is better than both of all you said. I also deleted McAfee Site Advisor in my favorite as its a junk and report me only good site like bad…

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None. Avasts’ webshield, in conjunction with other protection, is adequate.
I’ve never got an infection from visiting (or trying to visit) sites even when they have been reported as hosting malware.

As DavidR said, community based input without apparent oversight is pretty much a WOT

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I vote for avast web shield too :wink: Never slows my internet connection

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What about Web Security Guard?

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Hello all,

I vote for WOT. It doesn’t completely depend on user ratings but also panda ratings + hphosts ratings. so it works for me.

thanks
nmb

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I use Browser Defender™ Website Safety Lookup as it works on Win7 and XP Pro.

I used to use WOT but not since Panda joined with them.

I used to use Finjan SecureBrowsing but I could not get it to work on Win7.

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And Browser Defender is PC Tools is Symantec :wink: Btw both WOT and BD are available for IE :slight_smile:

Greetz, Red.

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Do you mean the Web Security Guard in Spyware Terminator?
If yes I think that it is also said the be a spyware itself but spywareTerminator is a good program only the web Security guard is not good!

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You have no idea about what you are saying regarding Web Security Guard!

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Is web of guard good or no?

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I don’t know as I have not tried it.

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Hi,

WoT is free, quick and comprehensive. This is what is says about about this site:


http://f.imagehost.org/t/0026/WoT.jpg

You can use additionally rather than exclusively.

My regards

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Thanks for correcting YoKenny

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Mike, the ad banner in the site where your image is, will alert the network shield…

More info:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=52692.msg446367#msg446367

EDIT: Was a FP

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No alert for Mike’s image for me but I don’t use Yahoo Mail.

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The thread divulged a bit into being about the image here…not related to yahoo.
Did you click the image in mike buxtons post…happens in IE too