DavidR
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In all honesty these redirect google search results generally don’t point directly at the site, but use a redirect script in the actual url string and WOT or McAfee, etc. won’t make a blind bit of difference.
The WebRep is currently worthless as it is a reputation only tool and no indication of if the site is actually infected. As and when this data from the virus labs function gets added then it might be some use in this regard. But again if it is as is becoming common a malformed url string incorporating a script, you really aren’t going to know the origin of the site.
You can hover the mouse over the active link and check the full url string, not just what is displayed, but even then this isn’t 100% if they use shortened urls. Then you need an add-on to expand them, such as the The LongURL Mobile Expander.
The LongURL Mobile Expander lets you expand shortened URLs on any website, no matter where you go!