WOT Alernative(s)

Non-Avast security products
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Hi there,

Are you aware of any (which) WOT alternative(s)?
WOT cannot be trusted?
Do you recommend a WOT alike?

I shall be looking forward to hearing from you, thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Hermie

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https://www.alternativesq.com/weboftrust-wot-alternatives/
I’m quite happy with Avast Online Security. :slight_smile:

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Thanks @Bob3160 for your reply.
Are you aware of any free WOT alternative?

Best, Hermie

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You obviously didn’t follow the link I posted.

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Thanks Bob, you are right. Somehow I missed the link.
I will take a look at your link and Avast Online Security.

Best regards, Hermie

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Bumping this old topic, because I just found a more trustworthy way of qualifying domain tagging here:
example: https://community.opendns.com/user/687476 *

I use it, * , checking up on DNS requests inside DNSQuerySniffer,
another fine security-check-tool developed by Israeli developer-g33k, Nir Sofer.
→ -https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/dns_query_sniffer.html
You sure would like all of his nifty Windows tools, as he has a long relationship with Microsoft.

Enjoy, my good friends, enjoy,

polonus

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You sure would like all of his nifty Windows tools

I use 31 of them :slight_smile:

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WOT used to be awesome, until they screwed up the TRUST part. Now I can’t force myself using it again knowing what they did.

Back then, I used it to know if shops I never used were verified, warned users about bad shops and flagged trusted company sites as official ones to let users know they are on the right site for sure. It was by far the best tool in existence. Not even avast!'s one comes anywhere close because ratings with avast! are pretty much useless because they have no context like WOT had since you could left a written message about it. And WOT actually stored your ratings under account. With avast!, if I reinstall my system or browser, everything is just gone and I have no clue which site I’ve already rated and which I haven’t. And I have no intention to waste my time rating pages I’ve rated them already, I just can’t remember if I have done so already.

It’s really a shame, because WOT was great. And they screwed it up big time.

Only good alternative i could find is:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trustpilot/meagmjlgkihmljnchdjagbcgfclobkho

TrustPilot is great page to check what stores to trust. Unfortunately they only have extension for Chrome for some stupid reason. There is none even for Firefox which is just straight up weird. But there it is if you’re using Chromium based browser…

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There is also this site to check on alleged scams - Scamvoid:

https://www.scamvoid.com/check/roi777.com/

The scam site tested there is one that is often used in traffic distribution scams:
And it can be seen confirmed in this read-up on it: https://malware.dontneedcoffee.com/hosted/anonymous/kotd.html

polonus (3rd party cold reconnaissance website security analyst and website error-hunter)

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Another WOT alternative:
https://www.brightcloud.com/tools/url-ip-lookup.php
For instance you get an IP threat status as high risk for IP 195.20.48.168
IP Database Version: 1.1713 - Last Updated: 10/18/2018 08:10:07 UTC
IP Threat Analysis
Threat Found PHISHING
High Risk 8 detected for
Geographic Location
City: amsterdam
State: noord-holland
Region: N/A
Country: netherlands
Latitude: 52.30905
Longitude: 4.94019
Organization: opentld web network freenom
Carrier: verotel international b.v.
Top Level Domain: N/A
Second Level Domain: N/A

polonus (volunteer website security analyst & website error-hunter)

P.S. active abuse: 161 times last 30 days: https://checkphish.ai/ip/195.20.48.168

Damian