Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Pingie: HTTP:: Keep Away from Risky Websites

HTTP:: Keep Away from Risky Websites
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Protecting yourself against malware alone will not keep you in the safe jar as the online environment is filled with all sorts of traps ready to take advantage of the most gullible of us. Malware distributors, phishing threats, as well as dangerous domains are all part of the Internet and few are those capable to avoid their snares. WOT (Web of Trust) is a small web browser extension recently co-branded by Panda Security and Against Intuition, the developing company. Its purpose is to provide you with ratings for the visited webpages and warn when your navigation heads towards a shady location that could possibly bring harm to your computer or affect your privacy or sensitive personal information. Briefly put, WOT is designed to keep you away from the online dangers. Depending on how it is configured, the extension simply displays warning messages for each website it deems not exactly trustworthy, allowing you to terminate the visit or go past the word of advice and conti!
nue surfing. At the same time you have the possibility to rate a website yourself and judge it by its trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy and child safety. As all WOT ratings and warnings are based on the common intelligence of the community using it, you will be in fact contributing to the pool of common knowledge. [tablec] [row] [col] ...
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http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/WOT-Web-of-Trust-Review-118246.shtml


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