[xwild]

this is an article i found after i notice my lab pc got really funky on me!
taking me to different and perty much ilegal sites!

this is an Article i found and is Credited to PCMAGAZINE!..

But i felt is necessary to help Every one in this site Protect-x.

McAfee Total Protection
Beware Bad Sites

Once you've given your eBay password away to a fraud site or acquired malware through a drive-by download, it's a little late for regrets. If only you had stayed away from those sites! McAfee's SiteAdvisor and phishing-protection modules serve as "Bridge Out" signs on the information superhighway, keeping you on the straight and narrow.


SiteAdvisor, acquired by McAfee earlier this year, is still available separately for free download. SiteAdvisor's advice comes from an immense and constantly updated database of Web sites. Automated data-collection processes visit each site and collect real information about it. They automatically fill in Web forms using a unique e-mail address and then track how many spam messages come to that address. They download a sampling of available files and analyze them for malware. And they check the status of the sites linked to each site.

SiteAdvisor installs as a button in Internet Explorer or Firefox. If the current site is bad, the button turns red. Hovering over the button with the mouse gives a quick balloon summary of what's wrong. I like the fact that SiteAdvisor backs up its judgment of a bad site with hard facts: Clicking it opens a page of detailed analysis, including sample headers from spam messages, detailed information about malware downloads, and a map showing the SiteAdvisor status of this site's closest links. Users can also note their own experiences with the site.

Even better, SiteAdvisor analyzes search results from Google, MSN, and Yahoo! and flags them with a red or green status icon. SiteAdvisor gives sites not yet analyzed a gray icon, and a very few marginal sites may show up yellow. If the icon is red, stay away! Still, just because a site doesn't get the red light, that doesn't mean it's totally safe. Out of 28 sites I know to host malware, rogue antispyware, and commercial keyloggers, SiteAdvisor only red-flagged 11 (although only one actual site got a green light).

Phishing (fraudulent) Web sites are another growing problem. Malefactors create a site that looks just like the eBay log-on screen or your bank's page. They send out spam e-mails with links that appear valid but actually go to the fraud site. When you enter your password or other personal information in the fraud site, they turn around and clean out your account. And within a day or two the site is gone . . . shortly to be replaced by a new fraud site.

McAfee's phishing protection checks each site you visit against a database of known fraud sites. If the site is not on the list (and many aren't, as they change so fast), it analyzes the page content for signs of fraud. In either case, and without distinguishing between them, it asks whether to block the site or go ahead. Be careful; a site you allow will be permanently whitelisted. Also, in my testing, simply visiting a couple of the sites crashed the McAfee Proxy Service Module; McAfee duplicated this problem and promises a fix soon. [The company says this bug has been fixed and a patch pushed out to users.]

I challenged the phishing-protection module with two dozen fraud sites gathered from recent e-mails to PC Magazine staffers and from phish-tracking Web sites. For comparison, I checked them against the phishing protection from Norton Confidential and Internet Explorer 7, both in beta. None of the modules caught every site—in fact, one Russian site got past all three. But IE7 was by far the most effective, identifying 19 of the 24 as known phishing sites and one as suspected. Norton Confidential relies more strongly on analysis—it identified none as known, 16 as suspected. Three more were error pages; IE7's database recognized those, but Norton had nothing to analyze. McAfee came in last, identifying just 12 of the 24 sites. It looks like once IE7 comes out, this feature won't be worth much. And, as with SiteAdvisor, there's a danger that users may fall victim to wrongly okayed sites if they don't understand that the app gets things right only about half the time.



this program will be soon more powerfull to bad for bad Wedmasters!..

Your Amigo Xwild!..

[wombles]

Nice article there, Xwild. Mcafee seems to be one of the best. I'm runnin' the Mcafee Internet Security Suite 07'. It has all those features, site advisor, phishing, etc. Only thing I've got against it is, seems like it slows my internet down and thats with DSL. It checks like, every site I come to. Which thats a good thing, but sometimes can be anoying.

[xwild]

wombles:

I am also using DSL and i have no problem only like 1 second delay you may be running 2 firewalls disable the windows or mac firewall.

there are also advance setting for internet access that you can reconfigure manually.

I had to dissable site advisor and i am running a 3rd and 4rth party report on sites now as advise from my affiliates.

please look in to the advnace settings and see if what you have going on.

I used to sell Northons antivirus and panda software.

MCfee at this time is one of the best software available.