Safe Surfing Tools

Started by DennisD, Feb 21 2007 11:25 PM

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#1 OFFLINE DennisD

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Posted 21 February 2007 - 11:25 PM

Interesting comparison of browser tools. There are alternatives to McAfee. Although not very many.

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Surfing the Web can be dangerous business. We looked at five standalone safe surfing tools and compared them with the native protection within Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7.

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#2 OFFLINE rridgely

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Posted 22 February 2007 - 01:02 AM

I've actually never heard of any of the "alternatives" they mentioned.
I wonder why the liked that toolbar...

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#3 OFFLINE res45

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Posted 22 February 2007 - 02:47 AM

rridgely, on Feb 21 2007, 08:02 PM, said:

I've actually never heard of any of the "alternatives" they mentioned.
I wonder why the liked that toolbar...

I use WOT along with McAfee SiteAdvisor it seem to work very well it had even show sites McAfee said were safe to be bad or questionable.

http://www.mywot.com/en/wot/home/

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#4 OFFLINE JDPower

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Posted 22 February 2007 - 06:36 AM

res45, on Feb 22 2007, 02:47 AM, said:

I use WOT along with McAfee SiteAdvisor it seem to work very well it had even show sites McAfee said were safe to be bad or questionable.

http://www.mywot.com/en/wot/home/

I used that for a while but didn't like it. Its based purely on user ratings and as such I found some site ratings to be pretty silly.

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