Mcafee siteadvisor alternative?

johnsmi

Hi folks,

For years I have used mcafee siteadvisor plugin mainly to flag up dangerous sites when doing a search with google. Now the free version no longer works well with google (just one page of google search results flaged by siteadvisor) wants me to use yahoo instead which I don't want to.

I have avg installed and used to remember that the old version of avg had thsi as well, cant get it to run on avg 2011. I dont want to use a search toolbar such as the one offered by avg (which seems to not want to install because of zone alarm firewall which is incompatable with it)

Anyone know of a good alternative to mcafee siteadvisor?

thanks very much
John

aliEnRIK

I wouldnt trust any of them. Theyre only as good as their updates

Id recommend FIREFOX with the NOSCRIPT plugin to stop them. Or use a SANDBOXIE

closed

Google does it anyway.



ZA and AVG .. not the best combination, try avast, malwarebytes and windows firewall if you want a speedy machine.

santer_2

You could also have a look at Calling ID Link Advisor

http://www.callingid.com/linkadvisor/How-It-Differs.aspx

Andrew1472

I use WOT (web of trust). It just a simple traffic light system - red for danger etc. It has never misled me as far as I know.
I can't post links yet so just google WOT

It's also available in add ons in Firefox and extensions in Chrome

HoofeHearted

+1 for WOT

DatabaseError

or just firefox, most dodgy sites are flagged straight away (or maybe that's openDNS doing that..I really can't remember )