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Re: WEB OF TRUST FOR FIREFOX AND INTERNET EXPLORER
WOT (Web of Trust) is also very similar to the free Download of McAfee SiteAdvisor Firefox extension.
I've been using the McAfee version, but I tried WOT too. It kind of helps you avoid the sites checked with a red X.
For an example of this bad-site, try Googling IMQQ. All of China would rather have you trust them with their English version of their IM software, but Pidgin will work just as well without the software.
Also please try the RequestPolicy 0.5.8 Firefox Addon. This extension will "take apart" the website if you'll allow me to call it that. For example, after you install RequestPolicy, you'll suddenly discover a red-flag icon at the lower right of the Firefox window. It's to the right of where the No-Script icon would be. Then when you click on the red flag you'll suddenly discover all of this forum's "helpers" from other sites. You know, ChipIn, etc. Also drugstore.com does that too... I mean, you'll suddenly see NO IMAGES at Drugstore with RequestPolicy. That's because "A-HA!" They use a go-to-middleman for the images. So do you want the middleman to show you images? Well I hope you at least allow that for drugstore.com. Then you can selectively allow people one at a time. Now this can get majorly confusing for you, if you also install NoScript. Now you've got to bother to piece together the web site as if you were the webmaster... allowing ONE module at a time.
RequestPolicy can take some getting used to, but if you were frustrated with a virus in the past, this little addon "almost" guarantees you won't get a virus from a secret middleman ever again. Now if you've got a whole different hacking issue on your end, such as: "Well the CIA/NSA parked their van down the street and literally sniffed everything I'm doing, etc... the phone company's secret Copy Of Everything server room somehow did me in with this man in the middle attack, etc..." Well then I don't know how you managed to get in that deep to have an alphabet agency openly hack you down the street. You have to have a good reason why you have a boatload of things running in the taskbar at the lower right. Usually there's something running that's less secure that you "somehow GOTTA HAVE". I mean, you Gotta have something running, or you'll fall apart? Come on. I mean, did you WANT to know why your computer was less secure, or NOT? What apps running at the lower right in the traybar do you HAVE TO HAVE, or else you'll fall apart?
A wide, and perhaps
: confusing, openness to a multiplicity of inspiring
: potentialities.
: The website of PC Magazine has a detailed review dated August
: 13 of Web of Trust, described as a free browser add-on that
: "supplies ratings for over 23 million sites, which it
: derives from user reports, other Web sites, and malware
: databases." PCMag's Bottom Line: "It doesn't rate
: every site, but it's free and will help you avoid most
: unreliable sites."
To get started, download, install, and
: register the free Firefox or Internet Explorer plug-in from
: www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/downloads/wot .
: Choose an initial protection level—Basic, Light, or Parental
: Control—and you're done.
: I am merely passing along something discovered while finding
: material for an earlier post today .
: It looks easy enough to try out. At minimum this shows that
: talent and skill is being applied to the matter of Public
: Trust on the internet, specifically.
: "Buyer Beware."
: Web of Trust is claimed to help with anxieties of
: MANY LITTLE BIRDS ON A LIMB OF A BIG TREE
: trying not to be overwhelmed with
: enormous potentialities in the
: Lunar Cycle started August 20.
