Mar
05
2006

Cool Firefox Extension

Following the great work done by SiteAdvisor in rating sites for how much unwanted junk they include with their downloads (think spyware, adware, trackers, “search-enhancers”, toolbars etc) they’ve produced a cool little Firefox extension which warns about sites that they consider “unsafe” with little icons and a statusbar highlight. Another useful weapon in your armoury to keep your PC free of nasties…

http://www.siteadvisor.com/download/ie.html

It’s also available for IE (for those who are forced to use it) - for whom it’s probably even more valuable!

Written by Tom M in: Computer Security, Science & Technology |

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  • [...] I’ve raved before about SiteAdvisor - but they now have an online quiz to see how good you are at spotting sites which will try and infect your PC with spyware in files you download from them. [...]

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