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McAfee SiteAdvisor

McAfee SiteAdvisor makes the whole security scene easy to understand, with a simple traffic light system to determine Website safety ratings . . . red, yellow and green. What could be simpler?  The name McAfee is synonymous with website safety and tests websites for spam, spyware, phishing, browser exploits and with the great service of automatic updates you can be sure that McAfee is looking after your best interests all of the time.

McAfee SiteAdvisor works in conjunction with 20 search engines including the “biggies”, Yahoo, Google, AOL, Bing and Ask. More than 200 million downloads don’t lie, it’s popular because it’s good. Once you’ve installed McAfee SiteAdvisor onto your computer you will notice that the browsers looks slightly different to how it looked before, but it’s all in the name of safety. Your search results will have small site rating icons (just to let you know whether it’s safe to proceed), if you find a site which looks a bit risky then you can simply search for a safer alternative. How does McAfee SiteAdvisor base the ratings? Well, it’s all based on tests which have been conducted with an army of computers searching for the many different kind of threats around.

It really does show you very quickly and clearly when it’s safe to proceed, and when you should NOT go there!