Thread: Mcafee Site Advisor

as said, i have installed WOT now and disabled Mcafee Site Advisor. Let me see how good it is

Originally Posted by Raghav_K

I too thought so once... But u never know what hackers are upto these days They even infiltrated Kaspersky website i think If ur confident, then ok..


^ also bitdefender internet security installs an antiphishing plugin in web browsers... U can try the trial and am not saying anything about trial resetting bitdefender :angel: But i just disabled it cos of WOT

you are talking about hacking when we are discussing about the need of these anti phishing addons... i have different things in place on my system for the hacking bit, namely a firewall and a router, and all windows security updates, and i think its sufficient, if you still feel vulnerable don't connect to the internet :lol:.

Firthermore, even firefox and ie7 n above have this anti phishing and anti malware capability, so why go ahead installing all these unnecessary stuff on ur comp and make it a craphouse?
I have seen all this junk installed on computers, yet they have active viruses running about whom the owner doesn't have a clue about.
I call it junk since its of no use to me, as well as the Mcafee rule of running processes on the computer even when you think you uninstalled all their sw from your system.

its been approx. 18 months since i last got a malware infection, so i might think i can handle them fine...

Originally Posted by PunchsucKr

you are talking about hacking when we are discussing about the need of these anti phishing addons...

Thanks for reminding me the topic. I was just citing an example.. For non-geeks like me, the term hacker refers to the perinnial computer bad guy, who wants to steal info and maybe distrupt ur life in someway..

And when a hacker is skilled enough to hack into a security company's website, someone could be skilled enough to fool even you with his phishing skills

Originally Posted by PunchsucKr

i have different things in place on my system for the hacking bit, namely a firewall and a router, and all windows security updates, and i think its sufficient

Righto....

Originally Posted by PunchsucKr

if you still feel vulnerable don't connect to the internet .

Yeh what a cool idea..
We are discussing about computer security here and ways to improve it, not insecurity :001_tt2:

Originally Posted by PunchsucKr

Firthermore, even firefox and ie7 n above have this anti phishing and anti malware capability, so why go ahead installing all these unnecessary stuff on ur comp and make it a craphouse?

i really don't understand how a single anti-phishing addon makes ur pc a craphouse??? Are you referring to the other security stuffs like firewalls, antispyware, antimalware etc etc??? You are probably off topic

Originally Posted by PunchsucKr

I have seen all this junk installed on computers, yet they have active viruses running about whom the owner doesn't have a clue about.

it really doesnt help when there's intel inside and a mental outside the computer :P ... Again these are not 100% effective against attacks, but just another layer of security for common people (like us)

Originally Posted by PunchsucKr

its been approx. 18 months since i last got a malware infection, so i might think i can handle them fine...

I din have my compie infected for >2 yrs, so maybe these stuff helped me with that ... Well thats just me and my point of view...

Okay I dont agree with ur point of view, and i dont try to experiment much when it comes to security... For me WOT is essential and i can safely click some site i see on google search, when i see the green ring beside it, i ve avoided quite a few bad sites with it....

i rest my case

@punchsuckr

You must have heard abt the news "FIAT website (sg) being compromised" , happened somewhere on first of this month.. admins missed out to apply two patches relatively CVE-2008-2463 and CVE-2007-5659 on the server. FIAT is a well known firm and trusted source but still. Obviously peoples who visit those sites would not have secondary thought.

there are scenarios punchsuckr, when you need assitant like WOT or Site Advisor.. atleast they provide some tips while visiting those sites...more than 90% success ratio ratings. And the remaining success ratio comes from our own commonsense, as you said. Also when you see their rating structures for a malicious site...you will come to know.. how other malicious sites are linked to this main site.

I find, even these add-ons ..WOT...Site Advisor..miss out to alert us about websites that spread malicious codes.

read here.....

US-CERT announces that social networking sites including myspace.com, facebook.com, hi5.com, friendster.com, myyearbook.com, bebo.com, and livejournal.com spread malicious code. The reports indicate that the malware, named Koobface, is spreading through invitations from a user's contact that include a link to view a video. If the users click on the link in this invitation, they are prompted to update Adobe Flash Player. This update is not a legitimate Adobe Flash Player update, it is malicious code.


I dont find any clue about this in the MCafee Site Advisor site ratings for these sites!

:rockon: you guys have won!! WOT won !!

One of my client reported a phishing email from a well trusted bank today. Anyone could easily judge that it is Phishing email and the email link redirects to a fake site. When i tried that link in lab, :w00t: WOT is too good in alerting me that the site has poor rating eventhough Firefox too does pose a warning message. I immediately disabled WOT and enabled Mcafee Site Advisor. What a pity!! Mcafee Site Advisor didnt show me any alert !!

See two attachments with WOT and MSA

There are many reasons for WOT being more successful as a browser tool than McAfee Site Advisor, because it has a large community of both dedicated and ordinary users for whom it is easy to share their piece of word about a site, while, most of the McAfee Site Advisor users just use it.

Quite true. At present WOT, like Google has zero competition. Others are simply trying to exist

On a single instance so far in my association with WOT since 2 yrs.. I found it recently classifying a website as security threat which really doesn't contain any maliscious code in the couple of softwares it offers to download... Thats the price one pays cuz of a hyper-active community....

let me see some more scenarios and results...

Yes.
WOT rules.....

i tried mcafee virus s/w in my pc its occupies lot of space but it remove all virus