Re. McAfee SiteAdvisor

I have used this for a few years but noticed recently that if I 'Disable' -
it very quickly helps itself to 'Enable' and I must click 'Disable' every
few minutes.

Can anyone please advise if there is a better one for doing the same job ?
- I have never liked anything 'McAfee' but got this when it was owned
by others - On 'Curr Ports' there used to be one IP address for SiteAdvisor showing when it
was running but lately there can be 4 or 5 simultaneously and I'd like to
get rid of it because I just don't know what it's up to, other than
contributing to the slowing of my machine via these multi IP addresses.

 

I use finjan which seems to work pretty well.

http://www.finjan.com/Content.aspx?id=1460

http://securebrowsing.finjan.com/

As for site advisor, I just use a little on demand browser plug-in.

http://www.iecustomizer.com/

 

Thanks acr. - I shall take a look at Finjan.

 

You mean, this is really almost the same with McAfee SiteAdvisor and even more better?

Does it consume memory and will not slow down net speed browsing?

 

I just installed the two...

But results are sometimes are different, well, whom should I trust?

 

I am considering installing one of the following: Finjan, Web Security Guard or CallingID. Haven't decided which one. Would welcome any recommendations or comments. Thanking you in advance.

 

As far as I can tell it will only check the site if you click the button on the toolbar. It does not slow memory. I don't even see it running a process. It will just open up a new window with the site's SA ratings.

 

Of those three I would stay away from Web Security Guard simply because it is affiliated with Crawler. Maybe that is not much of a reason to some people but it is to me.

Finjan just scans search results and a select few sites like My Space. I have not noticed it slowing down my surfing at all. I think Finjan gets mised results from different users. But it is the one I chose after trying about all of them.

Calling ID, I tried but decided if I was going that route I would just use Link Scanner Lite instead. I believe LSL uses some of the Calling ID results, among others. But then Kaspersky did not play well with LSL so I am not using either of them. I may try Calling ID again sometime but only the url link advisor.

 

Another app. worth to look at: Link Scanner

http://www.explabs.com/

Gerard

 

Gerard, ....this is not free like others. ....but maybe...it still does a good job.

 

Sorry, I didn't know it has to be free

Gerard

 

Link Scanner Lite is free, though. It will check url's and search results. But it always is running and has been known to conflict with a few av's in the past.

 

Which AV's?

Gerard

 

There was a long time conflict with Nod32 and I believe it had something to do with each program wanting to load first at start-up. I am not sure if that has been completely fixed yet or not but there were several attempts to rectify the issue.

There is also an issue (though not necessarily a conflict) with KAV/KIS as it scans alongside LSL during search engine results. So when there is a malicious search result link KIS pops up. I guess that could be considered good in a way because KIS is scanning the search results (although not sure if this is like the web scan or what)- or probably whatever is going through LSL. But if you get a search result that has several malicious sites KIS just goes crazy.