WOT works or not works

An example of action and inaction of WOT:





WOT works in different ways inside browsers.
An example Pale Moon (Firefox) and Comodo Dragon (Chrome).
Sorry my bad English !!

 

You gotta be surprised when you see WOT gives a green rating for a warez website while that dang site gave you a malware infection in the past. Hmm, WOT... one of the worst failure in the history.

 

I don't understand. The images above show both giving warnings to the same site, right?

 

Your point of view on WOT is incorrect.

 

It doesn't show popup in Dragon. Possibly due to the engine.

Or it might be yours...

 

I did a search today for a medicare advantage company, search results on one company had a WOT yellow circle, didn't think that was too big a deal so I clicked it - Opera cut the connection straight away and Avast popped up a Trojan Horse has been blocked. This should have been a WOT red circle instead of a yellow one. This was on Google search, bty.

 

No, that site just monitors other sites that hosts anything until they're reported.

WOT isn't supposed to block sites, but warns instead. It works fine with the usual phishing and downloads you have to execute. Drive-by exploits never last and are rarer to encounter than lottery winners in my opinion.

WOT has its uses, but you really have to watch out for false positives, because it's very public opinion based (with lots of bots).

 

What about malicious scripts? Now I know it might be a false positive. But still, warez sites shouldn't get "green" for reliability or trustworthy for example, regardless if the site contains malicious scripts/downloads/ads or not. The only most accurate category WOT could give is child safety (adult contents is the most effective) which I mostly ignore.

 

Malicious scripts won't get rated green (unless recently hacked), that's for sure. Maybe if the general consensus of piracy changes, but until then it's going to stay like this unless the site is at least a scam or somehow dissatisfactory.

 

One could try Webutation, where WOT is one of the "ingredients"

http://www.webutation.net/

/E

 

WOT blocks political parties even if there's no malware. I don't like dictatorship.

 

Or LinkExtend

http://www.linkextend.com/

 

That's the problem, followers of rival parties spam the rating system to destroy the other party's reputation.

Or you can always find in the WOT comments religious trolls telling you that a certain adult site is full of malware even if that's not true.

 

Religious sites actually are actually more likely to be voted red than adult sites, amongst what you guys already mentioned and more.

Which is why I said WOT is very opinion-based, although they claim otherwise. Never trust it as your only source. I would've dumped it a long time ago if it wasn't effective at detecting malicious sites.

 

As they should be! +1 WOT

 

Right on, Ostrodamus!

 

And in what sense flagging religious sites as red has anything to do with protecting your computer security or privacy?

 

WOT in Chrome has inferior performance compared to Firefox,same Ghostery.

 

Adblock Plus also doesn't work very well here.

I think it's not only Chrome but also other Chromium-based browsers. There was a problem in the past with Chromium-based browsers extensions. I thought it has been solved.

 

It's because Google limits the how much of the browser extensions can affect and isolates them in different sandboxes, unlike Mozilla which basically gives free reign. In the early days, extensions had little more power than userscripts, but now more Chrome API's are open allowing powerful extensions like ScriptSafe to exist.

Performance aside, everything works fine for me even on my slow netbook (haven't compared Firefox post version 17, which was slower).

 

That's why I uninstalled WOT years ago. It makes no sense at all.

 

WOT classifies sites under a mix of criteria, security/privacy is only part of the mix.

 

continuing

 

Yes it does, it makes a lot of sense.
I've been using it for 4 years and can't recomended it highly enough. It's not perfect, of course; it's only a very efficent security tool.

 

Try extension TRAFFIC LIGHT on your browser.
It´s better than WOT.
Presents itself as a green traffic light is yellow caution and red safe not click.
Just add the options of extensions in your browser crhome, Opera or Firefox v.24.