Site Advisor! Very cool program!

finally, I found an 'Untested' site.... man they sure must have done their homework, did not see many in all the tries I had with google results for 'cracks' | 'p2p' | 'key generators'

TAS

 

lol, sorry, found something else.. decided to click on the 'submit for testing' and immediately got this...which means of course that information can be transmitted immediately back to Siteadvisor.

TAS

 

I googled with '"Homeland Security"' and those websites were all green.
So I guess the president and the US government have pretty safe websites.

Cracks, crackz were red, but also many green. Same for serials, serialz
I have mixed feelings about SiteAdvisor, nevertheless an interesting software with possibilities.

I wonder how it would react on IE-SPYAD and HOSTS websites.
A test for ShadowSurfer/ShadowUser-users

 

yeah.. theirs billions of websites online.. millions die off every day/are created.. most of them aren't worth a darn.

 

Oh for sure it isn't the be-all end-all of browsing securely, but nontheless, it does give a very good indication of the possibility of threats, etc. and with the plethora of sites out there, not all are going to be 100% correct in Siteadvisor's analysis IMO, still, as you said Erik, it is interesting.

TAS

 

I just found something really cool . If you go to register by entering your email on a site , SiteAd will give you info on whether or not you can expect spam or other crap from the site . VERY NICE

 

It is good to see a lot of positive buzz. I will start testing this today as well. If I have anything to add, I will post it.

 

Hi All,

Wait a minute! Doesn't MVPs host file keep us away from the bad places marked in red? What about IESpyad, & Spyblaster and all the passive stuff? How do the authors of SiteAdvisor determine who gets a red, yellow or green mark?

rico

 

Interesting Site Advisor Blog.

Making the Web Safer One Site at a Time....January 23, 2006

 

Isn't a project like this really doomed to failure? How can they possibly keep up with all the many many many many many many many websites?!?!?!

 

Looks like they send bots, to visit sites, then depending on what they get back, determines the color you get. I guess you could add sites to IESpyad, or Spyblaster etc. in this manner. I guess thats why many sites have those partially hidden numbers & letters, you must type. BOT's have a tough time with the partially displayed characters.

rico

 

using the mvps hosts, mikes hosts and block adverts combined, i was able to access a "red" site but most of them were usually blocked. siteadvisor rates sites based on teh amount of spam they send to ur email, downloads available on the site (if any have bundled adware), links from the page to other sites, and annoyances. i cant find detailed info but i hope u better understand it.

 

The same way Archive.org does. Invest in a lot of systems to gather the information.

 

Hi All,

WSFuser- as you stated they judge by spam (spamassassin) but you have to give the site the your email address to receive the spam. I rarely give a site, my email address. So if hosts & iespyad etc allow you through - then still use caution in giving out email. IMHO site advisor is not necessary.

rico

PS - Hope I don't have come back here, with egg on my face

 

I just spent a good amount of my day researching this program.

Here a couple of the things that I would like to see them add:

1. Cookie content statistics: I would love to see if a web site stores personal information in their cookies.

2. Add SiteAdvisor to the context menu so that when you right-click on a link, it will take you to the SiteAdvisors statistics page for that site instead of to the site itself.

So far I like the program a lot.

 

i like your idea number 2 as using the icon in teh status bar is too inconvenient. have u already emailed them ur suggestions? see this link for their email

 

Thanks! I just sent them an e-mail.

 

great program!

 

One good way to see SiteAdvisor in action is to try searching for certain "dangerous" search terms on Google or Yahoo!.

Here are some examples:
Screensavers
Free ipods
p2p
Free downloads
Wallpapers
crack sites

 

Proxomitron filters mess with SiteAdvisor...

I use Grypen's filters in Proxo, including the Google filters. I just installed the SiteAdvisor extension in Firefox, and noted that on the first Google search results page, the icons and the url are not in sync...hehe..

That is, if an icon is red for a url site, it is actually the url site above that is being rated red. If I mouse-over the icon, it gives me the info for the site above. For the very first site it gives the url and info for a site that I do not even see on the page....

It has something to do with the way the Proxo filters handle the 'sponsored sites' on Google.

Strangely, the icons and the url get back in sync on the second page of Google results....hehe..

dmc

Recent update - It appears that the 'out-of-sync' only happens when one or more of the sponsored links are red or yellow rated...I did a search where it turned out that all of the sponsored links (which are suppressed in the Grypen Google filters) are green, then the icons from SiteAdvisor and the url of the results jive....hehe...

 

i'll wait till the full version betas scare me

 

it's actually pretty sturdy, and has alot already.. okay, gmail is in beta, uh theres www.betanews.com, firefox was in beta and it was sturdy, what you should avoid is pre-alpha

 

Re: Proxomitron filters mess with SiteAdvisor...

i too use Grypens filters however for me, the icons give me info for teh site seven spots above.

 

hmmm interesting program indeed!! however, i might try it out sometime once its out of beta and more familiar with people ..seems very promising though

 

where can i get this for firefox?