Site Ratings/Linkscanner Recommendations

What are your latest recommendations for Site Ratings/Linkscanner software?

I have been using McAfee SiteAdvisor and AVG Linkscanner for a long time, but I am thinking about uninstalling McAfee SiteAdvisor and replacing it with something else.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in Advance.

 

I like WOT. To do a test on it have WOT and both Link Scanner installed and do a search result on Screensavers. See which rating program protects you better by what rating the site got and for what reason.

 

I like BitDefender TrafficLight for Chrome. What I really like about it is that you can shorten URL to links to share to friends and at the same time, BitDefender scans the link for malicious content.

 

If you want I can PM a link where you can grab malicious URLs/Domains and you can then copy and paste the domains in the search engine and see which will perform better.

I must say that LinkScanner's Search-Shield performs really bad. lol

On the other hand, TrafficLight performs quite well.

 

Yes. Please PM me the link.

Also, how "buggy" is TrafficLight? Does TrafficLight work OK with Firefox 5.0?

Thanks.

 

I can't say. I use Chromium. But, according to this post it runs OK.

 

TrafficLight addon is working fine on my Firefox5, no bugs or issues.

Bo

 

I run Firefox in a Sandboxie sandbox. How do you update TrafficLight? Is it "cloud" based, and you only need to update the software version periodically or does it frequently download and store new signatures? When you do a software version update, do you uninstall the old version first or do you just go ahead and install the new version?

Thanks in Advance.

 

When its time to update, do it on your real Firefox, out of the sandbox.
I also use Sandboxie and TL does not seem to have any issue at this
time with FF or SBIE.
You should update the same way as you update your other Firefox
addons. As far as I can tell, all is done in the cloud so Firefox is not using
additional resources, at least I don't feel any lags because I am using it.

Bo

 

Which version of TrafficLight do you recommend to install? I see a choice of Windows (more protection?) and one for the web browser only.

Thanks.

 

I prefer the addon since you are getting extra protection with no wasted
resources. Personally, I would not use the installer at this time. Maybe in
the future will work better but my understanding is that at this time, it is
using plenty memory and CPU.
I did use the installer when it first came out and memory on my FF went
up to about 600MB, not good, have not installed it ever since.

Use the addon, no wasted resources, extra protection.
-https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/trafficlight/-

Bo

 

I recommend TrafficLight as well. LinkExtend is great for ratings, but can't block for some reason (even though Chrome version can). WOT is effective as well, but with plenty of false positives.

 

Why not use NortonDns and a site rating or linkscanner software ? With this approach you can get better protection . I use Dr. web linkchecker, norton dns and Wot. Wot however shows many false positives as it is based on user ratings.

 

Yep... If you couple a decent rating service with a decent DNS service, it's better than just one.

Also don't forget that Firefox makes use of Google Safebrowsing, so there's at least 3 domain rating services: TrafficLight, Norton DNS and Google Safebrowsing.

 

I already have NortonDNS (on my Cable/DSL Router).

I just installed the TrafficLight Firefox Add-On on my oldest PC. I also have WOT and AVG LinkScanner installed on that PC. TrafficLight seems to work fine with no significant slow downs.

 

On my newest PC, I uninstalled McAfee SiteAdvisor (using MCPR.exe) because the current verion os SiteAdvisor is no yet compatible with Firefox 5.0. I then upgraded to Firefox 5.0 followed with the installation of the TrafficLight Firefox Add-On. TrafficLight seems to be working OK. Now I have TrafficLight & AVG LinkScanner installed on my newest PC. I may later add WOT.