- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: December 17, 2007
- Total Downloads: 1,072,472
- Downloads last week: 1,027
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A newer version of McAfee SiteAdvisor for Internet Explorer is available.
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 573 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This handy extension for Internet Explorer makes a great addition to your Web security arsenal. SiteAdvisor draws from an enormous database of Web sites that have been checked out for spyware threats, malicious cookies, and questionable marketing ploys.
Sitting quietly at the bottom of your browser, SiteAdvisor indicates the safety rating of your current site. Green is for safe sites, yellow for sites with some questionable practices, and red for particularly dangerous sites. The color-coded rating system also annotates your Google and Yahoo search results, providing advance warning of potential drive-by spyware installation and other dangers. An available online breakdown shows what kind of testing underpins the danger assessments. We also like the extensive site profiles with user ratings, which allow you to check out a site before risking a visit.
In some cases, SiteAdvisor errs on the side of caution, labeling sites as dangerous because of minor infractions, but these are few and far in between. This free extension is an obvious choice for IE users who want better Web security.
Publisher's description
From McAfee :McAfee SiteAdvisor helps protect you from all kinds of Web-based security threats including spyware, adware, spam, viruses, browser exploits, and online scams. Our automated testers continually patrol the Web to browse sites, download files, and sign-up for things with e-mail addresses. As you search, browse, download, or register online, SiteAdvisor's safety ratings help you stay safe and in control.
Version 2.6.0.6253 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of McAfee SiteAdvisor for Internet Explorer 2.6.0.6253
- Average user rating: 3.9 stars out of 573 votes
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108 out of 108 people found this review helpful
Version: McAfee SiteAdvisor for Internet Explorer 2.6.0.6253
"Alerts you about bad web sites."
Pros: Do a Google search on anything when the web site opens, you will see a green, yellow, red, and gray circle at the end of the web links. Site advisor warns you about web sites, that can potentially damage your computer. Site advisor has tested millions of web sites, and has four different colors.
1. Green color is for all safe web sites.
2.Yellow color is web sites that after entering your email address, will send you a lot of spam mail. And downloads from a yellow web site will sometimes, change your browser settings.
3. Red color these are the most dangerous web sites, downloads from a red web site will have adware, and spyware included in the download.
4. Gray color is for web sites that have not been tested, so it's best to stay out of the gray web sites. And there are a lot of web sites, that site advisor will block automatically.
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102 out of 102 people found this review helpful
Version: McAfee SiteAdvisor for Internet Explorer 2.6.0.6253
Pros: I NEVER SEEN A PROGRAM DO THIS MUCH FOR FREE! I mean, its absolutly awesome! It's like god was watching you and guideing you to the right sites. It's like it knows what you want. It's like this program was writen by god him self. DOWNLOAD, if you know what's good for you :)
Cons: What cons can there possibly be? This is the best invention since sliced bread.
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102 out of 102 people found this review helpful
Version: McAfee SiteAdvisor for Internet Explorer 2.6.0.6253
"This program component from McAfee are very good to use."
Pros: When I am out on the Internet every day so can I see on this SiteAdvisor from McAfee what colouers it have, and when it is allmost green, so are this very good, when the current webpage are very secure to visit, sometimes can this colour made a change to grey, and even be red. And when it have been dark red, so can I understand that this webpage are a spyware program and can get some unwanted things like spyware, viruses, trojanes and other malisious threats, so when this happends, so must I turn my web browser of or click on the current webpage to stop them, and when i even are useing Mozilla Firefox so does this component work in the same direction and do the same things of course. So I can only recommend to use it to everyone.
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80 out of 80 people found this review helpful
Version: McAfee SiteAdvisor for Internet Explorer 2.6.0.6253
Pros: This is Great and it really works!!! If a person listens to McAfee warnings they can and will save headaches and mostly money!!!!!!!!!! They have NEVER been wrong yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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50 out of 50 people found this review helpful
Version: McAfee SiteAdvisor for Internet Explorer 2.6.0.6253
Pros: It has steered me away from some bad sites. It offers a lot of valuable advice. It will even let you you write a site it hasn't researched. Pretty neat! It's a KEEPER!
Cons: Nada
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