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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: May 19, 2008
- Total Downloads: 43,859
- Downloads last week: 172
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A newer version of WOT for Firefox is available.
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 85 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Consisting of a simple icon placed on your Firefox toolbar, WOT offers a drop-down menu displays all the ratings criteria, which are based on a color-coded scale. As you browse, the scale displays ratings based on the overall trustworthiness of the site, if it could be trusted as a business partner, as a keeper for personal info, or if it is safe for children. The ratings are based on the opinions of other users, and on databases of known fraudulent sites. We were able to browse as usual and pull ratings for each site that we browsed from the destination Web site as well as from Yahoo and Google search results. The scale allows you to click and drag a bar to reflect your own experience and opinion of a Web site, then auto-saves the rating. As backup, more information about each rated site can be gleaned online from WOT's reputation scorecards, where users can also comment. WOT for Firefox offers users a little peace of mind while browsing the Web and guidance in unfamiliar territory, though we still caution to use it in conjunction with other surfing safeguards.
Publisher's description
From Against Intuition :Keep yourself safe from spyware, adware, spam, viruses, browser exploits, unreliable online shops, phishing, and other Internet scams. With the free WOT browser add-on, you can easily see the reliability of companies and websites. WOT will warn you and save your computer before you interact with a harmful site.
WOT, Web of Trust, is an online community for reputation rating that lets Internet users share their knowledge of websites, helping you stay in control when surfing the Web. Besides its users, WOT uses hundreds of trusted sources such as phishing site listings to keep you protected against rapidly spreading online threats.
As you search with Google, you will see a tiny icon next to the Web link: green to go, yellow to slow down, red to stop. You can easily customize the protection level to your way of surfing the Web. WOT has information on 18 million websites. WOT ratings are shown also on Yahoo, Gmail, Wikipedia, and other sites. No registration is required. Version 20080519 adds an optional color blind accessible user interface and fixes Firefox 3 compatibility.
CNET Editor's Note: The Download Now link will prompt a local download of the Firefox extension. To install the extension directly, open the file using your Firefox browser.
What's new in this version:
Version 20080519 adds an optional color blind accessible user interface and fixes Firefox 3 compatibility.
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User reviews of WOT for Firefox 20080519
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 85 votes
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: WOT for Firefox 20080519
Pros: Easy to rate sites.
Colour-coded ratings make it easy to know what is safe and what is a dangerous site.
Warnings alert you about an unsafe site.
Cons: Could potentially be taken advantage of by online fraudsters who want to rate their own fraudulent website as safe.
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: WOT for Firefox 20080519
Pros: Nothing is good about it.
Cons: This software crashed my computer. I wouldn't wish what it did on my worse enemy. took me 1 week to get everything installed and working again. WOT=Waste of Time!
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Version: WOT for Firefox 20080519
Pros: Excellent. Works with Firefox 3.
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Version: WOT for Firefox 20080519
"a sensible community approach to web safety"
Pros: Has worked well thus far, and is based upon the common sense and common experience of the likes of you and me - the tens of millions of regular net users. Can only become more accurate and better with growing popularity. A great idea. Its ratings of vendor reliability offer information that ordinary link scanners don't offer (good to know if an online retailer is reliable).
Cons: Obviously a little patchy in terms of what is rated and what is not. But as I say - the more people use it the better it will get.
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