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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: July 01, 2008
- Total Downloads: 4,272
- Downloads last week: 28
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 9 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Despite the proliferation of antispyware and adware blockers, spam, and viruses and other threats to your system continue to expand. This utility is designed to thwart those threats, but our tests revealed some sacrifices in speed. After a slow download and an even slower installation, Web Security Guard slowed the performance of our Internet Explorer.
Web Security Guard stumbles out of the gate like many other browser utilities by trying to be all things to all users. It adds a Crawler Toolbar to IE (a tool that slows down a Web browser probably shouldn't, for public relations reasons, name itself Crawler) that offers a search engine field and a variety of other tools, including links to maps, an online dictionary, images, weather, animated cursors, and other extras. Still more tools are on available, including desktop notes, an e-mail notifier, RSS feed reader, skins, smileys, and a form filler.
This free utility's primary function, which gets lost in its crowd of extras, is to offer alerts as you prepare to visit Web sites that may be armed with potentially dangerous viruses, adware, and other threats. Its alerts are based on a database of information about sites that may be hazardous for your systems health. The utility performed well in this regard during our tests a red warning-message box popped up in the middle of our browser window when we clicked a link to visit a site included in Crawlers database but a user is at the mercy of the quality of the databases info.
Web Security Guard would be better served by focusing on its main function and feature security and alerts and leave behind all the extras that will be redundancies for many users. Worth trying, but be beware of the slowdown in performance.
Publisher's description
From Crawler :Web Security Guard alerts helps you to prevent entering potentially dangerous Web sites that may cause adware, viruses, spyware, or spam. Free for home and office, it uses growing database of Web site ratings. Crawler Toolbar comes with Web Security Guard keeping it up to date and providing combined search results from major Internet search engines.
Protect your data and privacy, review Web site's contents and threat level before you enter a site. Version 4.5.5.2 includes unspecified updates.
What's new in this version:
Version 4.5.5.2 includes unspecified updates.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 9 votes
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Version: Web Security Guard 4.5.5.2
Pros: It is far more sensitive and better than Mcafee and Link Scanner! The crawler toolbar can be removed easily! 1. on crawler toolbar choose customize button, and general settings. 2. click advanced settings button and uncheck the show crawler toolbar in each new browser window. now in explorer right click on explorer bar and you will see crawler toolbar with a check mark in front of it, remove the checkmark and the toolbar is gone for good... :)
Cons: nothing, this program works great and I also use the spyware terminator on my other machine and that works great also... :)
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Version: Web Security Guard 4.5.5.2
Pros: This Toolbar Just Works Great for me,Firstly,It got a "block and Run away" Function.Secondly,It warns me about dangerous website when I am Searching for yahoo and google(And some others more.)Thirdly,I like the webpage (CUSTOMIZE!!!)
Cons: I have nothing much to say about websecurity guard .In Other Word,for me,IT WAS GREAT!!!!!!!!!
Summary: Summary: Websecurity guard does a great job .I didn't have any antivirus and spyware coz of this software.Virus had not enter my destop ever since I used It.In the webpage,I get to customize the thing(News,Updates,Themes,E.g)Overall I am very statis... read more >>
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Version: Web Security Guard 4.5.5.2
Pros: I love the product becaue it alerts me right away when some malicious adware spyware ect. will ibe installed on my computer.
Cons: There is nothing wrong with the toolbar.
Summary: I recently went to a website that had adware on it. When I finished browsing that website my computer acted very weird. Did scan with adware se and found the culprit I searched online for an addon for firefox that would prevent adware spyware from... read more >>
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Version: Web Security Guard 4.5.5.2
"best site adviser.prevents U from entering bad site"
Pros: Before installing W.S.G i had to formate my PC nearly everly month.
because we never know the site we r entering is GOOD one or DANGEROUS.
I am using this software form last 4 month and uptill now there is no problem.Cons: It come with crawler toolbar which can be annoying to someone. BUT let me tall you tha crawler is also a search engine like google, yahoo.With web security guard they are just promoting their product which are also free.But never force U to download.
Summary: Before installing W.S.G i had to formate my PC nearly everly month.
because we never know the site we r entering is GOOD one or DANGEROUS.
I am using this software form last 4 month and uptill now there is no problem. NOTE it is a site a... read more >> - See all 4 user reviews Write review
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