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Web of Trust for Firefox

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CNET Editors' review

by: CNET staff on November 24, 2009

Web of Trust (WOT) for Firefox provides users with a simple meter for gauging a Web site's danger level. With easy to read warnings, this program only leaves one thing to chance with your safety.

The program does not have anything to offer on your computer's desktop because it embeds itself into your Firefox browser for quick access. Depending on the Web site you visit, the program's icon turns red, yellow, or green to illustrate the danger level. Clicking on the icon displays a chart showcasing Trustworthiness, Vendor Reliability, Privacy, and Child Safety. The warnings are intuitive and should not require a trip to the Help file to understand. The program functioned well for our tests, glowing green for popular news sites and red for less reliable pages. Our only complaint is that users must dig into the settings menu to have WOT stop a dangerous site from opening on your computer. So until that time, concerned users may be exposed to potentially harmful sites. However, once this is activated, the program does a great job of warning you and providing the option to continue or stop. WOT also provides interesting features that allow worldwide users to rate Web sites for danger, thus creating an online community of like-minded people.

With a simple interface, easy-to-understand functions, and interesting features, we found this freeware to be a helpful download for users looking to increase their online security.

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Publisher's Description

From WOT Services:

With Web of Trust for Firefox, 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.

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 31 million Web sites. WOT ratings are shown also on Yahoo, Gmail, Wikipedia, and other sites.

What's new in this version: Version 20120302 has fixed not updating the user interface before settings are loaded.

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All User Reviews
  • All versions:

    3.8 stars

    out of 139 votes

    • 5 star: 74
    • 4 star: 20
    • 3 star: 11
    • 2 star: 7
    • 1 star: 27
  • Current version:

    2.6 stars

    out of 5 votes

    • 5 star: 2
    • 4 star: 0
    • 3 star: 0
    • 2 star: 0
    • 1 star: 3
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  • 1.0 stars

    "WOT is a fraud, a scam."

    May 28, 2012  |   By Ken_Rich

    Version: Web of Trust for Firefox 20120302

    Pros

    No pros - run - it's an extortion racket. They use lies and slander to attack legitimate sites, even Ministries and orphanages.

    Cons

    It's a scam. They ruin reputations so that they can sell back reputations - it's extortion.

    Summary

    Ostensibly they seem to have a good purpose, but that's an illusion. Dig a little deeper and you will find a money making racket that maliciously damages and destroys legitimate sites and people. I complained about their lies and slander and was banned. The same story thousands have.

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  • 5.0 stars

    "Good as a concept"

    May 15, 2012  |   By AAugustoCruz

    Version: Web of Trust for Firefox 20120302

    Pros

    Practical and easy to use and understand...

    Cons

    People is using WOT to classify, as dangerous, all the sites that belong to Religions as Hinduism and Buddhism. Sites that do not sell a thing are said to not deliver goods and so on.

    WOT is being used as a Weapon to disseminate Hate!!!

    Summary

    I tried to warn about this and do not succeeded. There is no answer from the developers.

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  • 1.0 stars

    "MyWOT is Biased. Bad sites rated good and vice versa."

    May 2, 2012  |   By Felimingo

    Version: Web of Trust for Firefox 20120302

    Pros

    No pros to write here.

    Cons

    1) Mass rating system. One platinum member can turn a website reputation down from Green to RED!. People rating websites are not customers to write reviews.

    2)Some users attack businesses to sell back the Green (good) reputation to that business at a fee.

    3) No customer service to complain the fraud.

    4) Rude staff when you report the problems to them

    5) Any one rate MyWOT on their own website scoreboard will get banned from their website and the comment will be removed. Serious ethical issue.

    Summary

    MyWOT is false, corrupted and fraud like. Should not be trusted.

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  • 5.0 stars

    "The one who smelt it dealt it..."

    March 23, 2012  |   By ND925dealz

    Version: Web of Trust for Firefox 20120302

    Pros

    Free to users
    Multi Browser compatible
    User driven reviews
    Prevents malware infections before they happen
    Best thing since sliced bread

    Cons

    None so far in 4 years of usage.

    Summary

    The only folks who dislike WOT are the damn marketers who use inappropriate methods and malicious content to data mine and spam you, or sell your info. WOT is the before antivirus prevention to protect users while browsing, shopping, or downloading anything online. Will continue to recommend WOT to anyone who asks my advice for safer internet browsing.

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  • 1.0 stars

    "Rico Racket

    WOT and FaceBook potential Rico litigation"

    March 11, 2012  |   By ricoact

    Version: Web of Trust for Firefox 20120302

    Pros

    N/A There are no pros to this organization.

    Cons

    There is suspicion and accusation that WOT and/or its members (platinum level) offer solutions to remove bad ratings for a fee. WOT offerings to pay to play, those that publicly criticize these practices get banned and other similar activities are consider by law as extortion, bribery, racketeering, mail and wire fraud. The fact that FaceBook is in a partnership with and utilizes WOT services may also implicate FB with the same or similar charges.

    These are serious charges and if proved in court could land the defendants huge rewards therefore the motivation to pursue a class action RICO case suit is there, as well as criminal charges. The SHTF is coming. And FB has real deep pockets.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act

    Summary

    Start documenting everything, investigate, probe, build a witness list, etc. in preparation for the inevitable litigation that this potential and possible Rico organization has formed.

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