- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/7/NT
- Date added: October 28, 2009
- Total Downloads: 57,516
- Downloads last week: 454
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 87 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed 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.
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 24 million Web sites. WOT ratings are shown also on Yahoo, Gmail, Wikipedia, and other sites.
What's new in this version:
Version 20091028 changes the license to GNU General Public License 3.0.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 87 votes
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Version: Web of Trust for Firefox 20091028
"A must have online security feature"
Pros: 1.Simple interface
2. Good functionsCons: None so far
Summary: A product for those who want to increase their online security.
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Version: Web of Trust for Firefox 20091028
Pros: I downloaded this because CNet thought it was a good thing to do. I do not know whether I have used it or not which I suppose is a good thing.
Cons: I would like to know if I have used this app during my use of Firefox.
Summary: I shall give it a nominal 3 stars because I don't know any difference
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Version: Web of Trust for Firefox 20091028
Pros: None that I can find. I had to disable it.
Cons: Caused Firefox 3.5.6 to crash twice within 15 minutes of installing the addon.
Summary: something is wrong with this addon. Needs to be looked at.
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Version: Web of Trust for Firefox 20091028
"Automatically downloaded Yahoo toolbar... didn't start"
Pros: also available for IE
Cons: can't stand software that automatically load bloatware... also didn't start working, so I axed it right away... might try mcafee freeware
Summary: I'll be using something else
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Web of Trust for Firefox 20091028
Pros: It's A good Programme
Cons: Nothing bad in the program
Summary: Good Program nothing bad
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