What antivirus lets you know which websites are bad and which ones are good?
Question by Jay: What antivirus lets you know which websites are bad and which ones are good?
I recently had Mcafee and it would tell me which websites were bad by having a red letter x beside the site and it let me know which ones were good by having a green check mark beside the good sites.
Is there any other antivirus software that does this?
Best answer:
Answer by rukahk981
Norton. But Norton sucks.
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Norton 360,though i think alot of them do now to be fair
I use NORTON 360 and have never had any problems with it. I would prefer it over other types that I”ve tried and it shows you right on there (with either a green checkmark [meaning it's deemed safe], a question mark [meaning it's not sure it's a safe site] and a red x [meaning it's not a good site.]
http://safeweb.norton.com/?gclid=CNyNuIiNxZ8CFRq1sgodeVIH_Q
AVG and afg is free or paid . the free is a better choice . It works quite well . Nothing finds them all .
Norton does. You can add Site Advisor and MyWot to your browser. They will tell you what sites are safe and what sites are dangerous.
http://siteadvisor.com
http://mywot.com
Norton Internet Security has that feature. AVG also has something like that, it’s called link scanner. You can get Mcafee site advisor without having mcafee anti-virus. It’s a add on for your browser. It’s free. Or you can get WOT (web of Trust) it’s free. There is also a free version of AVG link Scanner.
This might help (WOT) Web of trust.
http://www.mywot.com/
You are refering to McAfee SiteAdvisor. You can download the free stand-alone version of it here:
http://www.siteadvisor.com/download/windows.html
But just be aware, these sort of tools are pretty much useless, the information about the safety of a site is often several months old. And the names of the “bad” websites are constantly changing daily….sometimes even hourly.
SiteAdvisor can help a little, but its no panacea…for free you might as well use it. The price is good anyway.
AVG 9 has a link scanner in both it’s free and paid program.
AVG also offers the link scanner as a separate,free download.
There is also another called the McAfee Site Adviser that does the exact thing that the McAfee anti-virus did.
Both of these are available free at CNET http://www.download.com
my wetbroot internet essentials let me know when it block pop up windows from sites known to put spyware in your computer.