Get to know how safe are the sites in your search result

What do you do when you Google for something, say Wallpapers? Click the links that appear on the top by making some guesses about the safety of the site. But since google doesn’t really filter the good and bad on the web[at least not extensively] you may end up at some malicious site that may infect yourPC with some virus or spyware. What if you could find out which sites were safe and which were not?

In my last post, I mentioned about open source, free antispyware Winpooch that integrates with ClamWin antivirus to provide real-time protection to your PC.

McAfee Site Advisor

All those lucky guys who use Mozilla Firefox web browser, you can make your PC more secure by getting real-time advice regarding the safety of the site and also the links that appear on webpages by installing McAfee Site Advisor plug-in for Firefox.

This plug-in gives you a button in the browser which indicates the safety of the site by changing colour — green for safe site, yellow for a bit problematic and red to warn you of the dangers.

The plug-in also gives green, yellow and red marks indicating the level of safety for the links that appear on Google search pages. [And you will be amazed to find that many sites that appear on the top of the search pages may not be very safe.]

And, if you wish to get advice before visiting a site, just go to the homepage of McAfee Site Advisor and ask. This way you don’t have to go to any suspicious site only to see the McAfee® Site Advisor button turn red giving you fears of risng your PC.

The plug-in also adds a search option in the Firefox’s search bar so that you can easily check for some advice on any site before actually going to the site.

The McAfee® SiteAdvisor Firefox Extension protects you from a variety of online nuisances and security threats such as spam, adware, spyware, viruses, and online fraud through color indicator overlays in your search results and in your status bar.