Poll: Do you use siteadvisor, netcraft toolbar or anything similar?

[Pietzki]

Hey everybody, just curious as to how many of you use extensions like mcafee siteadvisor, netcraft toolbar, finjan or linkscanner.

I suppose a lot of you would be using siteadvisor as it comes with firefox..right?

 

[alyoob]

Love SiteAdvisor

 

[TFT]

Hell no, I don't want another toolbar nor do I want another add-on that will slow it down anymore.

 

[Pietzki]

bump... (c'mon, 3 votes??)

 

[Pietzki]

Hell no, I don't want another toolbar nor do I want another add-on that will slow it down anymore.

hmm, i suppose that's one way of looking at it..but how do you know which websites to stay away from? Personally, I prefer a page loading a few milliseconds slower as opposed to getting a new infection from a dodgy website every couple of months...

 

[INTELCRAZY]

Is this a joke? Those things are useless... I know which websites to stay away from, don't download music in .exe form is a good tip to have.. It doesn't take a genius to figure out "Hey, this isn't right".

 

[addle_brains]

Norton automatically installed it's anti-phishing filter on IE. Good thing I use firefox.

 

[robina_80]

when you install avast it gives you the option to install it so ive got the avast one

 

[Le GoogelGuRu]

After switching from Firefox to Opera, I don't use SiteAdvisor anymore but when I used IE and Firefox I loved the extension.

 

[Pietzki]

Is this a joke? Those things are useless... I know which websites to stay away from, don't download music in .exe form is a good tip to have.. It doesn't take a genius to figure out "Hey, this isn't right".

but how about other executable files you may want to download? For example, how would you know that This site is ok to download from? Or what about the ever popular and malware ridden search for screensavers? Do you just not download anything you've never heard of before? I'd find that quite, well, limiting...

You say you know which websites to stay away from, considering how many new websites there are every day I find that quite unbelievable.. To exemplify, which of these websites would you go to and which would you stay away from? Not easy to tell aye? You could of course just stay away from all websites that offer free screensavers, themes, ringtones, pc utilities, porn, or any other download sites you don't know, but then you couldn't make use of most of the good stuff available on the web for free... It'd be like buying a ferrari and then only ever driving in the 40 zone, wouldn't it?

Remember, some of those add-ons aren't just for phishing sites, siteadvisor for example tests downloads as well.

when you install avast it gives you the option to install it so ive got the avast one

interesting, I forgot about that one..so what is it like? Is it only against phishing or bad downloads as well?