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]]> by: Kevin K. http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2997#comment-21811 Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:39:01 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2997#comment-21811 Well, it's practically impossible to just look at an image of a webpage and tell if it's malicious or not. I got all but two correct but one I "missed" was one that servers up bad ActiveX elements and you can't tell that it would do that merely by looking at it. So the test is "cute" at best. The key is that it's telling you, since you can't tell by looking at a page, the best way is to tell before you even go there and that's what the plugin purports to do which is actually a good thing. You can also go to some safe web browsing sites that will query the page first and show you the HTML which you can peruse for evil code (samspade.org used to do this and might still do) but you have to have knowledge of what you need to recognize which most people don't. I have used Google for searching and some top results that appeared good, based on the preview text in the results, were clicked and caused me hours of frustration because, even though the result seemed legitimate, the actual site was not. So having a rating applied to search results would definitely stop me, an expert user, from accidentally accessing malicious pages. Kevin Well, it’s practically impossible to just look at an image of a webpage and tell if it’s malicious or not. I got all but two correct but one I “missed” was one that servers up bad ActiveX elements and you can’t tell that it would do that merely by looking at it. So the test is “cute” at best.

The key is that it’s telling you, since you can’t tell by looking at a page, the best way is to tell before you even go there and that’s what the plugin purports to do which is actually a good thing.

You can also go to some safe web browsing sites that will query the page first and show you the HTML which you can peruse for evil code (samspade.org used to do this and might still do) but you have to have knowledge of what you need to recognize which most people don’t.

I have used Google for searching and some top results that appeared good, based on the preview text in the results, were clicked and caused me hours of frustration because, even though the result seemed legitimate, the actual site was not. So having a rating applied to search results would definitely stop me, an expert user, from accidentally accessing malicious pages.

Kevin

]]> by: Josh http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2997#comment-21805 Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:44:23 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2997#comment-21805 This quiz isn't that accurate. After taking it and actually getting 7/8, it said that I was unable to accurately identify an evil site, while I actually identified a "good" site as evil.... ( I picked E-Mule as a spyware site) This quiz isn’t that accurate. After taking it and actually getting 7/8, it said that I was unable to accurately identify an evil site, while I actually identified a “good” site as evil…. ( I picked E-Mule as a spyware site)

]]> by: David Johnston http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2997#comment-21783 Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:49:16 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2997#comment-21783 I only got 8 out of 10 right, and many of them were just guesses. Though, I don't usually go looking for MSN Messenger smilies, etc. and ActiveX is only a problem if you're using IE. That said, SiteAdvisor is a great extension to have. We have actually mentioned it before here: http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2608 I only got 8 out of 10 right, and many of them were just guesses. Though, I don’t usually go looking for MSN Messenger smilies, etc. and ActiveX is only a problem if you’re using IE. That said, SiteAdvisor is a great extension to have.

We have actually mentioned it before here: http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2608

]]> by: Stephen http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2997#comment-21782 Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:42:51 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2997#comment-21782 How long before McAfee starts charging for this? I took a look at the test. Yes you can't tell by looking at a site whether it will try to drop some spywear into your system but that's not the point of being an educated computer user. Just take a look at the sites.....free this...free that. You would have to be very stupid about the way things work on the net to think you're getting something for nothing on these sites. As for the P2P sites, you can check out the review on any of the major download sites to see if the apps are free of spywear. I guess some people wil just need their hands held but I can't see the majority of the readers here actually needing this. How long before McAfee starts charging for this? I took a look at the test. Yes you can’t tell by looking at a site whether it will try to drop some spywear into your system but that’s not the point of being an educated computer user. Just take a look at the sites…..free this…free that. You would have to be very stupid about the way things work on the net to think you’re getting something for nothing on these sites. As for the P2P sites, you can check out the review on any of the major download sites to see if the apps are free of spywear. I guess some people wil just need their hands held but I can’t see the majority of the readers here actually needing this.

]]> by: John http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2997#comment-21774 Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:42:11 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/2997#comment-21774 I tried this, and seems to be pretty good. Fits in well with other Firefox extensions. I tried this, and seems to be pretty good. Fits in well with other Firefox extensions.

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