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Using Browser Protection and Web Filtering
Safety reports provide details
Item
Email Results
Downloads
Online
Affiliations
Annoyances
Exploits
Reviewer and
Site Owner
Comments
Results
Website
owner
comments
Reviewer
comments
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Explanation
Overall rating for a website's email practices. We rate sites based on both how much
email we receive after entering an address on the site as well as how spammy the
email we receive looks. If either of these measures is higher than what we consider
acceptable, we'll give the site a yellow warning. If both measures are high, or one
of them looks particularly egregious, we'll give the site a red warning.
Each email link opens a detailed email analysis page.
Overall rating about the impact a site's downloadable software had on our testing
computer. Red flags are given to sites that have virus-infected downloads or that
add unrelated software which many people would consider adware or spyware. The
rating also takes note of the network servers a program contacts during its
operation, as well as any modifications to browser settings or a computer's registry
files.
Each download link opens a detailed download analysis page.
Indication of how aggressively the site tries to get you to go to other sites that
we've flagged as red. It is a very common practice on the Internet for suspicious
sites to have many close associates with other suspicious sites. The primary
purpose of these "feeder" sites is to get you to visit the suspicious site. A site can
receive a red warning if, for example, it links too aggressively to other red sites. In
effect, a site can become "red by association" due to the nature of its relationship to
red flagged domains.
Common web practices that users find annoying, such as excessive popups,
requests to change a user's home page or requests to add a site to the browser's
favorites list. We also list 3rd party cookies (sometimes known as "tracking
cookies") in this section. If a website has a lot of pop-ups and in particular, if it
engages in practices such as popping up more windows when you try to close them,
we will give that website a red flag.
Rare but extremely dangerous security threats caused by a website "exploiting" a
browser's security vulnerability. The exploit can cause the user's computer to
receive programming code which can cause adware infections, keystroke spying,
and other malicious actions which can leave a computer essentially unusable.
Reviewers and site owners can provide additional information and commentary to
supplement SiteAdvisor's automated test results.
Summary of the comments of SiteAdvisor's entire reviewer community. Reviewers
can rate sites for downloads, email practices, shopping experiences and more. This
input is particularly important in helping the SiteAdvisor community guide each
other concerning e-commerce websites. Anonymous input alone is not enough to
change a site's overall rating, but sufficient votes from registered users can affect a
site's rating.
Allows owners of analyzed websites to address our ratings. Owners are free to
comment, disagree or clarify. These comments are posted unedited after we verify
the authenticity of the person leaving the comment. We manually review all owner
comments and if an error was made, we will try our best to promptly correct it. We
don't allow sites to pay to be rated or to change or improve their ratings.
What our volunteer reviewers have to say about this website. These comments are
posted unedited.