McAfee TSA00M005PAA - Total Protection Service Product Manual page 106

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
do not get a lot of traffic can be safe to browse and use. That's why the analysis
behind SiteAdvisor's overall verdict is so useful.
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.