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Using the SiteAdvisor menu
Use this task to display menu options for accessing browser protection features.
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Click the down arrow on the SiteAdvisor menu button to view the SiteAdvisor menu.
Select this
command...
View Site Report
Show Balloon
Disable/Enable
SiteAdvisor
About
Safety reports provide details
Users can supplement the color-coded safety information for a site by viewing its detailed safety report.
These reports describe specific threats discovered by testing and include feedback submitted by site
owners and users.
Safety reports for sites are delivered from the McAfee SiteAdvisor server and provide the following
information:
Item
Summary
Established
Country
Popularity
To do this...
Display the safety report for the current site (not available when browser
protection is disabled).
You can also click Read site report in the site safety balloon.
Display the current site's safety balloon (not available when browser
protection is disabled). The balloon disappears after a few seconds, or you
can click the close button.
The site safety balloon also appears by placing the cursor over the menu
button.
Turn the browser protection client software off or on (available only when a
policy option is configured to allow this functionality).
Access a brief description of browser protection, its license agreement, and
its privacy policy.
Explanation
The overall rating for the website. We determine this rating by looking at a wide
variety of information. First, we evaluate a website's email and download practices
using our proprietary data collection and analysis techniques. Next, we examine the
website itself to see if it engages in annoying practices such as excessive pop-ups or
requests to change your home page. Then we perform an analysis of its online
affiliations to see if the site associates with other sites flagged as red. Finally, we
combine our own review of suspicious sites with feedback from our volunteer
reviewers and alert you to sites that are deemed suspicious.
The year the domain name was registered. More recently registered websites have
had less time to prove their safety and trustworthiness.
The country where a domain is registered. Keep in mind that it's sometimes more
difficult to get good customer service or resolve disputes with websites registered
outside of your country of residence.
The level of how popular the website is. Don't assume, however, that popularity
always goes hand in hand with safety. For example, some very popular prize sites
send lots of spam, and some very popular file-sharing programs bundle adware.
Likewise, many personal websites, blogs and small business sites that 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.
Using Browser Protection and Web Filtering
Safety reports provide details
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