Using Browser Protection and Web Filtering
Information that browser protection sends to McAfee
Viewing safety reports
Use this task to view safety reports to obtain more information about a site's safety rating.
Task
• Do any of the following to view a safety report for a site:
From this location...
Website
Search results page
SiteAdvisor home page (www.siteadvisor.com) or
Analysis page
Information that browser protection sends
to McAfee
The client software sends the following information to the SecurityCenter for use in the Web
Filtering report:
• Type of event initiated by the client computer (site visit or download).
• Unique ID assigned by Total Protection Service to the client computer.
• Time of event.
• Domain for event.
• URL for event.
• SiteAdvisor rating for the event's site.
• Whether the event's site or site resource is added to the Exceptions list as an authorized or
prohibited site.
• Reason for action (allow, warn, or block) taken by browser protection.
Browser protection sends the following information to the SiteAdvisor website's servers:
• Version of the browser protection client software running on the client computer.
• Version of the operating system running on the client computer.
• Language and country locale selected for the operating system and browser running on the
client computer.
• Host name and part of the URL for each website the client computer requests to access.
• MD5 algorithm for each application the client computer requests to download.
When a client computer visits a website, browser protection tracks the site's domain specifier.
The domain specifier is the smallest amount of information required for browser protection to
uniquely identify the site being rated for security. The focus of browser protection is protecting
your client computers; no attempt is made to track personal Internet usage.
NOTE:
Browser protection does not send information on your company's intranet site to the
SiteAdvisor servers.
McAfee Total Protection Service Product Guide
Do this...
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Click the SiteAdvisor menu button, then select
View Site Report.
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Hold the cursor over the SiteAdvisor button, then
select Read site report.
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Click the SiteAdvisor button.
Click the safety icon following the web page link.
Type a URL in the Look up site report box.
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