When you are on the Internet you face a dilemma. You do not know an awful lot about new sites that you visit. You do not know much about the company or people that operate a website for instance. That may not be a problem on sites that you just access for information, but what [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

Internet users have lots of choice to add extra protection to their web browser. Those who have installed an Internet security software usually get a browser toolbar or protection plugin delivered with that. Those who make use of a standalone malware scanner can install popular browser extensions like Web of Trust or Link Extend for [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Internet Explorer

Web of Trust is a community driven website reputation service. It is available as a look-up service on the company website, and as an automated software for various web browsers. The service is being used by millions to verify a website’s reputation before the site is visited. The browser extensions handle those checks automatically and [...]

Categories: Facebook, Security

For anti-phishing tools to work, phishing sites must be identified to analyse and to warn people about. Sites like Web of Trust allow users to share information about phishing sites, but scores of similar tools exist and as it would be counter-productive for each to maintain their own database of phishing sites. PhishTank centralises phishing [...]

Categories: Security

Firefox users can choose between several website and link information add-ons including Web of Trust or AVG Linkscanner. The Firefox add-on Link Extend takes the concept to the next level. It combines computer safety, child safety, company ethics, and popularity tools in one add-on. The computer safety services alone consist of the eight services Web [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

If you compare the add-ons that are available for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer with those available for the Firefox web browser you will soon discover that there are not many Internet Explorer add-ons that one would consider “must-have”. It is not really clear why Firefox add-on developer are more productive. Could be that it is easier [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

Most systems which warn of unsafe websites, like OpenDNS and Google, work in mysterious, non-transparent ways and websites are often deemed as unsafe for reasons other than safety. Web of Trust is a Firefox extension which rates the safety of websites based on ratings received by other users of the plug-in. Users rate websites on [...]

Categories: Browsing, Security