WOT site advisor
Last Updated on Saturday, 24 October 2009 15:55 Saturday, 24 October 2009 15:44
WOT is a free Internet security addon for your browser. It will keep you safe from online scams, identity theft, spyware, spam, viruses and unreliable shopping sites. WOT warns you before you interact with a risky website. It's easy and it's free.
As it is a colloborative service, you can participate in it by rating sites and adding comments that will help other users to know more about a site they visit.
If a site is rated as harmful, it is block that site from appearing on your site, and give you an option to stay away from the site or visit it if you insist. It is particularly helpful if you are doing a web search. The WOT plugin will add green, yellow and red circles in front of the site links in an web search indicating a safe, doubtful and harmful site. WOT has perhaps the worlds largest database of website ratings. You can add the plugin to Internet explorer as well as Firefox browser from this link.
WOT bosts of following features
- Over 5 million users
- Ratings for over 24 million websites
- WOT safety ratings appear beside search results in Google, Yahoo!, Live Search, Wikipedia, digg,
- WOT warns you about dangerous links in Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail, and Yahoo! Mail
- Read comments about websites from other users
- The WOT browser addon is light, easy to use, and updates automatically
- Option to block sites that are not safe for children
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