Explanation
Item
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
Online Affiliations
common practice on the Internet for suspicious sites to
have many close associations 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 pop-ups, requests to change a user's home page,
Annoyances
or requests to add a site to the browser's favorites list.
We also list third-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.
Exploits
The exploit can cause the user's computer to receive
programming code that can cause adware infections,
keystroke spying, and other malicious actions that can
leave a computer essentially unusable.
Reviewers and site owners can provide additional
information and commentary to supplement SiteAdvisor's
automated test results.
Reviewer and Site Owner Comments
Summary of the comments of SiteAdvisor's entire reviewer
community. Reviewers can rate sites for downloads, email
Results
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
Website owner comments
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.
Reviewer comments
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:
Introducing SiteAdvisor Enterprise Plus
Safety reports provide details
McAfee SiteAdvisor Enterprise Plus 3.0 Product Guide
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