February 22, 2006 – 10:27 am

SiteAdvisor

Here’s a neat Firefox extension: SiteAdvisor. Watches what you’re browsing, throws an alert up if you’re looking at something sketchy — with malware, spam, phishing, etc. Also watches Google search results & proactively shows links that might give you trouble.

This is an interesting trend in new extensions for Firefox — lots of out-of-band information about what you’re looking at. First pioneered a while back by Alexa, I suppose. I particularly like the user experience of siteadvisor.

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2 Comments

  1. 1. 
    norma
    Posted February 22, 2006 at 10:03 am | Permalink

    of course I know nothing about all this, but I like this feature because the software doesn’t filter these sites out but allows the user to use his own judgement, using the information provided.

  2. 2. 
    norma
    Posted February 22, 2006 at 11:03 am | Permalink

    of course I know nothing about all this, but I like this feature because the software doesn’t filter these sites out but allows the user to use his own judgement, using the information provided.