The web becomes more dangerous every day. Malware has become ubiquitous, scam sites proliferate, and there are constant privacy dangers. Children can easily stumble on sites that aren't suitable for them. What to do? Try WOT (Web of Trust), an excellent - and free - browser add-on that offers protection.
WOT (Web of Trust) rates every site for trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy, and child safety, and shows you the results using simple-to-scan coloured icons. (Red for bad, green for good.) When you do a search in Google or another website, you'll see the icons and know what you're in for if you visit.
You can also visit the WOT (Web of Trust) rating for each site to see why it was given its rating, and read reviews by people who have visited the site.
WOT (Web of Trust) offers other protections as well. When you visit a site with a red rating, you first get a big warning on your screen. That way, you can either navigate away or click through at your own peril.
And when you're on any website, click the WOT (Web of Trust) button in Firefox and you'll be shown details about the site's rating as well. You can view information and ratings about Trustworthiness, Vendor Reliability, Privacy, and Child Safety.
The newest version of WOT (Web of Trust) has four levels of safety from which you can choose, including Lite, which shows ratings icons only for dangerous sites, all the way up to Parental Control, which in addition to blocking dangerous sites, also blocks sites not suitable for children. In addition, WOT is now available for Internet Explorer 8.0 (although not earlier versions of Internet Explorer), as well as for Mozilla Firefox as an add-in.
Comments
MW said: I Know for a fact that WOT mis represents the trustworthiness of sites based on flimsy evidence How do I know this I work for one of the best regarded companies in the UK that owns and operates one of these sites my team runs and supports the website and rates is rated by WOT as poor For obvious reasons I am unable to say which site or company but I think that is fair to all parties But with a little digging into a site looking at registered company nos etc and see who the owns these sites some actual FACTS can emerge Nuff said use your own judgement PC Advisor deeper research please
wilwildwest said: Web of Trust WOT is a scam As of 2112013 they have a google pagerank of 2 Hardly an endorsement from google What they are doing to make you buy their seal should be illegal Dont be fooled
Sin said: WOT is an appalling tool which is heavily abused by users who instead of rating a web site fairly within the set criteria laid down it merely becomes a list of wholesome web sites a small panel of right wingopinionatedusers happen to agree with WOTin realityactually infringes of the freedom of others to see information unhindered and to make an proper informed choice as the data they hold on many web sites is false
myWOT lies said: WOT is a bad tool and mywotcom needs to be shut down The addon is so abused by users that its now nothing more than a tool to black list sites you disagree with and offers NO security whatsoever and mywotcom is doing nothing to solve the community abuseyou can read my personal experience with them herehttpwwwpcadvisorcoukrev