Is there anything similar to McAfee site advisor that will tell me wich sites are bad news opening one?

Answer 1

Download this free program.

http://www.explabs.com/products/lslite.asp

Minddoctor, France

Answer 2

There are dozens of such sites and programs. Among them are

1. Badware.org - http://stopbadware.org/ (no plugin just listing)
2. Finjan SecureBrowsing - http://securebrowsing.finjan.com/index.html
3. Linkscanner (free software available also for Internet explorer and firefox) - http://linkscanner.explabs.com/linkscanner/default.asp
4. Robot Genius RGguard - http://www.robotgenius.net/technology/rgguard.jsp
5. Scandoo - http://www.scandoo.com/config.do
6. Siteadvisor (available via firefox extension) - http://www.siteadvisor.com/
7. Sitehound (liteware) - http://www.firetrust.com/firetrustsitehound.html
8. TrendProtect™ Beta Overview - TrendProtect™ Beta Overview - http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/free_security_tools/trendprotect.php
9. Web Security Guard - http://www.websecurityguard.com/

Each of them work slightly differently (how they determine what is "bad news"), for example some only periodically scan the site and store the information( SiteAdvisor) while others do a real time scan of the site (Linkscanner), each time it is requested. The former is quite dangerous because it might be clean the last time you scanned it, but it might change after that.

They also differ in terms of what type of bad news they are looking out for. Linkscanner does security exploits mainly for example.

Offhand I would say a combination of Site advisor and Linkscanner to check out a site would be good.

Answer 3

SiteHound:
http://www.firetrust.com/en/products/sitehound

Answer 4

If you're using firefox (If not then you should switch) there's an extension called WOT that works in a similar way