Is there any way to check a website (or even a link) for potential danger BEFORE you click and find out the hard way? How can I know if a site is "bad" other than word of mouth? It seems like every time I run Ad-Aware to scan for malware, dad-gum-it, there's always those pesky "negligible objects" - I know they're not horrible, they're "just" cookie trackers - but, if there wasn't something to them, why does Ad-Aware (& other antispyware programs) find them & call them to our attention? No matter what I do, I obviously can't avoid the ad companies who insist on letting greed and spyware creeps use us all! Am I wrong? If so, then, help me! In addition to Ad-Aware, I have AVG, Spyware Guard, & Windows firewall-any suggestions? BTW, last week I had the Win32 Trojan virus - from where? How did it get past me & all these seemingly useless protectors?
2007-07-07 19:36:48 · 2 answers · asked by ? 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
McAfee has a free site check and advice service here:
http://www.siteadvisor.com/
I highly recommend the anti-spyware software that I use, you can get a free 15 day trial of the full program and see what it picks up. You may be surprised to see what it finds.
Regards, Zyfert
http://spyware.cybersprout.com
2007-07-07 19:43:29 · answer #1 · answered by Zyfert 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2016-08-27 01:14:42 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋