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Protection from Adware, Spam, Viruses, Online Scams

McAfee SiteAdvisor

SiteAdvisor was founded in April 2005 by a group of MIT engineers who wanted to make the Web safer for their family and friends. Having spent one too many holiday breaks trying to clean a mess of spam, adware, and spyware from our families' computers, we decided to take action.

We realized there was a gaping hole in existing Web security products. While traditional security companies had gotten relatively good at addressing technical threats like viruses, they were failing to prevent a new breed of "social engineering" tricks like spyware infections, identity theft scams, and sites which send excessive e-mail.

To address this challenge, we built a system of automated testers which continually patrol the Web to browse sites, download files, and enter information on sign-up forms. We document all these results and supplement them with feedback from our users, comments from Web site owners, and analysis from our own employees.

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Contact

McAfee, Inc.

Sunnyvale Ca

United States 94085

+1.4089928100

Criticism

Site Advisor reviews are unmoderated, causing some reviewers to attempt to gain reputation points by putting spurious comments not supported by fact into reviews on websites. This has caused some uproar in the SiteAdvisor forums.

Languages

English

Related Domains

• McAfeeSecure.com - http://www.McAfeeSecure.com
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