Safe Surfing Tools

Interesting comparison of browser tools. There are alternatives to McAfee. Although not very many.

Surfing the Web can be dangerous business. We looked at five standalone safe surfing tools and compared them with the native protection within Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7.

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I've actually never heard of any of the "alternatives" they mentioned.

I wonder why the liked that toolbar...

I've actually never heard of any of the "alternatives" they mentioned.

I wonder why the liked that toolbar...

I use WOT along with McAfee SiteAdvisor it seem to work very well it had even show sites McAfee said were safe to be bad or questionable.

http://www.mywot.com/en/wot/home/

I use WOT along with McAfee SiteAdvisor it seem to work very well it had even show sites McAfee said were safe to be bad or questionable.

http://www.mywot.com/en/wot/home/

I used that for a while but didn't like it. Its based purely on user ratings and as such I found some site ratings to be pretty silly.