Software Description: New! Shields your PC from dangerous Web sites, no matter where they appear.
The Good: McAfee SiteAdvisor Plus is an enhanced version of their free SiteAdvisor toolbar. McAfee SiteAdvisor Plus will inform you in advance if the website you are visiting is with suspicious risks and blocks them. It supports with Internet Explorer 6 or 7, Outlook, Outlook Express, Yahoo Mail, Windows Live, Hotmail, GMail, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, and Gtalk, as well as the most popular Firefox.
The Bad: And for Internet Explorer users, the Protected Mode feature lets you lockdown ‘red’ sites with a simple password, keeping your loved ones from straying into hostile territory. SiteAdvisor Plus costs $20 ($40 for three users) but runs only on IE6 or 7 (not Firefox or Opera). The free version alerts us to much fewer sites than the paid version and advanced heuristics is not currently available.
The Bottom Line: McAfee SiteAdvisor Plus supports email programs and instant messaging programs which do well in blocking all phishing sites. It will flag the suspicious site links within IM chats and e-mail. It works with two most popular web browsers, several instant information and email platforms such as MSM, Hotmail and Gmail.
Detail Reviews:
McAfee SiteAdvisor™ Plus enhances the safety of your PC when you are browsing web sites by blocking the junk mails, adware, online scams and more. McAfee SiteAdvisor™ Plus is able to analyzes the instant information and web sites in details for intrusions or risks such as dangerous downloads, spamming, misuse of personal information and browser hijacking. With SiteAdvisor, three understandable safety rating colors can be showed: red means dangerous, yellow equals to use with caution and green stands for safe. The colors appear next to search results, helping you make informed decisions. PC World Magazine named McAfee SiteAdvisor 15th on their list of the top 100 products of 2007.
Feature set
McAfee SiteAdvisor™ Plus can efficiently protect your PC from adware, spyware, spam, viruses, phishing sites and online scams, which will tell you about the site security conditions using a colored button in your browser toolbar to enhance your online search . McAfee SiteAdvisor™ Plus will check e-mail and instant messages for risks so that you know the link is safe or not. If not, it will warn you about the danger and search results with clear messages. With password-controlled Protected Mode, you can disable all interactions of your system with dangerous sites and will be offered the important information you need to know about download of a site. McAfee SiteAdvisor™ Plus is such a 6-in-1 prevention and protection combination. It offers Safe Search and Surf, Home License Subscription Service and Stops Viruses, Hackers, Spyware as well as Improves PC Health. Its additional benefits includes protection from McAfee® Avert® Labs continuously, always upgrading and updating, real people to help and more.
Ease of use
McAfee SiteAdvisor™ Plus automatically delivers the latest software features and threat updates and guards your PC, email, IM, downloads, photos, music files, videos, financial records, online banking and shopping, and privacy from viruses, mass-mailing worms, backdoor Trojans and more so that we don’t to do it manually. It also automatically cleans or quarantines infections with minimal interruption. The automation, simplicity and varieties of functions make it easy to use.
Effectiveness
It is very effective in protecting the system when your PC is connecting to the Internet via browser or download links which blocks and removes viruses and even stops them before they even get to your PC.
Updates
McAfee SiteAdvisor™ Plus adopts daily auto-updating to protect against new threats. When new versions are available, you get them automatically at no charge, ensuring that you always have up-to-date protection.
Help/Documentation
You can get support from McAfee’s computer security experts, via Internet chat, e-mail and phone. It is very particular and considerate to offer live help but it is not frequent for people to get help by calling.
Ease of Installation
No problems occur during the installation.
Summary
McAfee SiteAdvisor™ Plus is a very outstanding product for Internet security. It makes an easy job of removing adware and spyware, something not all antivirus products deliver. Stealth Mode helps hide your presence online, making your system practically invisible to global hackers. HotSpot detection automatically elevates McAfee firewall security when you are not on your trusted network. Boot-time protection shields your system from unauthorized connections before security programs are fully loaded. These features can be something to make you believe in it as your surfing assistant.
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