There are literally uncountable websites around the world. How many sites you can suspect while there are few hundred thousand of sites to steal your identity, do phishing and harm your computer or even worse. You might say hey I have an Anti virus or personal firewall installed in my computer and I am secure. But in that case you’ve spend enough money to secure your computer. Nevertheless not every time an anti virus or firewall software can detect a fake or low privacy site. Previously I’ve tried to use SiteAdvisor from McAfee the popular anti virus maker and Internet Explorer’s Phishing site checker but honestly both of them didn’t really fit my expectations. Then recently I’ve introduced to WOT (Web of Trust) software from one of my online contacts. WOT is a Mozilla recommended security add-on that also works with Internet Explorer and has been downloaded 3 million times. WOT addon warns you about risky websites to help you avoid spyware, browser hijacking, identity theft, phishing and other Internet scams. WOT is a user contributed site checker and comes with a huge database of known sites. This software comes in a flavor of plugin for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, the 2 most used browser on the globe. It represents the safety marks in a ring format. Dark green is most safe and Dark red represents no safety at all. The colors are designed in Human behavior so it takes a less than a second to understand it. As long we understand Red light is No Go and Green light is a Go. Lets take a look at the features this product offers for Free: Read the rest of this entry »
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WOT – protecting you against scam, phishing, spyware and dangerous websites
REKO – Socialize the Links
REKO is a tool designed to track most popular sites you visit, it finds other users who have similar browsing habits. So it can make similar like minded peoples bring closer in a network. REKO uses FireFox 2.xx web browser and it comes as an extension. The Firefox add-on sends REKO the domain names of the sites you visit. It then adds these to your profile and compares them with other users to find people with similar browsing habits. These users are your neighbours, you can view their profiles to see what other sites they are visiting. REKO also allows you to upload OPML files. If you have an RSS reader, export your OPML file to find RSS reading neighbours! REKO utilises Alexa related links to give you related links based on your top browsing websites.
You will need a free account before you start using REKO. (You will need at least FireFox 2.x )
