http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2991 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: McAfee SiteAdvisor en-US Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:43:52 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/search.php http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2991#post-28319 Sat, 03 May 2008 09:23:30 +0000 hotdoge3 28319@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I went to <a href="http://www.stopbadware.org/home/reports" rel="nofollow">http://www.stopbadware.org/home/reports</a> &#38; check with McAfee SiteAdvisor on the bad AntiVirus McAfee said good? so may be Red is good, green go a way? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2991#post-24240 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:43:38 +0000 OldandSlo 24240@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Let me also add my Thank-you to you BuBBy.<br /> I installed WOT and will see how it works for me. Having a reliable security system is something I am striving for. Being a novice to the ways of the computer and the internet, I have been reading these forums and all the great info from you and all the nice people here. I have learned some - just enough to be dangerous - but am very poor at understanding how to put a lot of the info into practice. Maybe someday, if I live that long - LOL, I will be able to do the things I need to and would like to do.<br /> Again thanks to all who so generously give links, threads, advice, how-to's, info, etc., and especially their time.<br /> Old&#38;Slo </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2991#post-24221 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:14:15 +0000 funkymom 24221@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>thanks bubby.<br /> i installed wot last night.<br /> :D </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2991#post-24130 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:22:19 +0000 Paulga 24130@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Nice one BuBBY ! since my post last night i took up your tip, i installed WOT ( Web Of Trust ) and of course my own choice was to ununstall McAfee Site Advisor, i was asked what was my reason, in short i said as long as i was visiting and downloading from GOTD i never<br /> had a bad download and the links classed as Trojan/Adware did not reside on the site but were games when played linked back to the developer to display further games they had on offer and that most security programs link back to the developer to upgrade! anyway it wont bother those of us who know that a Trojan/Adware is not any harm, just an annoyance.<br /> I am waiting for a reply from McAfee ? i could be waiting ?</p> <p> Paulga </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2991#post-23921 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:14:09 +0000 Robert 23921@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I'd suggest using <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2991?replies=12#post-23841">WOT</a> as BuBBy did advise us to. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2991#post-23919 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:09:02 +0000 jinkazama 23919@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>McAfee slows down my computer... i'm using avast instead although would love to have Nod32... </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2991#post-23910 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:10:02 +0000 Paulga 23910@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Backdoor-AWQ Trojan, only four of them,but i for one will not worry about them, Adware<br /> thats all, and three were for Games and the other PSPmovies.exe, not from this site, and<br /> would i consider these as Trojans, "well NO" ,Advertising Yes,Adware Yes, but harmful NO,<br /> Most Games you download and play will connect to the source to introduce you to further<br /> games on offer,your Firewall will ask do you wish to allow or deny, do so a few times<br /> and no further connection will take place, heavy handed by McAfee yes, re classify what<br /> is a Trojan, maybe, lots of programs have a file within a file, like updates and so,<br /> you all know this, so dont worry about it, just look at McAfee in a diffirent light,<br /> dimmer perhaps!<br /> Paulga </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2991#post-23881 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:14:23 +0000 Buckleysmom 23881@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>We had McAfee for a year and it drove me nuts. It caused more peoblems than it found. Now we use Bit Defender. We also run PC Tools antivirus, Spyware Doctor, Threatfire, and Spy Sweeper all of which were free and are working fine. Bit Def is the only one I ever deal with, hubby handles all the rest but there are no more issue/problems since we gave McAfee the boot. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2991#post-23872 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:50:10 +0000 goodgotd 23872@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I'll install this on the front room computer jic it performs well and a different kind of safety belt. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2991#post-23851 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:03:19 +0000 jinkazama 23851@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>@copmom, i agree. removing those links from GOTD's forums </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2991#post-23846 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:42:17 +0000 copmom 23846@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>BuBBy, that would be a good idea.... removing those references. I just noticed myself that my McAfee SiteAdvisor has this listed in red, and that's not happened before.</p> <p>After that listing as shown above, it does also have:</p> <p>Linked to green sites</p> <p>When we visited this site, we found that most of its links are to sites which are safe or have only minor safety/annoyance issues. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2991#post-23842 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:16:30 +0000 BuBBy 23842@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Also I've just had a look at these files - none of the files actually reside on Giveawayoftheday.com file servers - It appears an external third party has submitted these files to the freeware library - and linked to them offsite.</p> <p>All of the infected files are hosted on "http://bestnzb.com"</p> <p>At any rate, I have passed this info onto the GOTD Team - to remove any references to the bestnzb.com site (hopefully any other files that might be hosted there also). </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2991#post-23841 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:49:38 +0000 BuBBy 23841@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Well WOT (Web of Trust) <a href="http://www.mywot.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.mywot.com</a> reports that visitors to this site have giving a Green/Excellent rating to this site - in the areas of Trustworthiness, Vendor Reliability, Privacy and Child Safety.</p> <p>If a single file contains a virus or a trojan - I don't want to blacklist the entire site - and if I just so happen to download an infected file, well that's why I run NOD32 AntiVirus, Spybot, Spyware Blaster, and a-squared. </p> <p>Install WOT as well - if you happen to be getting bullied by SiteAdvisor. You can run both at the same time - then you can decide what type of "advice" you want to listen to. </p> <p>The WOT Blog.<br /> <a href="http://www.mywot.com/en/blog" rel="nofollow">http://www.mywot.com/en/blog</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2991#post-23840 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:43:29 +0000 christory 23840@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I wouldn't knock McAfee in this case as they are correct in what they report, don't shoot the messenger, Maybe it would be helpful if the links that McAfee found were removed from the freeware library as they ARE TROJANS, the details of what McAfee found are as follows:</p> <p>"http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/freeware/dir/49375/Download-Download-PSP-Games.htm"</p> <p>"downloadpspgames.exe FOUND: BackDoor-AWQ trojan"</p> <p>"http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/freeware/dir/49308/Download-Free-Internet-Arcade-Games.htm"</p> <p>"freeinternetarcadegames.exe FOUND: BackDoor-AWQ trojan"</p> <p>"http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/freeware/dir/49236/Download-Free-PSP-Movies.htm"</p> <p>"freepspmovies.exe FOUND: BackDoor-AWQ trojan"</p> <p>"http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/freeware/dir/49282/Download-Play-Arcade-Games-Online.htm"</p> <p>"playarcadegamesonline.exe FOUND: BackDoor-AWQ trojan" </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2991#post-23838 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:24:26 +0000 Lee 23838@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Maybe McAfee should learn how to code software so it works correctly.</p> <p>I am sure McAfee are jealous as we get more visitors than they do. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2991#post-23836 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:41:46 +0000 jinkazama 23836@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>apparently McAfee SiteAdvisor has tagged GOTD's website as red. Maybe the GOTD's staff could tell SiteAdvisor about the error? </p>