http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Giveaway of the Day Forums Topic: Did you anyone notice that Mcafee has now en Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:27:00 +0000 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3035#post-25137 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:51:40 +0000 BuBBy 25137@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hopefully people who read this also look at the fine print going into the details of exactly what is so bad about this site....</p> <p>(http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/giveawayoftheday.com<br /> Taking one of the four "bad links" as an example<br /> (http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/giveawayoftheday.com/downloads/10025243/</p> <p>You get a nice little report - in a nutshell...</p> <p>#--- SiteAdvisor Report for Giveawayoftheday.com -----------------#<br /> <strong>How does it modify my system?</strong></p> <p><em>We did not test</em> what changes downloadpspgames.exe made to our system.<br /> <em>We did not test</em> what changes downloadpspgames.exe made to the system registry.<br /> <em>We did not test</em> what changes downloadpspgames.exe made to the hard drive.</p> <p># The title could not be determined.<br /> # URL of the download publisher: (http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/freeware/dir/49375/Download-Download-PSP-Games.htm<br /> <em>Note: The link doesn't actually exist</em></p> <p># SiteAdvisor last tested this download: <strong>January 2008</strong><br /> # SiteAdvisor last verified this link: <strong>November 2007</strong></p> <p>#---------------------------------------------------------------#</p> <p><a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2251?replies=4#post-14090">Some differences between WOT (Web of Trust) and SiteAdvisor</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2354?replies=17#post-15089">WOT, Web of Trust, gets it information from two sources</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3035#post-25126 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:48:59 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 25126@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for the explanation BuBBY. Someone posted a warning about the giveaway project over on a site that I admin for Crysis and Battlefield 2. I did try to explain that it had been sorted, but not having any proof wouldn't have helped. I've now posted a link to this post, which i hoipe will allay any fears that those who vivit the site have.</p> <p>I hope all is well with you guys. It's been a very busy few weeks for me (apart from being ill as well) so I've not been around much. Hopefully I'll be back soon. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3035#post-25102 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:30:58 +0000 Esa 25102@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Buckleysmom, WOT works on Firefox and IE but not on Maxthon. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3035#post-25083 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:53:47 +0000 Buckleysmom 25083@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Bubby....would you happen to know offhand if WOT works with Maxthon's browser? </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3035#post-25072 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:01:34 +0000 BuBBy 25072@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>hahaha - when I said "you can run WOT alongside SiteAdvisor", I didn't actually mean the icons would literally be next to each other.</p> <p>OK rephrase - "you can run WOT <em>at the same time</em> as SiteAdvisor".</p> <p>How's that? :P</p> <p>Click on the big 'O' and down the bottom should be a "Guide" you can look at, which explains what everything means - "Ratings, Warnings, Searching, Pop-ups, Advanced" - give you more options so you can make WOT work the way you want it to. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3035#post-25070 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:37:21 +0000 copmom 25070@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>BuBBy.. I just installed WOT .. thanks for the link! First I couldn't see anything on a rating, then saw a big blue O on top of my page. Thought it would show up beside my red McAfee SiteAdvisor bar! </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3035#post-25061 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:56:35 +0000 BuBBy 25061@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>The files and links were fixed when the problem was first mentioned. (The files were on a different site - and the links were submitted into the freeware library).</p> <p>So the links have been removed - in theory (according to McAfee's rules) GOTD is now "safer". Maybe one day soon McAfee will update their own records - but they have a history of updating at glacial speed.</p> <p>A much better option is <a href="http://www.mywot.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.mywot.com</a> which has wider coverage than McAfee - better alerting/reporting options - and it won't nag you to upgrade to a "pay-version" (because there isn't one).</p> <p>You can run WOT alongside SiteAdvisor in case you are having any final last minute pangs of loyalty towards McAfee. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3035#post-24952 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:46:17 +0000 sukibabe 24952@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Yes, I have McAfee! Yes, this has been posted before!</p> <p>Yes, it has NOW chosen to give this site a red flag!</p> <p>Ignore it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They go way tooooo Far with that!!!!!!!!!</p> <p>Suki </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3035#post-24948 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:40:21 +0000 Michelle 24948@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>given this site a red? I don't know how long it has been red, because I don't have siteadvisor installed on ie and I have been using that browser a lot lately. Sorry if I put this in the wrong forum. I was just curious to knew that if anyone knew when Mcafee gave the site a red. </p>