Giveaway of the Day Forums

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   BuBBy
   Teh adnim

   Lately there are more and more site owners getting rather angry at Site Advisor. It is explained well on http://siteadvisorclassaction.com/ but you can just google "SiteAdvisor complaints" to see there is a common theme.

   Even more concerning is that lately there are a number of claims that site owners are being told they can buy their way out of a poor rating - and it seems SiteAdvisor is unfairly rating sites bad that are rated good everywhere else - perhaps to "encourage" the site owners to purchase the expensive McAfee "certification".

   If you are running SiteAdvisor be aware that the credibility of any ratings are seriously suspect - and poor ratings may be seriously out of date - and SiteAdvisor will not correct their error or rescan the site until after the site purchases an expensive "site certification". (many people would see this as nothing less than extortion).

   http://bitsum.blogspot.com/
   http://siteadvisorclassaction.blogspot.com/2008/06/mcafee-site-advisor-run-amuck.html
   http://www.snapfiles.com/siteadvisor.html
   http://muquit.com/

   http://windowssecrets.com/2009/02/19/01-McAfee-reveals-SiteAdvisors-retesting-policy
   http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/lofiversion/index.php/t21610.html
   http://info.mapzone.net/2006/mcaffee-siteadvisor-slams-coffeecup-software.html
   http://www.404techsupport.com/2010/03/18/whats-the-harm-in-mcafee-siteadvisor/

   Posted 13 years ago #
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   Buzz
   Member

   Thanks for the info.

   Posted 13 years ago #
3. 

   hereshopin
   Member

   Sounds exactly like how the Better Business Bureau runs things. :)

   Posted 13 years ago #
4. 

   Robert
   StrayCat

   It looks they have the power to make or break any good company possibly forcing them to pay big $$$ or get ruined.
   There's only one way to stop a questionable business from happening... companies should speak up for themselves ,so users can make up their mind and maybe stop using Site Advisor all together...unless Intel eventually puts an end to claimed aggressive and questionable marketing sales techniques and tries to regain confidence.
   The web has an equal if not bigger power to fight back.

   Posted 13 years ago #
5. 

   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   I stopped trusting site Advisor after they took nearly a year to remove the giveawayoftheday off their red list. Someone had posted a file in the freeware section that transpires contained some serious malware. That was removed as soon as the giveaway team found out about it, yet site Advisor continued to give the site a red. I contacted then on a couple of occassions to ask what was going on. I uninstalled SA a couple of months after the alert and have not used it since, much preferring The Web of Trust and/or my own judgment. :)

   Posted 13 years ago #
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   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   http://windowssecrets.com/2009/02/19/01-McAfee-reveals-SiteAdvisors-retesting-policy

   February 19, 2009 its been come for a long time allso SiteAdvisors not work with Firefox from ver 2 or 3 tell by email McAfee & said we don't know & only help for Pad for services in the Forums full of Firefox say can not post a Site Review,

   WOT is not without mistakes but better than McAfee or McAtheft

   Posted 13 years ago #
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   GMMan, Hexadecimal Blacksmith
   Blocked

   I don't know. Are those website rating programs any trustful now? I still have SiteAdvisor (though it's not being too useful right now, since I don't have home internet), and it seems to flag the obviously bad sites (which I can do by eye anyway). But if the developing companies start to mess with the ratings to get money, what would people think of them?

   (BTW, I quit using McAfee. 2006's HTML and VBScript based security software is too weird for me. My McAfee AV 2006 is only good now as something I can rip apart and see how it works.)

   Posted 13 years ago #

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