Site Advisor
September 30, 2008 at 3:52 pm Leave a comment
Web of Trust. The name sounds fairly inane for what it is, which is a good thing. It purports to be another Haute Secure; another place where users (and automated checkers) can add opinions about sites, particularly things like typosquatters (DO NOT CLICK ON THIS like http/ /wordpreess.com/ (it looks like it won’t activate as a link))–see the double “e” in wordpress?: I’ve done it and was saved by software). I am not sure about it, especially because of the lacking “https” rather than “http”. I have one recommendation and one “I had to install it to get my computer working right”: mine is doing fine with both at the moment.
Minor note, I have been saved once by Web Security Guard courtesy of Crawler. Directing me away from an unknown site is a good way to make me less suspicious, which I am by nature. (Then again: my grandfather, adopted father/uncle, brother/cousin, brother-in-law/cousin-in-law…and I…all had Top Secret clearances. May come with the jeans, genes, or territory. Being paranoid, I mean.)
–Glenn
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