SiteHound Toolbar
http://www.firetrust.com/firetrustsitehound.html
Firetrust released a new program called SiteHound Toolbar. Below are some quick points about how SiteHound works.
SiteHound is a free add-on to Internet Explorer.
(Users of Firefox - a version for you is coming soon.)
SiteHound's comprehensive database gathers the knowledge from other users and respected experts from the online security community to tell you which sites are real and which are bogus.
SiteHound will alert you when you enter a site which is known to contain:
- Fraudulent claims or scams
- Offensive material
- Security vulnerabilities
- Spyware or Adware
- Spam related material or other content deemed to be unsafe
- Adult
- Spyware
- Spam Advertising
- Phishing
- Possible scam or fraud
- Misleading or False Advertising
- Pharming
- Rogue or Suspect Product
- Adware
- Malware or Virus
- Over 4,000 fake bank and credit sites
- Tens of thousands of pornographic and adult sites
- The never ending fake phishing sites
- Malicious sites, which can infect you with spyware and adware if you visit them
- Sites to download software which may infect your computer with spyware and adware