Today I am here to share my treasure with my readers regarding security of your computer.
Whenever you visit a website, you don’t know whether the website is safe or it is infected with a virus or malicious code. By using the tools in this post, you will be able to judge a website whether it is safe or not. Here, on TricksJunction.com, I have always stressed on security issues and appealed to my readers to be secure. Today’s post is another stepping stone towards my GOAL, “SECURE WEB”
Earlier I have written articles on security such as Trick to Block a Website, Trick to trace Mobile Numbers, 10 tips to avoid getting Ad-ware, Blocking Unwanted Emails, Tracking Stolen Mobile Phone etc. to enhance your security.
Here are the 7 most trusted tools to check whether a website is safe or not.
WOT is a great place to test the reputation of your favorite website. WOT gives real-time ratings for every website based on the feedback that it gets from millions of trustworthy users across the globe and trusted sources, such as phishing and malware blacklists. Each domain name is evaluated based on this data and ratings are applied to them accordingly.
The reputation of each website is shown in terms of 4 components where green means excellent, yellow warns users to be cautious and red indicates potential danger.
Trustworthiness signifies the overall safety of the website. A poor rating may indicate that the site is associated with threats like Internet scams, phishing, identity theft risks and malware. For more information on hacking, you may refer my other post on Steps to take when account is hacked.
Vendor reliability tells you whether a given site is safe for carrying out buy and sell transactions with it. An excellent rating indicates superior customer satisfaction while a poor rating indicates possible scam or bad shopping experience.
Privacy indicates about “to what extent the site respects the privacy of it’s users and protects their personal identity and data”.
Child Safety indicates whether the content of a given site is appropriate for children. Site contents like sexual material, nudity and vulgarity will have a poor Child Safety rating.
In most cases, the WOT ratings are found to be highly accurate. To check the reputation of any given website, just visit www.mywot.com type-in the address of your favorite website and click on “Check now”. This tool alone can tell you a lot about the reputation and safety level of a website. However, in addition to this, I am giving you another 6 handy tools to identify safe websites on the Web.
2. McCafee SiteAdvisor:
McCafee SiteAdvisor is a free tool that is available as a browser add-on. It adds safety ratings to your browser and search engine results. You can download it from www.siteadvisor.com. You can also use it without downloading it by just entering the URL of the website and checking whether it is safe or not.
3. StopBadware:
Using this tool, you can check whether a given site is said to have involved in malware activity in the past. To check this, go to http://www.stopbadware.org/home/reportsearch and enter the URL or domain name of a website and click on “Search Clearinghouse ”. If the search does not return any result, that means the site was never involved in any of the malware activity in the past.
4. Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic
Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic is easy for you to check if a site is in Google’s suspicious list with malware. Just paste below link in your browser address bar:http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=tricksjunction.com
And then replace “tricksjunction.com” with any other domain you want to look up.
Go to Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic
5. Unmasked Parasites
Unmask Parasites is based upon Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic, and will show you if a webpage is clean or not, the result report will show you all the links on the site.Unmask Parasites is workable for shortened URLs, which will be expanded and scanned automatically.
Go to Unmask Parasites
6. AVG Link Scanner
AVG leads the way in protecting you from ever-increasing online threats.
- Checks each web page in real time before it opens on your computer
- Automatically updates whenever a new threat is discovered
- It’s quick and easy to install, won’t get in your way, and it’s FREE!
You can download AVG LinkScanner here : AVG Link Scanner
7. NORTON SAFEWEB
Again, Norton SafeWeb is a smart tool to check malicious, dangerous and defective links
You can Download Norton Safeweb here : Norton SafeWeb
I Hope you like this article.
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