Yahoo search to alert users to bad Web sites

ushakumarik · moderator Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 54

Feature would help users distinguish between good and malicious links

Yahoo Inc. and McAfee Inc. are joining to offer alerts about potentially dangerous Web sites alongside search results generated at Yahoo.com.

With the new security feature — slated to take effect Tuesday — people who search the Internet using Yahoo will see a red exclamation point and a warning next to links McAfee has identified as serving dangerous downloads or using visitors' e-mail addresses to send out spam.

Dangerous downloads can include "adware," which shows unwanted advertisements; "spyware," which secretly tracks users' keystrokes and other actions; and other malicious programs that can give criminals control over users' computers.

siteadmin · Site Admin Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 304

This feature looks very similiar to Google's feature of adding warnings in search results saying this site can harm your computer.

You can read Google's take on this problem here

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/01/about-badware-warnings.html

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