McAfee MTP08EMB3RUA Product Guide - Page 114

6 Using Browser Protection and Web Filtering Safety reports provide details Item Explanation Email Results Overall rating for a website's email practices. We rate sites based on both how much email we receive after entering an address on the site as well as how spammy the email we receive looks. If either of these measures is higher than what we consider acceptable, we'll give the site a yellow warning. If both measures are high, or one of them looks particularly egregious, we'll give the site a red warning. Each email link opens a detailed email analysis page. Downloads Overall rating about the impact a site's downloadable software had on our testing computer. Red flags are given to sites that have virus-infected downloads or that add unrelated software which many people would consider adware or spyware. The rating also takes note of the network servers a program contacts during its operation, as well as any modifications to browser settings or a computer's registry files. Each download link opens a detailed download analysis page. Online Affiliations Indication of how aggressively the site tries to get you to go to other sites that we've flagged as red. It is a very common practice on the Internet for suspicious sites to have many close associates with other suspicious sites. The primary purpose of these "feeder" sites is to get you to visit the suspicious site. A site can receive a red warning if, for example, it links too aggressively to other red sites. In effect, a site can become "red by association" due to the nature of its relationship to red flagged domains. Annoyances Common web practices that users find annoying, such as excessive popups, requests to change a user's home page or requests to add a site to the browser's favorites list. We also list 3rd party cookies (sometimes known as "tracking cookies") in this section. If a website has a lot of pop-ups and in particular, if it engages in practices such as popping up more windows when you try to close them, we will give that website a red flag. Exploits Rare but extremely dangerous security threats caused by a website "exploiting" a browser's security vulnerability. The exploit can cause the user's computer to receive programming code which can cause adware infections, keystroke spying, and other malicious actions which can leave a computer essentially unusable. Reviewer and Reviewers and site owners can provide additional information and commentary to Site Owner supplement SiteAdvisor's automated test results. Comments Results Summary of the comments of SiteAdvisor's entire reviewer community. Reviewers can rate sites for downloads, email practices, shopping experiences and more. This input is particularly important in helping the SiteAdvisor community guide each other concerning e-commerce websites. Anonymous input alone is not enough to change a site's overall rating, but sufficient votes from registered users can affect a site's rating. Website owner comments Allows owners of analyzed websites to address our ratings. Owners are free to comment, disagree or clarify. These comments are posted unedited after we verify the authenticity of the person leaving the comment. We manually review all owner comments and if an error was made, we will try our best to promptly correct it. We don't allow sites to pay to be rated or to change or improve their ratings. Reviewer comments What our volunteer reviewers have to say about this website. These comments are posted unedited. 114 McAfee Total Protection Service 5.1.5 Product Guide