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Today’s free download: WOT is a free Internet security add-on for your web browser. It will help keep you safer from online scams, identity theft, spyware, spam, viruses and unreliable shopping sites. WOT warns you before you interact with a risky Website. It’s easy and it’s free.
- So easy a child can use it
- Ratings for over 20 million websites
- Downloaded 3 million times
- The WOT browser add-on is light and updates automatically
- WOT rating icons appear beside search results in Google, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, and webmail – Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo!
- Settings can be customized to better protect your family
- WOT Security Scorecard shows rating details and user comments
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I am a Retired computer & network technician. I used to think the machines were pretty cool. Now I don’t.
They’re anything but.
I regularly posted how-to’s and tricks & tips and general computing advice here starting in 2007. (Use the Search tool to find answers. But be aware, many are rather dated.) Sometimes I answered (your) specific questions in an article if I believed the answer was generally helpful to “everyone”. All the writing you see was my own, typos and all. There always is/was an implied “IMHO” in what you see here.
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WOT is a terrific help when surfing and they encourage user input. WOT along with the free program, “LinkExtend” are unbeatable and can give a real sense of security. Link extend gives the results from 5 sites like Norton, WOT and Browser Defender. On one occasion I reason to know that a site rating given by WOT was erroneous. I contacted the site and WOT. The rating was changed. That is when I decided to try LinkExtend along with Wot. It was a good choice. I hope you will check it out for your readers.
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Skykisser,
Good to see you here again. Usually I also reco LinkScanner Lite and/or McAfee’s Site Advisor to go along with WOT. (See, one of WOT’s strengths is also a weakness: by allowing “user voting”, people with an agenda can, and do, skew a site’s rating. Hackers will pan security site and praise their own poisoned site [as well as create multiple ‘user names’ to vote multiple times] is just one example. WOT is a warning system, not a decision-maker-for-me-er.)
LinkExtend is an excellent recommendation for my Firefox-using readers. Their website is here. Thank you.
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Not using Firefox…
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TechPaul,
All I can say is, “This is an excellent illustration! A picture speaks a thousand words”.
WOT is on all of my PCs… Would not have it any other way.
Rick
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Rick,
There are many other clues there; such as the blank “To:” field, but I have found that most computer users aren’t trained to have the (paranoid) “eye” for those sorts of clues.. but do tend to notice ‘stop signs’!
Thanks for your support!
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