hpguru
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Re: Site Advisor: Helping To Decide Good\Bad Sites.
This is a good idea but it needs work. A lot of work. I just visited a site reported to me today which I confirmed is using an IE vulnerability to install malware. SiteAdvisor's advice - "We tested this site and didn't find any significant problems to report." Too damn bad for the poor fool who failed to install the most recent cumulative update for IE. 
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antiserious
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| said by hpguru  :This is a good idea but it needs work. A lot of work.
... I agree, and I just signed up to help out ... I think it's potentially a great idea that's going to need a lot of input to refine ... if they're up to the task it could be extremely useful ...
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1 edit | Re: Site Advisor: Helping To Decide Good\Bad Sites
said by antiserious :I think it's potentially a great idea that's going to need a lot of input to refine ... if they're up to the task it could be extremely useful ... Agreed... Provided they can 'bulletproof' themselves from the inevitable legal challenge(s) from the Mal/Scum/Adware creators & sites that spread the garbage who will cry foul at being labeled in such a disparaging manner....
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chris_dixon
join:2005-12-19
Boston, MA
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Hi there,
This is Chris Dixon from SiteAdvisor. Thanks for all of your comments.
Actually, we really should have made this clearer but our data does not yet include results from exploit detection. To date, it only includes results from programs you have to click to download (127,000 of those so far...). We are testing our exploit detection in our labs now and expect to include the results in January. Sorry we didn't explain this earlier. (Based on your comment, we added an explanation of this on our feedback page).
So basically right now we believe we have very few false positives but do have some false negatives, especially when it comes to exploits. It will indeed take some time to get it perfect but we are definitely in this for the long haul and appreciate all your feedback. |
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