Do you Trust the Web? Do you think Web surfing will infect your computer with viruses & spyware cookies? Now surf the Internet Web, with Confidence, with Web Of Trust
"WOT".
In the Year 2006 some people from
Helsinki, launched a software for the Internet Secirity, Known as
"WOT" ( Web of Trust).
http://www.againstintuition.com.
Helsinki is the capital of
Finland. Finland or
Republic of Finland is the 8th largest Europian country with 5.3 million population. The capital of Finland is Helsinki. Finland is sorrounded by Sweden, Russia, Denmark. see the beautiful picture of Helsinki...
"WOT" or web of trust, is a
"FREE" Internet Security
"add on" or
"Plugin" for your webbrowser like Internet Explorer or Firefox , that warns you about Risky websites. "WOT" warns you before you click to open risky sites. It's very easy to install & is
"FREE". When you search for a website in the Google search or any Search bar, the "WOT" gives you the Security status of that website. If You have opened a website directly, then by clicking the "WOT" icon in your browser toolbar, you can see the security status of that website , you just opened.
DOWNLOAD "WOT" for INTERNET EXPLORER
See in below screen shot how "wot" has shown , when I serached for Kazaa.com. See it is showing
red sign for
www.kazaa.com (DON'T Click this link). Kazaa is known to run spywares & virus, tracking cookies to it's visitors. See the the details of Kazaa in wikipedia , is showing
Green circle, coz wiki is well known safe site.
By installing "wot" addon button to your webbrowser, you can decide yourself, which site to open or not. see the result when I directly opened the site kazaa. You can see the result of a site even after opening , by clicking on the "wot" Icon on the left hand side of your browser.
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Wot works on all
operating system of
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux.The
browsers in which wot works are
Internet explorer & Firefox.How to Download " WOT":
1.
Download for Internet Explorer from Here2.
Download for Firefox from here
After Installing the Software, run the downloaded file by double clicking,
(InternetConnection is necessary). After installation process, "wot" will take you to the home page for
setting process, where you can choose your settings,click Finish after selecting, the settings.
Restart your Browser, IE or Firefox. Now you will see the "wot" green circle on the Toolbar of your "browser". Search any site in Google search or Bing, the "wot will show it's reputation by showing the security colours.
"WOT" will also show the security details,of your directly opened website, when you click the "wot" Button of your browser,it will show the safefty of the page, you had opened.
Similar applications like wot is
Dr.web Antivirus Link checker, (see my older posts). Dr Web Antivirus link checker shows the safety of a link , provided in a webpage.
McAfeesite advisor also provides the site security status in same way.
So Friends!! Now Surf the web with confidence with web trust i.e.
"WOT" web of trust.
If you don't have
Firefox 3.5 you can download it from here
