SiteAdvisor Finds Billions of Unsafe Web Visits
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An Internet security startup with roots at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has slapped a red “X” warning label on approximately 5 percent of all Web traffic and warned that there are one billion monthly visits to Web pages that aren’t safe for surfing.
With an ambitious mission to use automated crawlers to test every Web site on the Internet, SiteAdvisor officially rolled out a free trial version of a browser plug-in that places a “safe,” “caution” or “warning” label whenever a user visits a Web site.
The idea is to use the color-coded (red, yellow or green) system to mark every Web site and to help Web surfers determine if a site’s content includes spyware, spam, viruses, browser-based exploits or online scams.
