Yahoo Inc. is joining McAfee Inc. in an effort to offer a feature that would alert users of potentially dangerous Web sites alongside their search results. This alert would be illustrated with a red exclamation point and a warning message located near the link that has been deemed dangerous.
McAfee has singled out specific sites, particularly those sites that attempt “drive-by downloads,” or trying to automatically install malicious code on visitors’ computers by exploiting coding flaws in their Web browsers. Yahoo users won’t even see links from these types of sites.
This is all in an effort by yahoo to enhance safety features, and assist in making the consumer more secure in their websurfing.
“When a user gets a set of search results, there’s really no indication of who’s a good guy and who’s a bad guy,” said Tim Dowling, vice president of McAfee’s Web Security Group. “You’re really leaping off a platform of faith that you’re clicking on a site that’s safe and not one that’s bad. And the bad guys really try hard to look good.”
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