5% of All Web Traffic Unsafe

OnFour writes "The MIT-backed startup behind SiteAdvisor has slapped a red "X" warning label on approximately 5 percent of all Web traffic and warned that there are roughly one billion monthly visits to Web pages that aren't safe for surfing. About 2 percent of all Web traffic was given the "yellow" caution rating." A more general SiteAdvisor blog entry overview was covered earlier on Slashdot.

Comments

site blocking predicted

[Russ Nelson]

Many years ago on the com-priv mailing list, I posted a message "announcing" the creation of a company which would sit on your network, watching the sites that your users visited. When a "bad" site was visited, it would forge a TCP RST to close down the connection. Various categories of badness were proposed, with varying fees. I thought "This is an idea too stupid for words, so I'll put it into words so everyone can see how stupid it is." Well, I had several parties contact me for availability and pricing, because they WANTED to censor their users' browsing. I was so naive.
-russ

Way out of date

[harlows_monkeys]

They are using PestPatrol's database, from way before CA bought PestPatrol. It's woefully inaccurate and out of date. SiteAdvisor is an interesting idea, but worthless in its current form.

Here is what I use

[hairyfeet]

This is great for those folks that refuse to give up Internet Exploiter(TM)(Like my Mom,Unfortunatly) Or click yes to everything--http://www.webattack.com/get/sandboxie .html Basically I just install all their browsers into the sandbox then when they bring it back to be cleaned I can just delete the sandbox folder after backing up their bookmarks.It really does help with the ActiveX/Toolbar style crap that so many people fall for.