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Browser Tools Aim to Warn Surfers of Spyware, Spam
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "New Web tools aim to protect surfers by flagging sites that are associated with viruses, spam or other scourges, but they sometimes disagree over whether a site is safe. From the article: 'Scandoo's service sometimes misses the mark in its efforts to flag adult content. On a recent day, it gave a green rating to the web site for Maxim Magazine's U.K. division, even though it contains nudity. It gave a red rating to the magazine's U.S. site, which contains no nudity. After an inquiry from the Online Journal, [executive Dan] Nadir said Scandoo decided to change the rating, reclassifying the U.K. site as red by default. "It was clear that it was misclassified, so we classified it correctly," Mr. Nadir said. A spokesman for Maxim Online said the discrepancy showed Scandoo's technology is "clearly broken."'"
Google Safe Browsing is a Firefox extension freely provided by google which warns of some dodgy sites.
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Site Advisor is an awesome firefox plugin that not only displays whether the site you are at is currently "safe", it also puts a little green check, yello exclamation point, or red x next to popular search engine's results. If you want to see why a site got a certain rating, you can click the check/mark/x or if you're at the site, the colored bar in the bottom of your browser, to see what McAffee found out when they scanned and indexed the site.
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Regrettably there is no page three in the US, at least not the kind of page three your used to. You might see something about Bush but not a twat, well let me rephrase that your won't see any nudity. Like he said, Nudity = Fire and Brimstone in the US, unless its covered in a non-transparent black plasic bag and put in a section reserved for "Adults" then you don't see it or have public access to it.
http://www.monzy.org/unsafesearch/