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Happy Safer Internet Day! Today marks the seventh edition of the event. Celebrations are taking place in more than 60 countries on all 5 continents across the world, from Canada to South Korea, and Russia to Kenya and including all 27 countries of the European Union.

" Online safety concerns all of us. Young people across Europe spend a good part of their leisure time, playing, interacting and learning on the web. The overall traffic on social networking sites has grown enormously over the last three years," said Viviane Reding, patron of Safer Internet Day for the sixth consecutive year, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media. "Therefore, it is even more our responsibility as Europeans to make the online world a safe and secure environment that everyone can enjoy."

Safer Internet Day 2010 celebrates the theme "Think B4 U Post". Once an image is posted online, it’s hard, if not impossible, to take it back. Anyone can see it. The goal is not to prevent young people from using these sites, but to make them aware of the risks of sharing personal information online and to encourage them to control their online identity by thinking carefully about the consequences.

Visit www.saferinternet.org and look up the website of your national awareness center to get tips on how to protect your privacy online. To learn more about Safer Internet Day meetings in your region or at the international level this year, stay posted at: www.saferinternetday.org and check out the SID fair www.sidfair.org.

About Safer Internet Day

Safer Internet Day is part of a global drive by awareness-raising partners to promote a safer Internet for all users, especially young people. It is organised by INSAFE in the framework of the European Commission’s Safer Internet Programme.

For the first time, About.com's Computing Channel is having a Reader's Choice Awards which honors the best browsers and browser-related software.  During January, thousands of nominations were submitted by readers in a wide variety of categories including Best Privacy/Security add-on. WOT safe browsing tool has qualified as a finalist!

Throughout the month of February, About.com readers will vote for a winner in each category. The categories are: Best Browser Theme, Best Independent Browser, Best Major Desktop Browser, Best Mobile Browser, Best Overall Add-On (Non-Security), Best Privacy/Security Add-On and Best User Script. Winners will be announced March 1.

Please cast your ballot for WOT in the Best Privacy/Security Add-On category and help us to win. As of today, we are trailing NoScript by a mile, so we need your vote. Thanks everybody!

Vote in About.com's Reader's Choice Award

Saludos desde España!

Soy Anna-Leena, la nueva “persona de enlace” por la communidad hispanohablante! Soy de Finlandia pero de momento vivo en España. Tengo título en márketing y he realizado mis estudios parcialmente en Mexico. Tengo muchas ganas de trabajar por una cosa tan importante como la seguridad en Internet! Además, este trabajo me interesa mucho como me encanta la idioma castellana (todavía no hablo perfectamente pero espero que me comprendáis) y quiero conocer más los países hispanohablantes. He usado WOT por un rato y de hecho, ahora a usar Internet sin los circulos pequeños de color rojo, amarillo o verde guiándome es muy dificil... Espero que juntos podamos expandir la comunidad y aumentar el número de las cargas no solamente en el mundo hispanohablante pero en todo el mundo. Mucho gusto conocer a vosotros!

Hi all! I am Anna-Leena, the new Community Liaison Officer of WOT for the Spanish-speaking world. I´m a Finn living in Spain at the moment and in the past I have been living in Mexico. My educational background is in marketing which also brought me to WOT. As we all, I get extremely annoyed by all the scum you may get from Internet so therefore I am more than happy to work for something that saves me and others from the trouble: Web of Trust! Personally I find WOT really helpful in my use of Internet. In fact, having been using WOT for a while now, using Internet without the little red, yellow and green circles guiding me is quite challenging… So hopefully together we can make WOT even bigger than it already is all around the world! Nice to meet you all!

Every website is a target for malware attacks. If you follow the news you will know that everything from mom n' pop sites, educational institutions, government sites, Fortune 500 companies, even famous search engines fall victim to drive-by downloads, social engineering attacks and a myriad of badware.

The good news is that you can prevent, detect and recover from a malware attack on your site. Two friends of WOT are a good place to start.

StopTheHacker offers services that help you prevent, detect and recover from a website intrusion. Their specialty is detecting code injections; a new tactic cybercriminals use to introduce malicious code in compromised websites.

StopTheHacker is a collaboration fostered through the Bourns College of Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. They are a recipient of the National Science Foundation award for technological novelty and impact.

Visit StopTheHacker

StopBadware began as an anti-malware project with The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. They just recently became a standalone non-profit organization.

Website owners can search for reports on their site using the Badware Website Clearinghouse. And with the help of the BadwareBusters community, you can get advice on cleaning and securing your site.

Visit StopBadware

Search for a website on the Badware Website Clearinghouse

Have a question? Ask the BadwareBusters.org online community

Both of these fine organizations are friends and supporters of WOT.

Our developers work hard to stay ahead of browser updates so that you will never have to surf without WOT. But when was the last time you updated your browser?

Old and outdated browsers have a greater risk for Internet threats and don't follow new web development standards. Outdated browsers such as Internet Explorer 6 (released in 2001) don't follow current web standards which affects the quality of websites rendering; have security issues; are full of bugs; and are incompatible with much of the new technology on the Internet.

Find your browser version

1. Open your browser
2. Click on Help and then scroll down to About (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, etc.)
3. The window that opens will show you which browser version you are using. If your version is older, it’s time to make a change.

Browser choices that support add-ons like WOT:

Firefox is a longtime favorite for fans of add-ons and themes. Download Firefox 3.6

Google's new Chrome browser runs webpages and extensions with lightning speed. Download Google Chrome 4

This version of Internet Explorer is faster and safer than its predecessors. Download Internet Explorer 8

What's your favorite browser?