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WOT Celebrity Check
Wed 25 Aug 2010 07:47:14 AM UTC — annaleenaSoftware security firm McAfee recently published their fourth ”Most Dangerous Celebrity in Cyberspace” list. This year the dubious top honor went to actress Cameron Diaz. To put the topic into human perspective we checked what the WOT reputation rating community has to say.
We did some Google searching, typed in the name “Cameron Diaz” and found out that only one of the first hundred search results was rated poorly. We typed in “screensaver” and noted that almost half of the results were yellow or red. The same applied more or less to Julia, Jessica, Gisele, Brad, Adriana, Jennifer, Nicole, Tom, Heidi, Penelope and Anna from the McAfee list, all of whom we here at WOT HQ find really beautiful and talented at their work.
Searching for “Cameron Diaz screensavers” does result in some poorly rated search results but which should we blame:
Cameron or the screensavers?
When you search, browse or shop online, remember that cybercriminals are very clever at determining what people are looking for and designing their scam, malware or virus to meet that need. “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” does not totally apply to cyberspace as you may actually find some pretty cool stuff for free here, such as screensavers, wallpapers and other downloads. However, be cautious - You don´t always have to learn the hard way. WOT users benefit from others’ knowledge and mistakes.
Use WOT for Safe Searching
Our community of 13 million users have rated 30 million sites for trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy and child safety, plus we receive additional information from trusted blacklists and lists of dangerous URLs. So when you are searching for your favorite celebrity, “dangerous” or not, check the WOT reputation first.
WOT works with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Safari. Downloaded the free WOT add-on at http://www.mywot.com
See McAfee’s ”Most Dangerous Celebrity in Cyberspace” list.
Celebrity Check
I'll have to agree, no one has to learn the hard way , we only chose to find out for our selfs how bad, or "What are they talking about", or maybe even "I have been to this site before, it's OK, I think that's why it's very important that everyone thats rates a site or any site for that matter, that the site is rated on a bad experience of any kind, i only say this because i have gone to a web site that had been given bad ratings. if i had not ever been on that web site before, i might not had even gave it a try, but i did and everything turned out alright, No virus's or malware, Now there have been web sites that i have on that made me sorry i stopped and opened it up,the site said "NO CREDIT CARD NEEDED, NO BULL", They wanted my email address, and name and at the very end they wanted a credit card, too late for me they already had my information, and used it. i still get spam from people and companies i have never heard of.And this site had no warning. So like i was saying, if the sites that had bad ratings also had a short reason why it was given a bad rating, more people would not have to learn the hard way, and in return, more people just might want to be part of "WOT" and help rate web sites, Then just maybe!