These people are suing McAfee to have their rating changed to 'safe'

By implication, they are saying that reviewers are not entitled to express honestly held opinions.

In my own experience and as a personal opinion, any company that goes to court to suppress complaints, rather than address those complaints, ends up going out of business. "

I've just read an article about them trying to fine McAfee for a bad rating on SiteAdvisor; they're known to have spread spy or malware. "

It's a search engine folks! "

We would like to address the concerns regarding 7search suing McAffee. Back in 2007, 7search was given a red rating incorrectly by McAfee based on a downloadable program 7search previously used that has not been active since 2001. This program was downloaded by option only and was not spyware or malware. It did anonymously track web sites visited for tracking site popularity only. Perception overwhelmed the actuality due to other companies at the time using deceptive software; we were not one of them. While we did contact McAffe’s review board to have them further investigate our company in order to bring our rating back to the green rating deserved, this contact was never brought into a court of law. As of January 2008, 7search and its sister companies all have the correct “positive” rating. "

7Search.com does not distribute spyware or adware, nor does it engage in spamming or delivery of malicious content. In fact, professional reviews by McAfee and Symantec both rank 7Search.com favorably.
Raders should remember that the WOT ratings are based on anonymous user comments. We would like every opportunity to address your concerns. If you have any questions about 7Search.com and the erroneous ratings on this site, please contact us! 800-577-1165 or email clientsupport@7search.com. "

"People who own 7Search.com have ties to browseraccelerator.com, a site that pushes a browser toolbar that "helps users improve their online experience dramatically by displaying within a browser everything an informed consumer needs to know about the web site being visited.

Eric Howes, director of malware research at security provider Sunbelt Software, installed the software on a virtual machine and quickly noticed the software was offering search results that mixed sponsored links from unsponsored links.

"What they're trying to do is sneak adversing past the user without the user recognizing the search results ... are sponsored, paid-for results," he said. He also said the software by no means represented a high risk because it didn't appear to track individual users or forcibly install itself. Still, he said: "We would probably target it because of the overwhelming presence of advertising."

Indeed, two Sunbelt products, Viper and CounterSpy, block the installation of the program.

7Search.com's owner also appears to have ties to validatedsearch.com, a site that competes with McAfee's SiteAdvisor by providing third-party certification to end users that a given website is trustworthy. The administrative contact for both sites, as well as browseraccelerator.com is listed as one Patrick Devereaux in Chicago, according to Whois search results..."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/28/7search_sues_mcafee/ "

This site attempts to auto download malware. If you "purchase" their product expect to have your credit card maxed out in under 1 hour. "

Drive by downloads/malicious content "

Malicious site as listed on http://www.freepcsecurity.co.uk/ "