Is whyfirefoxisblocked.com Safe?

Don't listen to all of the negative reviews of this site. The WOT community has a habit of marking sits poor in every category if they do not agree with the site's political views and opinions. The site is 100% safe and trustworthy, but it is a political opinion site that talks about keynote, controversial issues. If you don't like hearing both sides of a political argument, then this site is not for you.

Xird: "It isn't theft if I mute a television commercial and close my eyes. It isn't theft if I switch radio stations when ads come on". How silly. TV/radio doesn't PAY FOR YOU IN PARTICULAR seeing it. A website PAYS FOR EACH VISITOR's generated bandwidth, i.e. PAYS FOR YOU PERSONALLY. See?

Hypocrites. Block the firefox web browser because of an add-on that blocks ads and then say that ad blocking is a threat to the internet. And no, not seeing ads is not dishonest or even remotely close to anything that could ever possibly be considered stealing. It isn't theft if I mute a television commercial and close my eyes. It isn't theft if I switch radio stations when ads come on. If I ignore advertisements in the first place then blocking them changes nothing.

the site is safe but a bit annoying, if you see this site you are annoyed and therefore are likely to give it a bad rating out of spite. Also any site that is a redirection always gets a bad rating even if it's legitimate, e.g. partypoker and William hill and other gambling sites. This is the one of the major drawback to WOT in my opinion.

I don't know where DaemonFC found his information about spyware, but, from the Wikipedia article, it is clear why Danny Carlton allows advertisements on his site. Also: [*****/news/internet/browsers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201805865] http://www.informationweek.com However, while Google Safe Browsing gives whyfirefoxisblocked.com a good report, the network hosting the website is having problems with other websites which it hosts. [25 May 2010] Diagnostic page for whyfirefoxisblocked.com [http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=whyfirefoxisblocked.com] Diagnostic page for the network hosting whyfirefoxisblocked.com [http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=AS:21844] StopBadware also reports no issues with this site. [25 May 2010] However, website advertisements today are something of a curate's egg. ***** See also: [Sorry about wrapping some URLs in brackets; this is because some daft twit at WoT has decided that URLs longer than 72 bytes will be truncated! The brackets fool WoT's software, and, for the inconvenience of cutting and pasting, you get a full and working version of the relevant URL.] Fresh exploit served up with ads Now I’m not saying that Liberty is being served up by ad networks, but the stats pages for the exploit kits are certainly saying that. And if their stats are to be believed, it’s interesting how even visiting major websites can allow you to be drawn to an attack site. [http://thompson.blog.avg.com/2010/03/fresh-exploit-served-up-with-ads.html] Interesting attack profile One of our activities involves tracking both victims and attackers. Well, would-be victims, because we're detecting and therefore blocking the attempts. ***** Malware delivered by Yahoo, Fox, Google ads Malware that exploits holes in popular applications is being delivered by big ad delivery platforms including those run by Yahoo, Fox, and Google, according to Prague-based antivirus firm Avast. [*****/8301-27080_3-20000898-245.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1] http://news.cnet.com US-CERT uncovers JavaScript security vulnerability in Safari The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has found a security hole in Safari, with which a hacker could run arbitrary code at the privilege level of the current user account if the victim visits a malicious Web page. ***** Disposable Facebook apps installing adware This morning one of our researchers, Gadi Evron, noticed something odd on Facebook. [http://thompson.blog.avg.com/2010/05/disposable-facebook-apps-installing-adware.html] Whoops - Twitter got hacked again [http://thompson.blog.avg.com/2010/05/whoops-twitter-got-hacked-again.html] Treasury website hacked ***** ***** Volcanic ash is a lure? ***** Heads up - 0day ITW - Rihanna is a lure The problem is that when Sun released Java 6, update 10 in April 2008, they introduced a new feature (it's not a bug, it's a feature folks) called Java Web Start. In order to make it easier for developers to install software, they created a method to execute a program from a website. [http://thompson.blog.avg.com/2010/04/heads-up-0day-itw-rihanna-is-a-lure.html] Why Security Software? Understanding the threats [http://free-product.blog.avg.com/2010/05/why-security-software-understanding-the-threats.html] "Hacked websites, fake media players, [fake anti-virus software,] malicious Office documents and social engineering are all part of the Internet threat landscape today." Sunbelt Software, Inc. Malware Analysis, Virus Sandbox - CWSandbox an Automated Malware Analysis Tool [*****/Malware-Research-Analysis-Tools/Sunbelt-CWSandbox/] http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com [A tool for corporate IT departments, not Joe Public at home.] Other anti-virus software vendors exist. Most anti-virus applications perform at less than 100% effectiveness, some even less than 90%. How does yours perform? See: AV-Comparatives - Independent Tests of Anti-Virus Software Anti-Virus Comparative February 2010 [*****/images/stories/test/ondret/avc_report25.pdf] http://www.av-comparatives.org The upshot of this is that it is important to have an effective "zero day" application, aka "application firewall", or HIPS, behavioural, or heuristic, application, so nothing can install secretly between virus scans, or because your AV engine fails to flag up something, new, old, or one of the thousands of "wild list" samples which your AV engine cannot recognise. If you are using a good anti-virus application, and that detects some problem with one of the files on your computer, upload the file to Virus Total [Free online analysis of suspect files at http://www.virustotal.com] and see if any, or how many, AV engines do not flag the sample as being a problem! False positive? Maybe. Security you don't need to pay for Just because threats to your PC continue to mutate doesn't mean that you need to pay for peace of mind. April 29, 2010 12:17 PM PDT ***** Best Performing (Speed and Memory Usage) Antivirus and Internet Security for 2010 Antivirus software is the most important software you can have for your computer. It can be a very tough decision to choose the right antivirus program especially when there are so many of them and you can only have one on a computer. [*****/blog/archives/2010/02/03/best-performing-speed-and-memory-usage-antivirus-and-internet-security-for-2010/] http://www.raymond.cc [Test 6: Detection, is the one to look at? That tests any application firewall incorporated in the relevant "security suite". N. B.: PCTools ThreatFire is not listed, but PC Tools Internet Security 2010 is! PC Tools Community Forum > PC Tools Products > ThreatFire > Behavior Guard "PCTIS", Behavior Guard, and ThreatFire. Various postings providing a comparison between Behavior Guard and ThreatFire. *****/forum/showthread.php?s=b417d8d2bbd85606f1c857cbda87ced9&t=52423] http://www.pctools.com

You shouldn't give a site a red rating just because you don't like it. I see nothing wrong with this site in terms of it harming a computer or user. It links to other respected tech sites. Maybe someone doesn't like the name and the owners views? Thats no reason to have a red rating.