Prensa

Helsinki, Finland November 16, 2009

The reputation rating service Web of Trust is the top Finnish company in the 2009 SIME Rising Stars of the North, and fifth overall in the Nordics. The 12-member jury selected the WOT browser add-on as top in Finland because it uses a high level of innovation and has created a unique product with a clear end-user focus. WOT and its new commercial product, the Community Trust Network, was judged to have great potential to become a commercial success and mean a lot to users and customers.

An independent professional jury handpicked 36 promising, young nominees from a field of 150 companies based in Scandinavia. WOT, from Helsinki, Finland, demonstrated competences within technology, strategy, and communication making it the top achiever of all companies nominated from Finland. The awards were given at a gala event in Stockholm on November 12. SIME is northern Europe’s largest conference about the Internet and digital opportunities. http://sime.nu/

Free browser add-on warns against online threats

Web of Trust is a community-based safe surfing tool that uses an intuitive traffic-light style rating system to help Internet users stay safe as they search, browse, and shop online. The WOT add-on provides safety ratings to search results when using Google, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, and other popular sites, helping people protect their computers and personal information. Website ratings are continuously updated by millions of members of the WOT community and from trusted sources, like Panda Security and PhishTank. The free Internet security add-on works with popular browsers and can be downloaded at http://www.mywot.com.

The Community Trust Network

The Community Trust Network is a program specially designed for online shop owners whose sites have superior reputations. CTN tools help e-commerce and other sites to publicize their trustworthiness and to collect ratings and feedback in a neutral way. The end result for website owners is that they attract new visitors, improve their reputation, and boost sales by increasing confidence and trust. CTN is WOT’s first commercial product. Site owners can have a 1-month free trial. http://www.mywot.com/ctn

Supporting Facts of WOT

• WOT has been downloaded 7 million times
• Reputation information for 25 million websites
• Available for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome
• WOT is open source software
• WOT receives additional information from trusted sources, such as Panda Security, PhishTank, TRUSTe and hpHosts

Resources

• WOT videos
• Screen prints, logos, and photos

Contact

Vesa Perälä, CEO
+358 40 586 0863
vesa (at) mywot.com
WOT Services Ltd. Italahdenkatu 27 A
00210 Helsinki, Finland
www.mywot.com

Helsinki, Finland (PRWEB) November 3, 2009 --

WOT Services Ltd, the company behind the reputation rating service Web of Trust, launched the Community Trust Network (CTN), a program that gives websites with superior reputations tools to publicize their trustworthiness and to collect ratings and feedback in a neutral way. The end result for website owners is that they attract new visitors, improve their reputation, and boost sales by increasing confidence and trust. 

Today's Internet surfers use online tools like WOT to share their experiences and express their opinions about companies. Candidates for CTN membership already have excellent or good reputations as rated by the millions of members of the WOT community. Businesses without their own mechanism to collect customer feedback use WOT's rating information to establish a fair, unbiased, easy-to-use system to collect and promote feedback and ratings that will attract new customers to their site.

"My business lives and dies by the trust of my customers, and I want to show potential customers that my website and my business can be trusted. The WOT community has rated my site highly in all categories, and with the Community Trust Network, I now have a way to communicate that to all my site's visitors," said Ed Coyne, owner of Angelo PC, in San Angelo, Texas.

The Community Trust Network includes:

• Trust seals & Rate us buttons
• A certificate with real-time WOT ratings and comments
• An easy-to-use feedback tool
• Reputation alerts
• CTN icon to help you stand out in search results

CTN's tools are flexible and easy to integrate into any website. Visitors can submit ratings for trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy, and child safety using the WOT reputation rating system, along with detailed comments. To make it open for all, site visitors do not have to be members of WOT to rate the site.

Membership prices begin at $19.90 per month for non-commercial sites. There is a free 30-day trial for new customers. Sign up at www.mywot.com/ctn

Free security add-on warns against online threats:

Web of Trust is a community-powered safe surfing tool that uses an intuitive traffic-light style rating system to help Internet users stay safe as they search, browse, and shop online. The WOT security add-on provides safety ratings to search results when using Google, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, and other popular sites, helping people protect their computers and personal information. Website ratings are continuously updated by millions of members of the WOT community and from trusted sources, like Panda Security and PhishTank. The free Internet security add-on works with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome. WOT can be downloaded at http://www.mywot.com.

Supporting Facts of WOT

• WOT has been downloaded over 7 million times
• Reputation information for 25 million websites
• Available for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome
• WOT is open source software
• WOT receives additional information from trusted sources, such as Panda Security, PhishTank, TRUSTe, and hpHosts

Resources

WOT videos

Screen prints, logos, and photos

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Contact

Deborah Salmi
WOT Services
+358.40.735.6640

Helsinki, Finland (PRWEB) July 30, 2009

Panda Security, The Cloud Security Company, and Against Intuition, the developer of the leading website rating service Web of Trust (WOT), today announced a partnership to deliver a safer Web search experience through their new co-branded version of WOT. The WOT browser add-on warns Internet users about risky websites, providing protection against online scams, identity theft, spyware, spam, and unreliable shopping sites. WOT’s protection is now extended with Panda’s up-to-the-minute information on malware distributors and dangerous domains.

The free co-branded WOT security add-on is available for Firefox and Internet Explorer users worldwide and can be downloaded from Panda’s website . Enhanced by Panda’s latest information on new malware strains and phishing threats, WOT safety ratings serve the community of 5 million members worldwide. By joining forces, both companies hope to attract new users and make searching, shopping, and browsing on the Internet a safer experience.

"As we did with Collective Intelligence, we trust in the power of the community to improve the safety of the user, that's why we believe WOT is the best tool to help get safe surfing through the Internet," said Panda Security's CEO Juan Santana.

"We are excited to have Panda, a respected security company as a partner in our goal to make the Internet a safer place for everyone,” said Against Intuition’s CEO Esa Suurio. “WOT prides itself in providing frontline protection in the battle against online threats, and with this strong collaboration between Panda Security and Web of Trust we have strengthened both our offerings and given our users a definite advantage against cybercrime.”

Free Web safety tool provides protection against online threats

Web of Trust is a unique community-based safe surfing tool that uses an intuitive traffic-light style rating system to help Internet users stay safe as they search, browse, and shop online. The WOT security add-on provides safety ratings to search results when using Google, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, and other popular sites, helping people protect their computers and personal information. Web site ratings are continuously updated by millions of members of the WOT community and from numerous trusted sources, such as phishing site listings. The free Internet security add-on works with Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers and can be downloaded at http://www.mywot.com .

About Panda Security

Founded in 1990, Panda Security is the world’s leading provider of cloud-based security solutions with products available in more than 23 languages and millions of users located in 195 countries around the world. Panda Security was the first IT security company to harness the power of cloud computing with its Collective Intelligence technology. This innovative security model can automatically analyze and classify thousands of new malware samples per day, guaranteeing corporate customers and home users the most effective protection against Internet threats with minimum impact on PC performance. Panda Security has 56 offices throughout the globe with US headquarters in California and European headquarters in Spain. For more information, log on to http://www.pandasecurity.com/.

About Against Intuition

With 5 million users worldwide, Against Intuition’s flagship product Web of Trust (WOT) offers Internet users preventive protection against online threats and scams. WOT’s patent-pending reputation management system computes ratings from individual users and trusted sources based on trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy, and child safety. Sophisticated algorithms guarantee objective reputation management, ensure reliability, and protect against manipulation. Against Intuition is located in Helsinki, Finland.For more information or to download the WOT security add-on, please visit http://www.mywot.com

Panda Security. Bilbao office: Gran Vía Don Diego López de Haro 4. 48001 Bilbao, Spain Madrid office: Ronda de Poniente 17, 28760 Madrid, Spain communication@pandasecurity.com phone: +34 91 806 37 00

Against Intuition. Esa Suurio, CEO Against Intuition, Inc. Italahdenkatu 27 A, 00210 Helsinki, Finland www.mywot.com esa.suurio@againstintuition.com phone: +358 40 716 9301