Comments on websites

Well lyricsfreak.com has always been suspicious since long time now and I have even used it sometime back and had a lot of PC hang problems.

I have rated it in red.

Thanks for bringing this issue into consideration.

Regards,
Anand.

Yea, I just rated it red. As long as you are using Firefox with adblock, you should be alright but not all people have that kind of setup and they shouldn't really have to either.

It counts as overall of all users voted

Q: How to safely visit dangerous site?
A: 1) Use safe browser. Usually this means: "do not use Internet Explorer". Try fresh versions of FireFox, Opera or Safary.
2) Disable JavaScript in your browser.
3) Use antivirus that supports browser-integration.

Q: What about lyricsfreak.com?
I'm not sure but I think this site was hacked recently. "Black" hackers usually do such things to get more computers for their botnets. My own site was infected few times in the same way until I recasted site's security policy.

Alex' suggestion to disable javascript isn't feasible. The WOT scorecard rating relies on javascript. Disable javascript and you'll receive an error msg when trying to send a rating (and the comment text field will be unavailable to you)
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"Sorry, this page does not work correctly without JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript on your browser."

The myWOT staff might consider adding a "report an unsafe site for review / verification" contact form to the website "support" menu (displayed only to logged-in members) and / or an additional flyout within the context menu of the browser plugin, similarly labeled "report an unsafe site for review / verification".

Verification?
The point is that some sites may merit "special handling" or may seem especially malicious (to the reporter, er, testifier), seeming to merit immediate "red flagging". A staff-verified rating (heavy weighting, definitive 'confidence') would expedite the rating process.

Another situation related to "special handling" and verification:

Consider what will transpire when a testifier reports on the "domain"
badsite.tld:8081/goboom.htm

He probably doesn't realize that the link he followed led to content which is being served from a non-standard port. He places a rating, submits a comment...

...and anyone reading the scorecard who attempts to "verify"
that badsite.tld is indeed bad, finds only innocuous content when they visit -- because the the "baddie" site owner is maintaining a "front", by also serving content from
badsite.tld:80

This thread opened with:
"lyricsfreak dawt com sometimes leads to an adbrite page"

Attention to the SOMETIMES factor spurred my "into the lion's den" remark.

Lion's den, slippery slope, can-o-worms... however you label it, verification will be problematic when content is being randomly / conditionally displayed at a given URL.

I dont have a specific browser for visiting potentially bad stuff.. I do have lots of layers though to protect me..

My Standard Windows Setup...
Router>Comp..
Firefox2\3 (always clearing pvt data etc - with phishing etc protection enabled)
HostsMan (MVPS list)
PeerGuardian 2 (various lists for p2p\trojans etc)
Spybot Search & Destroy (SDHelper enabled)
Clamwin Antivirus..
Stinger Standalone Antivirus
Custom Removal Tool for USB viruses I pick up at school constantly..
IE7 Pro for adblocking in IE etc.. (with WOT synched)
...

I have various initial posts on the tools i use etc.. Way back in the forums..

Peace
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Jared Gray

I have used PeerGuardian2, it seems good to me when I, but it kept on crashing. I don't like instable programs.

Someone told me about WinASo, and told me to check it out. It's a really good program; You should check it out. It is a registry optimizer, and it does more. Works wonders.
http://www.winaso.com/
The problem is, to get all the options, you need to buy it. The free downloads are for evaluation purposes.

I also use McAfee (which has borwser integration), and the oh-so-famous Ad-Aware.
I recommend getting different programs that focuses on different areas.

And I barely go to lyrics sites. So I'm good there =]

I have downloaded some lyrics to see if my Avira antivirus will take effect, and it allways were saying "your computer is infected with spyware... click here to clean it" I don`t have the Avira Premium so it can not clean against spywares but I have Glary Utilities and he has the Spyware and adware remover so my Mac is clean now.

Why can't some people be mature and give it a rating it deserves

They use AdBrite, afaik that specific network has been involved in serving malicious ads for some time now. Another example is Clicksor. These two are enough to make me use both NoScript and AdBlock and encourage others to to so also, to get rid of every ad. I realize this hurts legitimate website owners/ad networks, however in this case few bad apples do indeed ruin the entire harvest!

And not everyone always gets the same ads, so if one person got infected by visiitng the next might not ...

Now whether to rate site red or green or yellow because of their ad network is one question. Another is, why does the site continue to use such an ad network, which continues to support advertizers with malicious intent/ads which can possibly compromise computers?

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