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Startpage, powerd by Ixquick, is the world's most private search engine. It's the same Ixquick engine many of us have been using, with a new easier-to-remember name. WOT is happy to support Startpage and provide safety ratings for all the search results.

Startpage is a meta-search engine that does NOT record your IP address or use Unique ID cookies, which gives people concerned about privacy issues something to cheer about. Because of their privacy safeguards, Ixquick/Startpage was awarded the first European Privacy Seal, and became the first and only EU-approved search engine.

Try the Startpage search engine today.

America's Digital Goddess, Kim Komando, recommends WOT to help avoid malicious websites. This is a big deal because Kim Komando is a popular radio personality with a syndicated show on over 450 stations across the USA. She also writes a syndicated newspaper column, which runs in USA Today and USA Today.com.

We are thrilled that Kim is helping us spread the word about WOT to her loyal fans. Please visit her site and let her know that you are part of the awesome WOT community helping make the Internet safer for everyone.

Articles about WOT on Kim's website:

Easily avoid malicious Web sites

5 free programs to prevent PC problems

Last week's launch of Firefox 3.5 has been highly successful, and to help Mozilla celebrate, we have created the Surf Safer and Smarter by WOT collection on their new add-on collections. A collection is a group of related add-ons that anyone can create to share with others.

Please subscribe to our collection, and if you have any suggestions of great add-ons that help make browsing, searching and shopping on the Internet safer and smarter, please let us know and we'll add them to the collection. So far we've included:

• Web of Trust
• Adblock Plus
• Xmarks
• Better Privacy
• Surf Canyon

Add-ons may not be compatible with your system, so please check the details first. Firefox 3.5 is a free download for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Microsoft's Bing, the search engine formally known as Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search, has garnered lots of attention lately (and a bit of market share too.) WOT supports Bing search results with our ratings, in addition to supporting other popular search engines.

Porn made easy

Recent criticisms of Bing say that it's making searching for porn too easy. Bing has a feature called Smart Motion Previews which provides video previews in the search results, which is great in concept, but it doesn't know the difference between a video of sleeping puppies and porn. Any motivated middle schooler can easily turn off Bing's SafeSearch and watch porn for hours without ever visiting a porn site.

Kim Komando suggests blocking Bing until Microsoft comes up with a solution. For people attempting to surf porn at work, Microsoft has published instructions for a workaround that will make it harder to access porn from their work PCs.

What is your opinion? Vote in our poll.

ESET security researchers are warning people of a massive spam campaign related to fireworks and Independence Day that will be used this holiday weekend to trick people into visiting malicious websites.

The Waledac botnet, estimated at tens of thousands of infected computers, are expected to send out links to videos of Independence Day fireworks which hide new copies of Waledac malware. ESET says that many antivirus programs do not detect this type of viruses, so, as always, do not open any links in unsolicited email. Read the report.