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★ 4.7
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93%
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94%
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4.7
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For this site, I have assigned a rating between good and suspicious for the My WOT Trustworthiness scale. The articles are good, and the reviews are helpful. However, the site's level of trust is somewhat compromised by the banner ads and pop ups that hinder its quality. I would recommend a quality ad blocker, such as Ad Block Plus, to be installed on your browser(s) of choice before visiting the site. If the pop-ups were removed, the site would be much better.
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Great informational site. Found site while searching to find lost phone. Used the info., phone isn't lost anymore:)
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22 web bugs (Invisible Tracking Cookie) are you people serious???
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Web bug link to wikipedia” Tracking Cookie)
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Web bug link to wikipedia”
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Pop up while I am reading the article is highly annoying. Won't go back.
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One of the best guide/news sites for us pc nerds.
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Site has great writing and technical information but contains loads of non-hostile ads and trackers (advertising, analytics, beacons, widgets, etc.)
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UPDATE: Site now passes numerous security tests.
UPDATE: Site now passes numerous security tests.
Google Safe Browsing
Diagnostic page for pcmag.com
What happened when Google visited this site?
Of the 3189 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 1 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2015-08-11, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on *****
Malicious software includes 9 scripting exploit(s).
Malicious software is hosted on 1 domain(s), including *****
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PCmag - a very reputable PC magazine since the eighties. Rely on them for PC info related.
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http://quttera.com/detailed_report/pcmag.com
No Malware Detected By Free Online Website Scan On This Website.
Submission date: Sat Oct 3 03:13:04 2015
Server IP address: *****
Country: United States
Server: Unknown
Malicious files: 0
Suspicious files: 0
Potentially Suspicious files: 0
http://www.urlvoid.com/scan/pcmag.com/
on the black list
Safety Reputation 1/30
Domain 1st Registered ***** (20 years ago)
Server Location Flag (US) United States
quttera.com/detailed_report/pcmag.com
Malicious files: 88 [ now OK ]
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Gute Seite rund um PC. Hier geht es auch um WOT
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Reason for Spam and Ads. The site is amazing, but you have games and others Ads trying to pop-up all of the time. For my son Kaspersky parental controls allow access, but constantly blocks Ads for games and other downloads. Other than that it's very good.
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Interesting articles and reviews.
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It is a good computer site- but it has A LUDICROUS NUMBER OF THINGS ATTEMPTING TO RUN IN THE BACKGROUND!!!
Unless you know how to configure things like NoScript and Request Policy your best bet is to probably stay away.
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PCMag is absolutely safe, the reviews may not be very accurate, but it's safe to go to and I read the site just for fun.
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It is an intresting technology website. It is full of intresting and detailed hardware and software reviews as well as the latest technology news!
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Site is great,and has a lot information about tech.It is safe for children and educational.There are news about phones,computers,laptops and much more.You can take quizzes,for example to see which Windows version you are.Very interesting site to visit.
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Maybe it's a wrong opinion, still whichever article I read on PCMAG didn't seem really valuable and TRUSTFUL. Any advice they gave turned out to be just a waste of words and time.
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A computers and other technology news site.
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A good site, but I found 9 different trackers with 24 requests in total. If you are willing to go to this site, do it with Adblock Plus and Disconnect (it blocks trackers).
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Useful articles, but page contains an obscene number of advertising, analyzer scripts, et al.
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