Trusted Sources

28 September, 2006 the blog post: Responding to threats introduced the incorporation of trusted sources to WOT's reputation system.

What is a Trusted Source?
WOT incorporates automated scorecard references from various partners known as Trusted Sources. The Scorecard reference is added when the partner's database includes an entry and when the partner's database removes an entry, WOT's scorecard removes the reference. Inclusion / removal is not immediate, it takes about 24 hours for entries to appear or disappear after WOT has received notification from the source provider.

How Trusted Sources influence the reputation of a website
When computing ratings, trusted sources that are added to a scorecard have a different weight according to their reliability. This weight is manually assigned and depends on how data is collected and verified by the trusted source itself. For example, trusted sources that are fully automated and have a large number of false positives are considered less reliable than trusted sources whose data are verified by real people.

Trusted Sources by category
The current list of trusted sources includes

Adult

 * Generic
 * Scorecard entries are identified with the "Appeared on an Adult listing."

Malware
Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.


 * CERT-GIB - visit (RU) | visit (EN)


 * DNS-BH - visit


 * Google Safe Browsing - visit


 * hpHosts - visit


 * Malware Domain List - visit


 * Malware Patrol - visit


 * nGran - visit


 * Panda - visit


 * Yandex Safe Browsing - visit

Pharmaceutical

 * CIPA - visit
 * Entries on the scorecard are harvested from CIPA's list of fraudulent sites.


 * LegitScript.com - visit
 * Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.
 * Why trust LegitScript classifications? Forum discussion a note from LegitScript

Phishing

 * Artists Against 419 - visit
 * Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.


 * AutoShun (snort list) - visit
 * Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.


 * PhishTank - visit
 * Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.


 * Google Safe Browsing - visit
 * Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.


 * Yandex Safe Browsing - visit
 * Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.

Spam

 * joewein.de LLC - visit
 * Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly via the new listings blacklist.


 * SURBL - visit
 * Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly via the new listings blacklist.


 * Spam404 - visit
 * Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly via the new listings blacklist.

SSL Certificate

 * Symantec - visit
 * Represents having a valid Symantec SSL Certificate
 * (Formerly VeriSign)

Trust seal

 * TRUSTe - visit
 * Represents having a valid TRUSTe seal

General reference
These may be found on the scorecard's comment section. They do not affect the site's reputation and are presented for general reference.


 * Delicious: http://delicious.com/
 * Google News: http://news.google.com/
 * W3C | http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
 * Member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Removals

 * spamcop.net has been eliminated from WOT's Trusted Sources: 13 April, 2012 by WOT Staff: Sami
 * malwareurl.com has been eliminated from WOT's Trusted Sources for failure to respond to emails requesting domain removal. This action was performed by WOT Staff: Sami Revision as of 05:07, 30 September 2010