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2016-05-17T20:21:26Z

Site-rater: /* Currently there are five forums */ Add mobile forum, change http to https, fix capitalization of forum names, correct name for support forum

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You must [https://www.mywot.com/user/register register an account] to participate on the Forums.

== Before creating or replying on the main Forum ==
Please take a moment to view the WOT community guidelines:
:* [https://www.mywot.com/guidelines General guidelines]
:* [https://www.mywot.com/guidelines/site-owners Website owner guidelines]
:* [https://www.mywot.com/guidelines/forum-guidelines Forum guidelines]

== Currently there are six forums ==
# [https://www.mywot.com/forum/1 General discussion]
#: General and off-topic community chat.
# [https://www.mywot.com/en/forum/5 Site evaluations]
#: Site owners may post in this forum to have their reputation evaluated by the WOT community
#: Ownership must be '''verified''' to post in this forum
# [https://www.mywot.com/forum/3 Reputation discussions]
#: For the community to discuss the reputation of domains they don't own.
# [https://www.mywot.com/forum/2 Support]
#: Problems with the add-on
# [https://www.mywot.com/forum/11 WOT for Mobile]
#: Discussion of the WOT Mobile Security application
# [https://www.mywot.com/forum/7 Обсуждение репутации сайтов]
#: Ветка для обсуждения сайтов и их оценок сообществом. Если вы владелец, то вам в ветку "Site evaluations"
#: ''translated:'' <blockquote>A forum for the Russian community to discuss websites and their ratings. If you are the site/domain owner, post your site in the [http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/5 Site Evaluations] forum</blockquote>

== Post / Reply ==
Older forum posts are presented in the nested post format where replies are placed directly below the post you are replying to.

Newer forum posts, created on or after [http://www.mywot.com/forum/11248-changes-to-the-forum?comment=77514#comment-77514 26 April 2011], are presented in the flat post format and replies are placed in chronological order, these replies contain the text of the post your are replying to in a <quote> tag

see also: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software#Flat_vs._threaded Flat vs. threaded]

=== Post actions ===
; [[File:Icon-edit2.gif]] Edit
: You have the ability to edit previous entries you've made on the forum.
: WOT Forum retains the original post date. Editing does not [https://encrypted.google.com/#hl=en&q=thread+bump&tbs=dfn:1 bump] the discussion.
: As a common courtesy, it is suggested that you place edited content at the bottom of your original comment, for comparison, along with a manually created edit tag such as '''[edit ''date edited'']''' as the top line of your changes being made.

; [[File:Icon-reply.png]] Reply
: Allows you to reply directly to a post. Older, nested-style post replies have no content, newer flat-style post replies contain the post your are replying to in a <quote> tag.

; [[File:Icon-delete.gif]] Delete
: Allows you to delete your posted replies. You can not delete the first / start post, also known as the Original Post (OP). Only WOT Staff and Forum Moderators may remove entire discussions aka: topics or threads.
: Careful, this action can not be undone.

; [[File:Icon-flag.png]] Flag
: Report [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_%28electronic%29 spam] or other inappropriate content to forum moderators.
: There is a text area which allows the reporter to explain why the comment is being flagged.
: This is not meant to be used for quarreling, if you disagree with a comment simply post a public reply stating so.
: implemented: [http://www.mywot.com/forum/14960-does-anyone-noticed-the-flag-button?comment=101134#comment-101134 August, 2011]

== Allowed HTML ==

The forum does '''not''' incorporate [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode BBcode]

Instead you have the ability to use [http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ HTML tags] as well as customized tags specific for certain usages. Basic HTML is allowed. JavaScript, CSS, and other extended rules are sanitized.

Below the post / reply message box, you will see:
<blockquote>Allowed HTML tags: <a> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <img> <red> <green> <yellow> <massrate> <quote> 
Lines and paragraphs break automatically. 
Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</blockquote>
Also, notice the link to the official posting help: [http://www.mywot.com/filter/tips More information about formatting options]

=== Standard HTML tags allowed ===
==== <a> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_a.asp anchor tag]
: used to make links to other posts or web pages
: Attributes allowed:
:* ''href'' - Specifies the destination of a link
:* ''title'' - Tool tip text displayed with mouse-over
:* ''target'' - Specifies where to open the linked document
:: ''_blank'' - opens in new tab or window
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;"><a href="http://www.mywot.com">WOT (Web of Trust)</a></pre>
: Result: [http://www.mywot.com/ WOT (Web of Trust)]

==== ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_phrase_elements.asp emphasized text]
: used in lieu of italic tag 
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;">This text is emphasized</pre>
: Result: ''This text is emphasized''

==== <strike> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_strike.asp strike tag]
: defines strike-through text
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;">This text has been <strike>stricken</strike></pre>
: Result: This text has been <strike>stricken</strike>

==== ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_phrase_elements.asp strong text]
: used in lieu of bold tag 
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;">This text is strong</pre>
: Result: '''This text is strong'''

==== <cite> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_phrase_elements.asp cited text]
: Defines a citation
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;"><cite>This text is a citation</cite></pre>
: Result: <blockquote><cite>This text is a citation</cite></blockquote>

==== <code> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_phrase_elements.asp code tag]
: Defines computer source code text
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example code snippet:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;"><code>for (i=0;i<=5;i++)</code></pre>
: Result: <code>for (i=0;i<=5;i++)</code>
: Example URL:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;"><code>http://www.example.com/page.html</code></pre>
: Result: <code>http://www.example.com/page.html</code>
: ''notice the link is not "live"''

==== <ul> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_ul.asp unordered list tag]
: Defines an unordered (bulleted) list; use the <li> to begin each list item
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;"><ul><li>first line</li><li>second line</li><li>third line</li></ul></pre>
: Result: <ul><li>first line</li><li>second line</li><li>third line</li></ul>

==== <ol> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_ol.asp ordered list tag]
: Defines an ordered (numbered) list; use the <li> to begin each list item
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;"><ol><li>first line</li><li>second line</li><li>third line</li></ol></pre>
: Result: <ol><li>first line</li><li>second line</li><li>third line</li></ol>

==== <li> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_li.asp li tag]
: Defines a list item.
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example: see ''UL'' or ''OL'' tags (above)

==== <dl> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_dl.asp definition list tag]
: Defines a definition list
: The <dl> tag is used in conjunction with:
:* <dt> defines the item (term) in the list
:* <dd> describes the item in the list
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;"><dl><dt>item 1</dt><dd>item 1 description</dd><dt>item 2</dt><dd>item 2 description</dd></dl></pre>
: Result: <dl><dt>item 1<dd>item 1 description<dt>item 2<dd>item 2 description</dl>

==== <img> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_img.asp image tag]
: used to embed an image in a post or web page
: Attributes allowed:
:* ''src'' - Specifies the URL of an image; images must be available online.
:* ''alt'' - Specifies an alternate text for an image
:* ''title'' - Tool tip text displayed with mouse-over
:* ''width'' - Specifies the width of an image; values are expressed in '''px''' (pixels) or '''%''' (percentage)
:* ''height'' - Specifies the height of an image; values are expressed in '''px''' (pixels) or '''%''' (percentage)
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;"><img src="http://www.mywot.com/w/wotlogo.png" alt="WOT Logo" title="WOT Logo" /></pre>
: Result: [[File:Wotlogo.png|WOT Logo]]

=== Customizd tags ===
These custom tags are created by WOT Staff and incorporated into forum use; they are not true HTML tags. Some are taken from ideas posted on the forum by members, others are created out of necessity. The color tags were created back in 2009 from this discussion: [https://www.mywot.com/forum/3675--timo-colors-please @ Timo - colors please] Colors are meant for domain references but may also be used for highlighting a point in a conversation now and then. Please do not abuse this added feature.

==== <red> ====
: Format text color to red
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;">The color is <red>RED</red></pre>
: Result: The color is RED

==== <green> ====
: Format text color to green
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;">The color is <green>GREEN</green></pre>
: Result: The color is GREEN

==== <yellow> ====
: Format text color to yellow
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;">The color is <yellow>YELLOW</yellow></pre>
: Result: The color is YELLOW

==== <massrate> ====
: Used to contain domain lists consisting of 9 or more domains
: Reduces post length and page scrolling by placing the domain list into a scrollable container (box).
:: Forum announcement: ''03 Feb 2011'' [http://www.mywot.com/forum/9287-how-to-post-mass-rating-lists How to post mass-rating lists]
:* note: you can combine tags, such as the <red> color tag
: Example:
<div style="margin-left:25px;background:#F9F9F9;padding:10px 20px;border:1px dashed #2F6FAB"><tt>
<massrate> <red> example_01.com example_02.com example_03.com example_04.com example_05.com example_06.com example_07.com example_08.com example_09.com example_10.com example_11.com </red> </massrate></tt></div>
: Result
: '''List of domains/hosts:'''
<div style="margin-left:25px;padding:5px 20px;border:1px solid #333333;width:auto;max-width:400px;height:100px;overflow:auto;">
example_01.com example_02.com example_03.com example_04.com example_05.com example_06.com example_07.com example_08.com example_09.com example_10.com example_11.com </div> 

==== <quote> ====
: Automatically inserted when replying to a flat-style post - ''default reply''
: Can also be used manually as a post / reply tag.
: Attributes allowed:
:* ''user'' - Specifies the name of the member you are replying to
:: automatically added during ''Reply''
:: if optionally used with a manual insertion, the user name must be provided.
: NOTE:
: This tag is incorporated only in flat thread posts created on or after [http://www.mywot.com/forum/11248-changes-to-the-forum?comment=77514#comment-77514 26 April 2011]
: older nested posts will not auto-insert this tag.
: Example:
<div style="margin-left:25px;background:#F9F9F9;padding:10px 20px;border:1px dashed #2F6FAB">
<quote user="Admin"> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Etiam condimentum augue in purus fringilla scelerisque ultricies nisl hendrerit. Morbi tempor faucibus nisl sit amet viverra. Aenean diam lacus; mollis sit amet consequat eget, aliquet eget velit? Pellentesque id bibendum eros. Donec sed leo diam, laoreet venenatis lorem. Nam sed turpis. </quote></div>
: Result
<div style="margin-left:25px;padding:5px;">
[[File:Img-quote2.gif]] '''''Originally posted by:''' Admin'' 
''Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Etiam condimentum augue in purus fringilla scelerisque ultricies nisl hendrerit. Morbi tempor faucibus nisl sit amet viverra. Aenean diam lacus; mollis sit amet consequat eget, aliquet eget velit? Pellentesque id bibendum eros. Donec sed leo diam, laoreet venenatis lorem. Nam sed turpis.''
</div>

== HTML characters ==
For a full list of entities see HTML's [http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html entities] page.

A nice chart is available at: [http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm ascii.cl] 
See also:
* [http://brucejohnson.ca/SpecialCharacters.html HTML Special Characters]

Some of the available characters include:

=== Business ===
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
|+'''HTML character entities'''
|-
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | Symbol
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | Description
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | HTML Number
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | HTML Name
|-
| © || Copyright || &#169; || &copy;
|-
| ® || Registered || &#174; || &reg;
|-
| ™ || Trademark || &#8482; ||  
|}

=== Currency ===
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
|+'''HTML character entities'''
|-
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | Symbol
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | Description
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | HTML Number
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | HTML Name
|-
| $ || US Dollar || &#36; ||  
|-
| ¢ || Cent sign || &#162; || &cent;
|-
| £ || British Pound || &#163; || &pound;
|-
| € || Euro || &#8364; || &euro;
|}

=== Punctuation ===
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
|+'''HTML character entities'''
|-
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | Symbol
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | Description
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | HTML Number
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | HTML Name
|-
| & || Ampersand || &#38; || &amp;
|-
| @ || At symbol || &#64; ||  
|-
| : || Colon || &#58; ||  
|-
| . || Period || &#46; ||  
|-
| – || en dash || &#8211; ||  
|-
| — || em dash || &#8212; ||  
|-
| " || Quotation mark || &#34; || &quot;
|-
| ✓ || Check mark || &#10003; ||  
|-
|   || Space non-breaking || &#160; || &nbsp;
|-
| # || Number sign aka: ''Hash tag'' || &#35; ||  
|-
| < || Less than || &#60; || &lt;
|-
| > || Greater than || &#62; || &gt;
|-
| = || Equal sign || &#61; ||  
|-
| ? || Question mark || &#63; ||  
|}

== Graphics ==
=== Adult content parental advisory ===
Include this image in a post / reply concerning domains having adult related material. 
Please limit usage to one instance per thread.
* English
: [[File:ParentalAdvisory.png]]
: <pre><img src="https://www.mywot.com/w/images/f/f6/ParentalAdvisory.png" /></pre>

== Moderation ==
[http://www.mywot.com/forum/11912-the-wot-forum-to-have-moderators The WOT forum to have moderators] posted: Fri 13 May 2011 - 10:18:39 AM UTC

The General Discussion forum is for posts which are off-topic to website reputation discussions or to WOT support discussions; '''however''' each thread created in the General Discussion forum has a topic as defined in the originating post [OP].

Any reply which is off-topic from the OP may be considered spam. 
Any post / reply advertising products or services linking off site is considered spam.

Spam shall be removed without warning, though for users who have messages enabled a public post will be left informing them what post was removed and why. The reason the PM is not private is for other moderators to be able to view.

; ''re:'' [http://www.mywot.com/forum/4908-forum-guidelines Forum guidelines]
: '''6. Spamming is prohibited'''
: Spamming is defined as either posting multiple times about the same thing or starting multiple topics about the same thing. Continually posting off-topic as well as providing links that have nothing to do with the forum at hand is also considered spam. Spam will be deleted without warning.

; ''re:'' [[Forum_Moderator#Moderator_duties|Moderator duties]]
: '''Spam removal'''
: The purpose is to keep the forum as a channel for useful information exchange, free of spam. The moderators have permission to remove postings that they judge as spamming.

Not all "off topic" replies are considered spam, it depends upon the flow of conversation within the discussion, however a moderator may step in and offer a friendly reminder to ''stay on topic''.

see also: [[Forum Moderator]]

== Inactive accounts ==
There are two forms of inactive accounts:

=== WOT Terminated ===
* Banned
*: Banned users are accounts terminated by WOT Staff generally for some form of abuse such as spamming. The user name retains a profile link and next to the user name you will see '''(Banned)''' All ratings and posts are deleted.
* Deleted
*: When WOT Staff deletes a user's account the user's posts remain and the user name is replaced with ''Anonymous''

=== User Terminated ===
* Delete account
*: Users who [http://www.mywot.com/faq/website/membership#deleteaccount delete their own account] no longer retain a profile link because there is no profile to visit. Their forum posts are retained and next to the user name you will see ''(not verified)''

WOT Mobile

2016-04-28T23:21:35Z

Site-rater: Add official WOT Mobile Security app

There have been many requests asking for a WOT app. While the WOT developers have said they have no plans to create a WOT app at this time ([http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/15012-android-s-built-in-browser-wot-or-alternatives-support-now-in-the-future?comment=102016#comment-102016 reference]) there are a few ways you can have WOT ratings at your finger tips! 
Update: WOT recently released a mobile app for Android®

= Official WOT App =
A new official WOT application is now available for Google Play, titled WOT Mobile Security. 
'''Available for''': Android® 3.0 or higher. 
'''Available at''': https://www.mywot.com/mobile-app or directly from Google Play at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.my.wot

= Tap&Trust Browser =
This browser is compatible with search engines and the myWOT.com webpage. '''Available for''': Android® sdk version Honeycomb - 3.0 (API level 11); compile sdk version Marshmallow - 6.0 (API level 23). '''Created by WOT member''': [https://www.mywot.com/user/6712132 Matiks]. [https://www.mywot.com/en/forum/64188-mywot-android-browser Forum]. '''Available at''': [http://tapandtrust.co.uk/Tap&Trust-Browser tapandtrust.co.uk] and [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.matiks.mywot and soon Google Play.]

= App add-ons =
== WOT Member-created ==
'''Available for''': Android®. '''Created by''': [https://www.mywot.com/user/6712132 Matiks]. [https://www.mywot.com/forum/54448-wot-android-app Forum]. '''Available at''': [http://matiks.it-mate.co.uk it-mate.co.uk] and [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.matiks.mywot Google Play]

== Coast by Opera ==
[[File:Coast_logo.png|60px|right]]

'''Available for''': iPad from with Apple iOS 6.0 or later (Safari running on iOS7 has no WOT add-on). [https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/id674024845 Available on iTunes]. [http://www.mywot.com/blog/449-wot-goes-mobile-with-coast-by-opera-for-ipad#comments Blog post.]

== Dolphin Browser® add-ons ==

'''Available for''':
* Android® Phone and Android® Pad
* There currently are '''no known Dolphin browser add-ons that incorporate WOT for Apple'''. If you find any, please announce them on the [http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/21672-wot-alternatives-for-mobile-browsers forum]

[[File:Dolphin_logo.png|75px|right]]
'''First, download''': [http://dolphin-browser.com/ Dolphin Browser®]

Once the Dolphin browser is installed, one or both of the following add-ons may be added by simply swiping to the [http://dolphin-browser.com/dolphin-for-android-phone-faqs/ Right SideBar] and select the add-on you wish to use:

[[File:Dolphin_Companion.png|thumb|50px|right| Dolphin Battery Saver]]
* '''Dolphin Battery Saver'''. It is promoted as a battery saving app but it ''also has a Security manager'' to help protect your browsing security. It will give you a warning you when come across untrusted websites which have low ratings by WOT. It will also show you the secure info (WOT ratings) of each page. '''Available at''': [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dolphin.battery.saver Dolphin Battery Saver]

[[File:Dolphin_Ultimate_Flag.png|thumb|75px|right|Dolphin Ultimate Flag]]
* '''Ultimate Flag'''. It shows the security index of a website from both WOT and McAfee [http://www.siteadvisor.com/ SiteAdvisor], as well as the countries and regions of the site. It also shows you the website's IP address and allows you to easily copy the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol IP address]. '''Availabe at''': [http://dolphin-browser.com/add-ons/privacy-security/ultimate-flag/ Ultimate Flag] and [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.mgeek.UltimateFlag Google Play]

= Bookmarklet =
'''Available for''': Apple IPad. [http://www.mywot.com/download Download the bookmarklet] provided by WOT, then [[Apple iPad | configure]] it to run in Safari [[File:Safari_logo.png|20px]].

= Search engine =
'''Available for''': [https://duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.google.com%2Fstore%2Fapps%2Fdetails%3Fid%3Dcom.duckduckgo.mobile.android Android] or [https://duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fus%2Fapp%2Fid663592361 iOS8 (currently in beta)] [[File:Safari_logo.png|20px]]. After installing the '''DuckDuckGo''' app, go to the [https://duckduckgo.com/settings#appearance settings page]. At the bottom you'll find ''WOT icons'' which you can turn '''On'''.

= Mobile browsers compatible with myWOT.com webpage =
The following mobile browsers allow login to myWOT.com, show proper page layout, and display scorecard buttons. However, these browsers do not have a WOT add-on.
* Opera Mobile version 12.1 (not version 15+) for Android 1.6+. Version 12.1 is not availale from the Google Play store; but is available at the [http://www.opera.com/mobile/download/versions Opera site].
* [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details%3Fid%3Dorg.mozilla.firefox Firefox for Android]

= Questions =
If you have any questions, please feel free to post in the WOT forum discussion: [http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/21672-wot-alternatives-for-mobile-browsers WOT alternatives for mobile browsers]

WOT widget

2016-01-09T22:37:37Z

BFeely: Adjust script call to work on both HTTP and HTTPS

=Adding ratings to your website or blog=
[http://www.mywot.com/blog/adding-ratings-to-your-website Originally discussed on the WOT Blog] ''published on Thu 05 Jun 2008 by Sami''

Some of you may have noticed the rating symbols shown next to external links on our website and the small tooltip that links to the target site's reputation scorecard. Now you can add these to your website as well using the small web widget we created.

To add the widget to your website, simply insert the following snippet to your site's source code and let the widget take care of the rest:

<pre>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="//api.mywot.com/widgets/ratings.js"></script>
</pre>

We have also included some options that let you customize where and how the ratings are displayed. This makes it possible to add ratings only to parts of your site, such as links posted in blog comments, for example.

=Controlling where ratings are shown=
Ratings are added to all external links on the page unless instructed otherwise. You can limit the ratings to only some of the links by defining one or more options as follows:
<pre>
var wot_rating_options = {
option_1: value,
...
option_N: value
};
</pre>

==Widget options:==
===selector===
Defines [http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors a CSS selector]. The widget adds ratings for any link that matches this selector.

Example: If your page has a HTML element with an id attribute "comments" and you want to limit ratings only to links inside that element, set the selector option as follows:
<pre>
var wot_rating_options = {
selector: "#comments a[href]"
};
</pre>

===exclude===
Defines [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Guide:Regular_Expressions a regular expression]. Ratings are not shown for links where the hostname matches this expression.

Example: If your page has links to the domain example.com and you don't want to show ratings for these links, set the exclude option as follows:
<pre>
var wot_rating_options = {
exclude: /^(.+\.)*example\.com$/i
};
</pre>

===exclass===
Defines [http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#h-7.5.2 an element class]. Ratings are not shown for links that belong to this class. This option has the default value "wot-exclude".

Example: If your page has links matching the selector option above who belong to the class "norating" and you don't want to show ratings for them, set the exclass option as follows:
<pre>
var wot_rating_options = {
exclass: "norating"
};
</pre>

===exchildren===
Defines [http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors a CSS selector]. If the link matching the selector option has one or more child elements matching this selector, ratings are not shown for the link. This option has the default value "img", which removes ratings from image links.

Example: If you don't want to show ratings for links that have a child element of type img or div, set the exchildren option as follows:
<pre>
var wot_rating_options = {
exchildren: "img, div"
};
</pre>

===updateinterval===
Defines an interval in milliseconds. If your page has dynamically added links and you want ratings to appear for them too, you'll need to define how often the widget should look for new links and update the ratings.

Example: If you want the widget to check for missing ratings once a second, set the updateinterval option as follows:
<pre>
var wot_rating_options = {
updateinterval: 1000
};
</pre>

=Example: Blogger=
We created [http://wotwidget.blogspot.com/ a sample blog] that shows how to add the widget to your Blogger pages.

1. Click the "Customize" link on your blog.
2. Click the "Edit HTML" link on the Layout page.
3. Scroll down the "Edit Template" field until you find the </head> tag.
4. Copy and paste the following snippet just before the tag:
<pre>
<script type="text/javascript">
var wot_rating_options = {
selector: ".post-body a[href], .comment-body a[href]"
};
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="//api.mywot.com/widgets/ratings.js"></script>
</pre>

This adds ratings to your blog posts and user comments. If you only want to show them for user comments, set the selector option to ".comment-body a[href]".

==Questions?==
If you have any questions about using the widget on your website, post a comment on the [http://www.mywot.com/blog/adding-ratings-to-your-website blog article].

How To Ask For Rating

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== Getting started ==

Since there's no way to predict your experience level, this guide has elements directed to novices.

Before asking, please do a quick check of your website and answer the following questions to yourself. Please fix any issues you find. Regular voters will notice these things and ask you to correct them anyway. Please note: The rules here might seem a bit harsh, but trust is one of the most coveted goods on the internet; Easy to lose, difficult to gain.

===Do you have a Contact Information/Imprint?===

If you have a shop, you need it. While it may or may not be required by your local law, the WOT community frowns upon missing contact information. Please understand, laws differ by country, we cannot take such things into account. We use the simple rule that you need one. While you might not agree, you should add one or be prepared to explain why you haven't.

Think about it, would you trust someone who declines to tell you his / her name?

A Contact Us page should include:
* Company name
* Your name
* Phone number
* A physical address
* A business email address
* A business phone number

<blockquote>Tip! Displaying contact information may be done using an image as opposed to written text. This allows the data to be viewed by human eyes and less likely to be harvested by spam bots or other automated processes.</blockquote>

===Do you have a Privacy Statement?===

With a privacy statement you declare what you do with collected information. People are increasingly sensitive about these things.
Since privacy is a big concern, it has its own page.

If you have no privacy statement or are not sure about it: [[Privacy_Policy|Look here]]

For tips to create your own privacy policy: [[How_To_Privacy_Policy|Look here]]

Basically you need a privacy statement when you:

* Use Web Bugs
* Use HTTP Cookies
* Flash Cookies (LSOs)
* Have input forms (collecting especially [[Personally Identifiable Information (PII)]])

===Do you need SSL Encryption?===

If you collect any sensitive information e.g. [[Personally Identifiable Information (PII)]], you should use 'https' to do so. A login box may require SSL depending on the content it unlocks.

Basically it's the difference between a postcard and a sealed letter. Ask yourself: "Would I write my credit card/account information on a postcard?". Use common sense to decide whether you need SSL or not. If you are unsure, SSL is the safe bet. If unsure, ask for opinions.

Once you have SSL on your site, you can check to make sure that it is properly configured at [https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html SSL Shopper] or [https://www.digicert.com/help/ DigiCert]

===Important things about asking===

The first and foremost thing: Be polite. The answers/questions you get in response may sound hostile to you. People look at your website and try to find something that is wrong with it. It's similar to a test in school: The teacher tries to find the mistakes. While this may feel hostile, it isn't. We just want to make sure your site is safe and trustworthy.

The second thing is: If you do get overly emotional because of questions you're asked from users, don't post a reply!! take a deep breath, Wait a few minutes or hours if necessary, and once you have control of your emotions, post a reply on the thread. This is important as anger can distort judgement, and lead to you saying things you may later regret.

Also, please take into account that a lot of people (probably you, too) in the forum are not native speakers of English and may not even know that their answers sound gruff.

If these things are taken into consideration before asking for a rating, the outcome will more likely be a happy one for all involved:-)

===Time to ask!===

(Please note: If you have already asked and were referred here, don't open a new thread!)
To speed things up, please give us the following information when you request a review of your site:

* Mention the domain name in the title
* Mention the domain name in the text
* Acknowledge the site has a privacy policy with a link in the footer, along with the Terms of Service (ToS) if the site is a forum or offers a service or product (business).
* If you are not the owner, tell us your affiliation to the site
* Give us a few words about your site, tell us what it is, a shop, a blog, etc.

All the best.
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[[Wie_frage_ich_um_Bewertung|Deutsch Seite/German Page]]

Forum Moderator

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{{RightTOC}}
[http://www.mywot.com/forum/11912-the-wot-forum-to-have-moderators The WOT forum to have moderators] posted: Fri 13 May 2011 - 10:18:39 AM UTC

Selected moderators: (referenced for archival purposes)
:* [http://www.mywot.com/user/73776 leofelix]
:* [http://www.mywot.com/user/24160 MysteryFCM]
:* [http://www.mywot.com/user/123741 c۞g]
:* [http://www.mywot.com/user/2187506 NotBuyingIt]
:* [http://www.mywot.com/user/1574099 Fantozzi] (russian forum only & site evaluations in russian. Not active any more)
:* [http://www.mywot.com/user/6022704 Nick Vini] (russian forum only)
:* [http://www.mywot.com/user/4718228 Robert.Ru] - WOT support for russian users

== Moderator duties ==
; Spam removal
: The purpose is to keep the forum as a channel for useful information exchange, free of spam. The moderators have permission to remove postings that they judge as spamming.
:; Spam examples:
:: Advertisements of third-party sites and services.
:: Duplicate postings
; Inappropriate posts
: Posts not conforming to [http://www.mywot.com/guidelines Community Guidelines] or to [http://www.mywot.com/guidelines/forum-guidelines Forum Guidelines]
: Examples include:
:: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off_topic Off-topic posts / replies]
:: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_%28electronic%29#Newsgroup_and_forum Forum spam]
:: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_%28Internet%29 Flaming]
:: [[Pointless forum threads]]
:: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_trolls Trolling]

; Community safety
: Posts containing live links to dangerous websites are to be hidden and the user should be notified via PM as to why the post was removed.
:* example:
:: Why is site http://example.com/ green when it's reported by Google SafeBrowsing as an attack site?
:: 1] the user posted a live link rather than the simple domain name; ie: ''example.com''
:: 2] The domain does not [yet] have a poor reputation so WOT allows the link to be followed
:: 3] Visiting the site by clicking on the link could potentially infect the visitors computer.
:: these postings, including new topics should be hidden, it is not WOT's desire to lead its visitors to malicious websites.

; Arbitration
: When a moderator feels that a topic is getting too far off-topic or appears to be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_%28Internet%29 flaming], they shall step in and post a warning, as well as notifying Admins.

== Moderator disputes ==
Do not hide posts by other moderators, because this leads to conflicts. If a moderator posts something on the forum it is because she/he thinks it's appropriate. If you disagree, discuss it in private, not on the forums. If you feel the post made by a moderator is completely inappropriate, report it to Admins.

== Moderator actions ==

; [[File:Magic-wand.png]] Hide
: Allows a Moderator to remove a post from public view
: Once "hidden" you have the ability to undo your changes; see Show (below)

; [[File:Magic-wand.png]] Show
: A quick "toggle" to show the post a Moderator has hidden.
: This is only available once hidden, refreshing the page permanently removes the hidden post from Moderator view.

=== Staff Options ===
; [[File:Icon_checkmark_box.png]] Highlight this post as being from a staff member?
: Moderators can announce themselves by ticking the check-mark box which, when checked, will turn your username blue and add (Moderator) in brackets.

== Flagged posts RSS feed ==
With the creation of the [[WOT_Forum#Post_actions|comment flag button]] users have the ability to report spam or other inappropriate content to forum moderators. These flagged posts are fed to an RSS feed:
http://www.mywot.com/crss/flagged

How to remove the add-on and synchronization (Russian)

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{{RightTOC}}
===Как удалить надстройку WOT===
Вы можете удалить надстройку WOT из любого вашего браузера. 
Если вам нужно удалить свой аккаунт, смотрите отдельную статью о том, [[Удалить_аккаунт|как удалить аккаунт]].

==== Браузер Google Chrome ====
# Щелкните правой кнопкой мыши значок WOT на панели инструментов
# Выберите в контекстном меню команду «'''Удалить'''»

==== Браузер FireFox ====
# В строке меню выберите раздел «'''Инструменты'''», далее «'''Дополнения'''»
# В открывшейся вкладке «'''Управление дополнениями'''» найдите WOT и нажмите кнопку «'''Удалить'''»
# Перезапустите ваш браузер для завершения процесса удаления.
<blockquote>Совет! Для быстрого вызова вкладки «'''Управление дополнениями'''», используйте сочетание клавиш ''Ctrl+Shift+A''.</blockquote>

==== Браузер Safari ====
# В строке меню выберите раздел «'''Правка'''», далее «'''Настройки'''»
# В открывшемся окне настроек перейдите к разделу «'''Расширения'''»
# В списке установленных расширений найдите WOT и нажмите кнопку «'''Удалить'''»
# Перезапустите ваш браузер для завершения процесса удаления.
<blockquote>Совет! Для быстрого доступа к настройкам браузера, используйте сочетание клавиш ''Ctrl+б''.</blockquote>

==== Браузер Opera ====
# Щелкните правой кнопкой мыши значок WOT на панели инструментов
# Выберите в контекстном меню команду «'''Удалить'''»

==== Браузер Internet Explorer ====
''Завершите работу браузера перед удалением надстройки''
* В операционных системах Microsoft Windows Vista и Windows 7
*: Откройте «'''Панель управления'''» и выберите «'''Программы и компоненты'''», в списке установленных программ найдите WOT и нажмите кнопку «'''Удалить'''»
* В операционных системах Microsoft Windows XP
*: Откройте «'''Панель управления'''» и выберите «'''Установка и удаление программ'''», в списке установленных программ найдите WOT и нажмите кнопку «'''Удалить'''»

===Как удалить синхронизацию===
У вас есть персональная страница участника и после установки дополнения WOT вы выполнили синхронизацию в вашем браузере, привязав к этому браузеру свой персональный анонимный идентификатор, однако, если по каким либо причинам вы решили удалить дополнение, то возможно вам также потребуется удалить информацию о вашем персональном анонимном идентификаторе. При удалении дополнения WOT, в некоторых браузерах, в зависимости от их устройства, информация о синхронизации вашего идентификатора может не удаляться автоматически, поэтому удалять эту информацию придётся вручную. Удаление этой информации не является обязательным, и после удаления дополнения она просто сохранится в вашем браузере и никаким образом не будет нарушать его работу. 

Ниже приведены инструкции для браузеров, из которых вы можете удалить эту информацию. 

''примечание:'' вы выполняете эти действия по данным инструкциям на свой страх и риск, если вы не уверенны в том, что вы делаете, не выполняйте никаких действий и не используйте данные инструкции!
==== Браузер Google Chrome ====
[[File:RemoveSync_ChromeRUS_001.png|thumb|right|Консоль инструментов разработчика «''Developer Tools''» (вкладка «''Resources''»)]]
[[File:RemoveSync_ChromeRUS_003.png|thumb|right|Контекстное меню]]

Заметьте, что в Google Chrome легче всего сначала удалить синхронизацию, а потом уже преступить к удалению надстройки WOT. 
Google Chrome хранит информацию о синхронизации в своём локальном хранилище 
Для того, чтобы удалить эту информацию используется ''Консоль Инструментов разработчика «Developer Tools»'' 
Получить доступ к консоли можно через страницу управления установленными расширениями, находясь в ''режиме разработчика'' 
# Доступ к управлению расширениями Google Chrome:
#:* На панели инструментов нажмите кнопку управления настройками браузера [[File:Google_Chrome_Settings_Button.png]]
#:* В раскрывшемся меню выберите «'''Инструменты'''», далее «'''Расширения'''»
# Переход в режим разработчика
#:* На странице управления расширениями установите флажок в чекбокс [[File:RemoveSync_ChromeRUS_002.png]]
# Доступ к Консоли Инструментов разработчика «'''Developer Tools'''»
#:* Найдите WOT в списке установленных расширений и щёлкните "''background.html''"
# Поиск информации о синхронизации
#:* В открывшемся окне консоли «'''Developer Tools'''» на панели вверху щёлкните кнопку «'''Resources'''»
#:* В дереве слева выберите и раскройте папку «'''Local Storage'''»
#:* Далее выберите единственный вложенный в эту папку объект (ID расширения)
# Удаление информации о синхронизации
#:* В списке справа найдите и удалите эти ключи (на первом рисунке справа они подсвечены жёлтым цветом):
#:*# witness_id
#:*# witness_key
#:* Щёлкните каждый объект правой кнопкой мыши и выберите в контекстном меню команду «'''Delete'''»
# Завершение удаления
#:* Перезапустите браузер для завершения процесса удаления
# Удаление, надстройки WOT
#:* Выполните действия, описанные [[#.D0.91.D1.80.D0.B0.D1.83.D0.B7.D0.B5.D1.80_Google_Chrome|здесь]]

==== Браузер FireFox ====
# Напечатайте в адресной строке "''about:config''" (без кавычек!) и нажмите клавишу ''Enter'' 
# Найдите эти настройки и сбросьте их значения, восстановив их по умолчанию: "''weboftrust.witness_id''" и "''weboftrust.witness_key''" 
# Перезапустите браузер для завершения процесса удаления. 
 
==== Браузер Internet Explorer ====

Информация о синхронизации для Internet Explorer хранится в реестре Windows, поэтому удалить эту информацию можно с помощью ''Редактора реестра''.
[[File:RemoveSync_Rgedit_RUS_x86_001.png|thumb|right|Окно команды «Выполнить»]]
[[File:RemoveSync_Rgedit_RUS_x86_002.png|thumb|right|Окно Редактора реестра]]
[[File:RemoveSync_Rgedit_RUS_x86_003.png|thumb|right|Контекстное меню]]
# Используя сочетание клавиш ''WinKey+R'' вызовите команду «'''[[Media:RemoveSync_Rgedit_RUS_x86_001.png|Выполнить]]'''»
# Введите команду ''regedit'' и нажмите клавишу ''Enter''. 
В окне редактора, в области слева перейдите к разделу: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AppDataLow\Software\Against Intuition\WOT
--------
* HKEY_CURRENT_USER
** Software
*** AppDataLow
**** Software
***** Against Intuition
****** WOT
 
В области справа найдите и удалите эти параметры:
# witness_id
# witness_key
 
Щёлкните каждый объект правой кнопкой мыши и выберите в контекстном меню команду «'''Удалить'''». Закройте окно редактора. Рекомендуется перезагрузить компьютер после выполнения правки содержимого реестра.

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==Что такое adware?==
Это рекламное компьютерное программное обеспечение. Слово ''Adware'' происходит от двух английских терминов, от начала термина ''Ad'' (полное название — ''Advertising'') — реклама, и от окончания термина ''Software'' — программное обеспечение или просто сокращение '''ПО''', называемое в русском языке как ''Рекламное ПО''. Иногда термином ''Adware'' называют вредоносное программное обеспечение, но по своей сути ''Adware'' не несёт в себе прямой цели нанесения вреда компьютеру.

===Основное предназначение Adware===
Основным назначением деятельности является показ рекламы и последующее извлечение прибыли с целью покрытия расходов на разработку бесплатного или условно бесплатного программного обеспечения, например, программы для конвертации видео- или аудио-файлов, клиента системы обмена мгновенными сообщениями ICQ, скринсейверы и т.д. В данном случае Adware является некоторым образом способом безденежной оплаты пользователем за использование программного обеспечения путём демонстрации этому пользователю рекламной информации, например, при при запуске программы, включающей в себя рекламный модуль.

===Способы распространения Adware===
Рекламное ПО обычно распространяется через Интернет и иногда устанавливается без ведома пользователя, как правило, после посещения определённого веб-сайта, например, содержащего бесплатные для просмотра эротические или порнографические материалы или бесплатной файлообменной сети, либо входит в состав дистрибутивов некоторых бесплатных или условно бесплатных программ.

===Поведение Adware===
Обычно, данного рода программы показывают рекламу непосредственно на Рабочем столе компьютера или например, в окнах веб-браузера. Большинство таких программ устанавливаются без согласия пользователя и не имеют в своём составе программы деинсталляции, что значительно затрудняет удаление этого ПО с компьютера пользователя.

===Способы защиты от Adware===
Чтобы защититься от Adware, Вы можете установить на свой компьютер надёжное антивирусное программное обеспечение, имеющее функцию блокировки, либо программу, обладающую функцией песочницы, что позволяет запускать приложения (например, веб-браузер) в ограниченной виртуальной среде, и не опасаться за безопасность всей системы, находящейся вне виртуальной оболочки.

Ideas

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===Purpose of this page===

The purpose of this site is to collect new ideas and group them. If they are just mentioned in the forum, they get lost after a while. The site is structured into the following sections

*New ideas, which are basically all ideas that come in
*Ideas liked by the community
*Ideas that are disliked/dismissed by community or staff
*Ideas that are considered for implementation by staff
*Ideas that have been implemented

===Rules===

*Discussion of ideas happens in the forum.
*Ideas should be described in one short sentence. If a longer explanation is necessary, please post it in the forum and link to it.
*If an idea is moved to another section, don't explain it inline. Just reference the forum discussion or add the reason to the wiki discussion page. This is to reduce clutter. 
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===New and Pending Ideas===

New ideas that are posted in the forum should be added here. Please add a short description and a link to the thread.

====WOT Forum/Wiki/Homepage====
''Features you would like to see added to enhance the Homepage, Forum, Wiki, etc.''
*Add a more visible link to download the application with different language.
*Add a new colour for websites where positive comments contradict ratings a lot. Such websites are often real treasures - especially when it comes to non mainstream news sites. They would be easier to find and promoted that way - rather than punished by shills.
*User Board Folders: create/rename/edit {set public vs. private]/remove - an area to organize personal notes or to "move" PM's for archiving, maybe a MAX of 3 or 5 "folders"
*Add Rhodium as a level above platinum at 25,000 possibly.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Toolbars Full edit toolbar]
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VideoFlv Extension:VideoFlv]
*Recommend or prompt the new registered users to read the Wiki first
*Show page numbers at the top of forum threads, (not only at the bottom).
*Make the OP (Original Post) different on pages other than the first page (different color, background, border etc.) - [http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/6764-the-original-post-should-be-different Discussion]
*Add a "Remember thread" feature to the forum. Remembered threads should be visible on a new card on user page
*Allow users to tag threads as useful interesting, remarkable,...
*Color threads from the 3 different categories in different colors. (Purely cosmetic)
*Add a languages field to the profile to encourage people stating the languages they speak
*Add combined ratings as a further column to "My Ratings" tab to highlight differences between on rating and community ratings. Allow sorting for differences.
*Add an icon to the "My ratings tab" which shows that I have also commented a site
*Improve export by adding current community ratings to it as a further block
*Move the "Delete Account" button elsewhere. It is easy to click it when you edit the profile
*Improve layout of the forum for users with a small screen
*Base user levels shown in forum only on forum post count. Don't use Bronze - Platinum. [http://www.mywot.com/de/forum/8404-the-root-of-all-evil-looking-for-the-heid-ann-solution?comment=54456#comment-54456 Discussion]

====WoT Addon/Scorecard/Rating====
''These are features you would like to see added to enhance the WOT Add-on and rating related things.''

*Mass Rating Tool - allow address-bar selection of Trustworthness, Vendor Reliability etc via ../massrate&T=30&V=60&P=10 etc
*Mass Rating & Scorecard - allow single character selection from Category pull-down, eg '''G'''ood '''U'''seful etc
*Add a personal comment/note feature to the scorecard which is only visible to the writer
*Some sort of option to change the add-on symbol from the circle to waring shapes.
*Change where/how the icon is displayed/generated. e.g. status bar or systray. Reason: To save space especially on small netbooks
*Increase/Decrease the number of comment votes a user has based on their "ranking/level". Some spammers/scammers downvote acceptable comments, and if there are more of them than good voters then perfectly good comments are being downvoted. For example, if 20 spammers downvote all the good comments on _____.com, and there are only a few good voters, then although the site's reputation doesn't suffer, the appearance of comments does. So, maybe for each level earned, a vote should be gained (bronze = 1, silver = 2, gold = 3 etc.)
* A discreet yet distinctive separation between content and signature. - [http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/6793-adjusting-signature Discussion]
* Verified Owner - [http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/6676-suggestion-site-owner-comments Discussion]. This feature mark the owner of a website, after proceeding with its formal verification, marking the comments placed and preventing the raise of the category counters on its scorecard.
* Integrate WOT ratings with OpenDNS filters.
*Show number of raters, not only reliability on scorecard
*Allow to agree/disagree with other comments with the mass rating tool. The idea behind this is that currently all mass rating comments can be easily downrated by one person
*Make my own rating visible on the scorecard. Currently, when I open a scorecard, I do not see if I have rated and in which way.
*Make the difference between ratings and comments really flashy. Currently, most users don't understand the difference. e.g. with different icons or different colors
*Age comments: Ratings already age. Implement a similar thing for comments
*Unshorten urls like those from tinyurl and show the rating of the "true" site
*Limit the number of votes per day to [10/20/50/100/unlimited] depending on activity level. [http://www.mywot.com/de/forum/8404-the-root-of-all-evil-looking-for-the-heid-ann-solution?comment=54437#comment-54437 Discussion]
*When showing a warning about bad rating, don't load the page until the warning is dismissed.
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===Ideas that are liked===
''Ideas that have been approved by the community are moved here.''
====WOT Forum/Wiki/Homepage====
*Create versions of Wiki-Pages in other languages
*Add a "Request rating of my site" link/button to forum with
: a field for the url/domain
: a big fat reminder to read the wiki before requesting to rate.
: "has a privacy policy" checkbox
: "is a shop and has ToS" checkbox
: no "Please choose forum" dropdown
: Other useful advice(?)
*Reputation history - [http://www.mywot.com/forum/6491-reputation-history Discussion]

====WoT Addon/Scorecard/Rating====
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===Considered for implementation===
''Ideas that are considered for implementation by WoT staff are moved here.''
====WOT Forum/Wiki/Homepage====
====WoT Addon/Scorecard/Rating====
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===Discarded ideas===
''Ideas that didn't make it.''
====WOT Forum/Wiki/Homepage====
====WoT Addon/Scorecard/Rating====
*Increase the necessary "minimum reliability threshold" before a site goes truly green or red.
*Remove the agreement counters for comments. It still should be possible to agree or disagree, but the counters should be removed. Use the trustlevel for ratings instead. That way, when I click agree, the trust level could be taken into account and put as a length increase/decrease into the bar.
*Enforce rookie users to write a comment when rating.
*Add a possibility for shop owners to allow customers to vote/comment from the website without installing WoT. [http://www.mywot.com/de/forum/8507-feature-rating-and-reviewing-form-website See here for reference]

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===Implemented community ideas===
====WOT Forum/Wiki/Homepage====
*Make [[How To Ask For Rating]] sticky in forum (This and next idea were implemented in a new sticky thread)
*Make this [http://www.mywot.com/de/forum/8406-want-your-website-rated-read-this-first threads message] threads message sticky in the forum

Software scams

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* [http://www.mywot.com/forum/5113-authorized-software-resellers-aka-online-store Authorized Software Resellers aka Online Store]
* [http://www.mywot.com/forum/8855-eurosoft EuroSoft / World Software]
* [http://www.mywot.com/forum/6476-quality-oem-software Quality OEM Software]
:* [http://www.mywot.com/forum/12956-adobe-software Adobe Software]
:* [http://www.mywot.com/forum/12952-apple-discount-store Apple Discount Store]
* [http://www.mywot.com/forum/7741-oem-soft-sales OEM soft sales]
* [http://www.mywot.com/forum/8863-oem-soft-store OEM Soft Store]
* [http://www.mywot.com/forum/32060-soft-store-smartshop Soft Store SmartShop]
* [http://www.mywot.com/forum/16422-whirl-wind-software Whirl Wind Software]

* [http://www.mywot.com/forum/11768-pdf-writer-reader Join to download]

WOT Groups

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[[File:WOT_Groups-beta.png|300px|thumb|right|WOT Groups beta]]
01 April 2014

[https://www.mywot.com/forum/44100-hashtags?comment=246810#comment-246810 Announcement] made in the forum discussion: [https://www.mywot.com/forum/44100-hashtags Hashtags] by Donsorg
<blockquote>we are ready to introduce a new section of WOT called WOT Groups Beta through which people can communicate and coordinate the use of tags. Some of the tags are "promoted" to be the starting point of a "group page" under which we collect information, for example, about all linked tags, most tagged domain names, popularity and most active taggers. We have also implemented basic social features such as following people/tags as well as a simple chat discussion board.

In order to be able to contribute hashtags and to participate to the discussion, you need to have a WOT account and also specifically [https://beta.mywot.com/groups/join join WOT Groups Beta]. The group pages, however, will be visible to everyone.

Please note, that this new feature lives on beta.mywot.com</blockquote>

* About Web of Trust
: https://beta.mywot.com/aboutus
* Policies for Groups Beta
: https://beta.mywot.com/groups/terms
* FAQ
: https://beta.mywot.com/faq/groups

* WOT Group user profile
: https://beta.mywot.com/groups/profile
* WOT Group hashtag search
: https://beta.mywot.com/groups/g?query=#hashtag

Trojan Horse

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A Trojan Horse is a computer program that releases a malicious code hidden inside a harmless programming or data, so it can get control of your computer and do damage, such as to the file allocation table on your hard disk. [http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci213221,00.html] A Trojan Horse may also bog down your computer with needless files, which slows down your system, eventually resulting in your computer crashing. [http://www.ehow.com/about_5127889_trojan-horse-attack.html]

== Types of Trojan Horses ==

There are many different types of Trojan Horses, but a few of the more common ones include:

1. '''Hacker Control''': A type of Trojan Horse that is downloaded and controlled by the hacker to open [[Backdoor|Backdoors]] in your system and then the hacker has full and complete control of your computer, to use it for his or her needs.

2. '''Anti-Virus Virus''': A type of Trojan Horse that can spread to your Anti-Virus software and disable it to render it useless- or delete it altogether.

3. '''Privacy Infiltration / Data Sending''': A type of Trojan Horse that can hide in legit software programs and are used to steal your [[Personally Identifiable Information (PII)]] (such as email addresses, passwords, and credit card numbers), which can result in Identity Theft.

4. '''Denial of Service (DoS)''': A type of Trojan Horse that infiltrates into your system to deny the user the control of his or her own internet, along with any other applications involving the use of the internet. A DoS Trojan can also increase traffic on the victim's computer to the extent that it becomes so bogged down that it can no longer let anyone use the internet.

5. '''System Wipes''': A type of Trojan Horse that embeds itself into your system and when it is released it deletes everything on your system, including files, programs, and applications.

6. '''Remote Access Trojans (RATs)''': A type of Trojan Horse that are designed to give the hacker complete control over the victim's computer; the hacker can go through the files and access any [[Personally Identifiable Information (PII)|personal information]] about the user that may be stored in the files, such as credit card numbers, passwords, and financial documents. RATs are usually hidden in small and seemingly harmless downloaded games.

7. '''Annoyance''': This Trojan Horse does nothing except annoy (obviously) the user. Some ways it could do this include turning the text on the screen or web page upside down playing random sounds, or making mouse motions erratic. Most of the time this type of Trojan Horse doesn't harm the computer directly, but the trial of an inexperienced user trying to get rid of the Trojan could harm the computer's hard drive.

== Preventing a Trojan Horse Attack ==

The golden rule to protect your computer from any malicious software is to never download files or programs from an untrusted source. Whenever downloading files, always check the file extension (usually Trojan Horses end in an extension such as .exe, .vbs, .com, or .bat) If a file seems the least bit suspicious, always scan the file with your Anti-Virus software before opening it. This can be done for free at http://www.virustotal.com. But remember, even if an Anti-Virus or other program does not find anything wrong with a file, that does not necessarily mean that the file is safe. So good rules of thumb are never open a file from an untrusted source, never open a file with a suspicious extension, and if your gut says that the file isn't safe, don't download it; These rules may seem meticulous, but it is always better to be safe than sorry when dealing with dangerous computer threats.

== Recovering from a Trojan Horse Attack ==

If your computer has been attacked by a Trojan Horse follow these steps immediately:

1. '''Call IT Support if you have it''': Notify them of the situation

2. '''Disconnect from the internet''': In some cases intruders who sent the Trojan Horse may have access to personal information stored on your computer; if you disconnect your computer from the internet, it should stop this activity.

3. '''Back up any important files''': Copy or transfer important files onto a separate storage item (ie: CD, DVD, or flash drive); however it is important to note that these files should not be trusted--they may have become infected, so always scan them with an Anti-Virus program before reopening them on a different computer, to avoid another computer becoming infected.

4. '''Scan your machine''': Since your computer and/or operating system may be infected with a malicious program, it is safest to scan the machine from a live CD (or “rescue” CD) rather than a previously installed Anti-Virus program. Many Anti-Virus products provide this functionality. Another alternative is to use a web-based virus removal service, which some Anti-Virus software vendors offer. Another option is to use Microsoft’s web-based PC Protection Scan. The next best action is to install an Anti-Virus program from an uncontaminated source such as a CD-ROM. If you don’t have one, there are many to choose from, but all of them should provide the tools you need. After you install the software, complete a scan of your machine. The initial scan will hopefully identify the malicious program(s). Ideally, the Anti-Virus program will even offer to remove the malicious files from your computer; follow the advice or instructions you are given. Once you have removed the malicious program(s), you must scan your computer again to be sure that all the traces of the program are gone.

5. '''Reinstall your operating system''': If the previous step failed to clean your computer, the most effective option is to wipe or format the hard drive and reinstall the operating system. Although this corrective action will also result in the loss of all your programs and files, it is the only way to ensure your computer is free from [[backdoor|Backdoors]] and intruder modifications. Before conducting the reinstall, make a note of all your programs and settings so that you can return your computer to its original condition. It is also vital that you also reinstall your Anti-Virus software and apply any patches that may be available.

6. '''Restore your files''': If you have backed-up your files, scan them with an Anti-Virus before restoring them into your computer.

Source: [http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/trojan-recovery.pdf]

FAQ (Russian)

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Это коллекция ответов, которые отсутствуют на официальной странице [http://www.mywot.com/support/faq часто задаваемых вопросов].

==Заблуждения, неясности, пояснения==

====Заблуждение: Репутацией сайта очень легко манипулировать====
Когда кто-то впервые слышит о концепции WOT, то у них возникает первая мысль о том, что кто-то может очень легко заваливать систему спамом с тоннами бессмысленных оценок и комментариев, уничтожать репутацию своих конкурентов или иным образом манипулировать системой. На самом деле это не так. Мы разработали систему вычисления репутации таким образом, чтобы она была как можно более устойчивой к манипуляции.

====Оценки не являются в равной степени надежными====
Обычно в системах вычисления репутации каждая оценка является взвешенной в равной степени и репутация рассчитывается как среднее значение всех оценок, что делает их чрезвычайно уязвимыми для автоматизированных атак. Поэтому мы заблаговременно решили оценить вес каждой оценки по её заслугам с использованием принципов [http://ru.science.wikia.com/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B4 Байесовского вывода]. Система анализирует каждую оценку и поведение каждого пользователя в нескольких аспектах с целью определения их надежности.

Когда вы только начали использовать WOT, ваши оценки имеют очень маленький вес, но если при оценке сайтов ваше поведение будет согласовываться с общим поведением пользователей сообщества, то вес ваших оценок будет считаться с каждым разом всё более и более надежным. [http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%8F Меритократическая] основа системы делает её гораздо более устойчивой к злоупотреблению спамерами, потому что ботам будет гораздо труднее симулировать поведение человека в течение длительного периода времени.

Следует заметить, что надёжность оценок определяется с помощью статистического моделирования и не зависит от количества оценок и от того, насколько вы согласны с другими пользователями. Это также не связано с вашей оценкой активности и уровнем пользователя, что просто показывает вам, насколько активными вы были.

====Необычное поведение определяется автоматически====
В дополнение к взвешиванию оценок по разному в зависимости от статистического анализа поведения каждого пользователя, мы также отслеживаем подозрительные действия. Система способна игнорировать попытки манипуляции без вмешательства человека, и почти каждый тип необычного поведения может быть обнаружен. Оценки, оставленные пользователями, которые пытаются злоупотреблять системой будут проигнорированы.

====Но я несогласен с текущей репутацией!====
Репутация вычисляется на основе оценок пользователей и показывает, насколько они доверяют сайту. Если вы не согласны с репутацией, то, скорее всего, это не потому, что репутацией пытаются манипулировать или кто-то целенаправленно сговорился против сайта, а просто потому, что другие пользователи не согласны с вами, их опыт может отличаться от вашего. Это нормально и это иногда случается. Вы можете начать новую тему на форуме и обсудить репутацию этого сайта. Однако, если вы уверены, что имеет место быть необычное поведение, то, пожалуйста, сообщите об этой проблеме, используя эту [http://www.mywot.com/support/feedback/problem форму обратной связи].

====Заблуждение: Неквалифицированные пользователи не могут оценивать сайты====
Мы понимаем, что среднестатистический пользователь Сети Интернет не является специалистом по сетевой безопасности, и мы не ожидаем, что он должен идти и исследовать на профессиональном уровне все сайты подряд. У нас есть активная группа достаточно опытных участников, которые исследуют сайты и помогают остальным избежать угроз в Интернете. Мы ожидаем только одного — чтобы пользователи поделились своим опытом посещения сайтов, которые хорошо им известны. Однозначно, что пользователи уже достаточно квалифицированы, чтобы оценить знакомые им сайты. Способность передавать опыт от пользователя к пользователю — главная задача данного сервиса.

====Заблуждение: Кто-то должен стать первой жертвой, чтобы другие узнали об опасности====
Очевидно, что кто-то должен обнаружить угрозу, прежде чем предупредить других об этой этом, но это не значит, что этот кто-то должен стать жертвой или даже быть зарегистрированным пользователем WOT. Мы собираем информацию из разных тщательно отобранных источников дополнительной информации, которые исследуют сайты на наличие угроз безопасности, это помогает нам заблаговременно предупреждать пользователей о появляющихся угрозах.

==Оценки против комментариев==

===Влияют ли комментарии на репутацию?===
Оценки очень часто путают с комментариями, наверное, потому, что комментарии очень заметны в оценочной карте. Обратите внимание, что репутация вычисляется ''только'' из оценок. Комментарии носят чисто информационный характер и не оказывают влияния на репутацию.

===Влияет ли голосование за комментарии на репутацию?===
За комментарии можно голосовать, соглашаться и не соглашаться, нажимая на кнопки «согласен» / «не согласен». Голосование за комментарии только определяет порядок следования комментариев в оценочной карте, это голосование не влияет на репутацию сайта. Если репутация становится противоречивой, то голосование за комментарии отключается, чтобы предотвратить возможную войну между сторонниками и противниками сайта.

===Почему я не могу видеть, сколько раз оценили сайт?===
Количество оценок не скажет вам, насколько надежна репутация, и демонстрация этого на самом деле может даже ввести в заблуждение. 

'''Во-первых:''' было бы очень банально, если спамер оценит веб-сайт несколько раз и тем самым сделает репутацию таким образом, что она покажется надёжной. 

'''Во-вторых:''' сайт может получить 1,000 оценок, однако репутация для него все ещё может быть не вычислена, потому что система [[#.D0.9E.D1.86.D0.B5.D0.BD.D0.BA.D0.B8_.D0.BD.D0.B5_.D1.8F.D0.B2.D0.BB.D1.8F.D1.8E.D1.82.D1.81.D1.8F_.D0.B2_.D1.80.D0.B0.D0.B2.D0.BD.D0.BE.D0.B9_.D1.81.D1.82.D0.B5.D0.BF.D0.B5.D0.BD.D0.B8_.D0.BD.D0.B0.D0.B4.D0.B5.D0.B6.D0.BD.D1.8B.D0.BC.D0.B8 | не доверяет]] всей этой тысяче оценок и не считает их весомыми. А может быть 1,010, где есть также десять оценок, у которых может быть очень высокий вес, и эти оценки сформируют противоположную той тысяче репутацию. В этом случае, общее количество оценок (1,010) может только ввести всех в заблуждение. 

Вот почему WOT показывает индикатор уверенности (небольшие человеческие фигуры рядом с каждым компонентом оценки), а не количество оценок. Этот индикатор покажет вам, насколько надежна репутация сайта, и это зависит не столько от количества оставленных оценок, сколько от их надёжности.

===Почему комментарии не всегда совпадают с репутацией?===
Репутация вычисляется из оценок, а не из комментариев. Добавление комментариев при оценке не является обязательным. Оценок для сайта может быть в десятки, а то и в сотни раз больше чем комментариев. Допустим, у сайта превосходная репутация, и большинство довольных пользователей просто дают ему оценку без каких либо комментариев, а другие пользователи, несогласные с его репутацией, скорее всего будут склонны не только дать ему низкую оценку, но и оставить отрицательный комментарий. Вот почему это не редкость для комментариев, что они не всегда совпадают с репутацией.

===Я не хочу, чтобы другие пользователи видели мои оценки===

По умолчанию оценка видна только после того, как пользователь оставит комментарий к сайту. Если пользователь просто ставит оценку, но не оставляет комментарий, его оценка не будет видна остальным пользователям. Каждый пользователь, желающий выразить свое мнение в комментарии, имеет право скрыть свои оценки от посторонних глаз, для этого необходимо настроить [https://www.mywot.com/profile/edit параметры конфиденциальности] профиля, установив флажок в чекбокс «Не показывать мои оценки другим пользователям».

Следует заметить, что доступным для публичного просмотра является только основной компонент оценки — «Доверие». Оценки в компоненте «Детская безопасность» системой не разглашаются.

==Недобрые слухи==
WOT с каждым днем становится популярнее и успешнее помогает защищать людей от мошенничества, однако часто находятся те, кто на него жалуются и распространяют недобрые слухи. Чаще всего, это мошенники, чьему бизнесу WOT вредит, а также просто недовольные владельцы веб-сайтов.

===Дополнение для браузера — это шпионское или рекламное ПО===
По своей сути, для дополнения WOT необходимо запросить репутацию для каждого сайта, который вы посещаете. Существует также необходимость отслеживать ваши оценки, автоматически создавая для вас случайный анонимный идентификатор. Очевидно, что эта информация может использоваться для того, чтобы узнать, какие сайты вы посещаете. Пожалуй, это одна из причин, почему распространение слухов о WOT, что это [[Spyware_RU|шпионское ПО]] является самым любимым среди тех, кто пытается его дискредитировать.

WOT не содержит шпионских и [[Adware_RU|рекламных программ]], и мы делаем все возможное, чтобы уважать вашу конфиденциальность: 

* '''Открытый исходный код.''' <div style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px">Все дополнения WOT имеют открытый исходный код, это означает, что любой желающий может скачать [[Source code|исходный код]] и проверить, что это дополнение делает. Здесь нет никаких секретов, дополнение делает только то, что оно говорит. Варианты для Firefox проверяются редакторами Mozilla каждый раз, как только новые версии публикуются в официальной галерее дополнений. До настоящего времени, дополнение WOT было одобрено и рекомендуется для использования со следующими браузерами: Mozilla Firefox; Google Chrome; Apple Safari; Opera.</div>

* '''Без слежения.''' <div style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px">Дополнение посылает очень маленькое количество информации на сервер WOT. Когда вы заходите на сайт, дополнение посылает только имя хоста сайта (не всю ссылку URL) на сервер WOT для получения сведений о репутации и загрузки ваших оценок. С целью обновления всей этой информации, каждые тридцать минут, в течении сессии производится повторный запрос. Никаких иных запросов не делается. Во время передачи на сервер, имя хоста зашифровано с целью предотвращения перехвата. При поиске в Интернете, дополнение не отправляет ваши поисковые запросы на сервер WOT, запрашивается только информация о репутации для сайтов, появляющихся в результатах поиска, при условии, что она уже не кэшируется.</div>

* '''Сохранение данных.''' <div style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px">Все запросы, сделанные дополнением, записываются и временно сохраняются на сервере WOT. Эти записи не используются для отслеживания пользователей и никакая информация не разглашается третьей стороне. Журналы, содержащие данную информацию, хранятся временно, только чтобы создать статистику и проанализировать возможные случаи злоупотребления. Вся информация за исключением ваших оценок, записанная в журналах, будет удалена через месяц. Для получения дополнительной информации прочтите [http://www.mywot.com/privacy политику конфиденциальности].</div>

===Пользователи, оценивающие большое количество сайтов — спамеры===
Некоторые из наших наиболее активных пользователей добровольно жертвуют своим временем, исследуя мошенничество и проблемы безопасности в Интернете. В результате чего, такие пользователи могут в конечном итоге оценивать сотни и даже тысячи сайтов в день. Временами мы можем слышать много жалоб, что все эти пользователи — спамеры, боты, или даже, что им кто-то платит за оценку сайтов, преследуя какую-то гнусную цель. Иногда многие утверждают, что это просто невозможно для человека, чтобы оценивать такое большое количество сайтов, то есть если кто-то оценивает так много сайтов, то он всегда делает что-то плохое. Естественно, все это не правда.

Ежедневно, мошенниками создаются тысячи фишинговых и вредоносных веб-сайтов. В WOT есть люди, которые тратят свое время, чтобы предупредить других об этом. Эти люди в состоянии сделать это, потому что мы предоставляем им доступ к инструментам, которые позволяют им одновременно оставлять оценки и комментарии для большого количества сайтов. Таким образом, обнаружив сотни новых сайтов, которые были недавно созданы для обмана или распространения вредоносных программ, они способны оценить их всех за короткий промежуток времени.

Обратите внимание, что в отличие от [[#.D0.9E.D1.86.D0.B5.D0.BD.D0.BA.D0.B8_.D0.BF.D1.80.D0.BE.D1.82.D0.B8.D0.B2_.D0.BA.D0.BE.D0.BC.D0.BC.D0.B5.D0.BD.D1.82.D0.B0.D1.80.D0.B8.D0.B5.D0.B2|обычных оценок]], которые являются приватными, те оценки, которые оставлены с помощью [[Инструмент_массового_рейтинга|инструмента массового рейтинга]] являются более прозрачными, так как пользователь всегда вынужден оставлять комментарий, объясняющий его рейтинг для каждого веб-сайта. Такие комментарии также помечаются специальным значком, отличающим их от обычных комментариев. В дополнение к этим различиям, также важно отметить, что оценки, оставленные с помощью инструмента массового рейтинга не учитываются как [[#.D0.9E.D1.86.D0.B5.D0.BD.D0.BA.D0.B8_.D0.BD.D0.B5_.D1.8F.D0.B2.D0.BB.D1.8F.D1.8E.D1.82.D1.81.D1.8F_.D0.B2_.D1.80.D0.B0.D0.B2.D0.BD.D0.BE.D0.B9_.D1.81.D1.82.D0.B5.D0.BF.D0.B5.D0.BD.D0.B8_.D0.BD.D0.B0.D0.B4.D0.B5.D0.B6.D0.BD.D1.8B.D0.BC.D0.B8|нечто более надежное]], чем оценки, оставленные вручную и не имеют никакого более особого значения при вычислении репутации.

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See also: [[FAQ|English version]]

Identity Theft

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ID Theft is basically when someone takes control of your [[Personally Identifiable Information (PII)|PII]] (without your knowledge) and uses it to commit [[Internet Fraud|Fraud]]. The information that the thief steals can be used to obtain cash, merchandise, and/or services using the victim's name. Identity Theft can also provide a thief with false credentials for immigration or other applications.

== Types of Identity Theft ==

=== True Name Identity Theft ===

True Name Identity Theft means that the thief uses [[Personally Identifiable Information (PII)|personal info]] to open new accounts. The thief might open a new credit card account, establish cellphone services, or open a new checking account to obtain blank checks. The Internet has made it easier for an identity thief to use the information they've stolen because transactions can be made without any real verification of someone’s identity - all they really need nowadays are a series of correct numbers to complete the crime.

=== Account Takeover ===

Account takeover Identity Theft refers to the type of situation where an imposter uses the stolen [[Personally Identifiable Information (PII)|personal information]] to gain access to the person’s existing accounts. Often the identity thief will use the stolen identity to acquire even more credit products by changing your address so that you never see the credit card bills that the thief runs up. [http://www.identitytheftcreditfraud.com/]

==== Common Examples ====

A common way a thief gets your identity is through site promising to show you your credit report/score for free; no site has the ability to give your credit report for free (except under federal law when a company takes adverse action against you, such as denying your application for credit - but these sites will not do it). The following sites promising "free credit reports/scores" are all scams.

* hxxp://www.free3bureaucreditreport.com
* hxxp://www.freecreditreport.com
* hxxp://www.nationalcreditreport.com
* hxxp://www.freescore.com
* hxxp://www.freetriplescore.com
* hxxp://www.freetriplecreditscore.com

The only site that will lawfully give you your credit report is http://www.annualcreditreport.com/.

== Preventing Identity Theft ==

* Never give verification codes to anyone you do not trust completely; if you don't trust them with your credit card, don't give them your PIN.

* Never write down your important codes on paper, and never keep them in the same place. There are password management services that you can buy to securely encrypt your passwords onto your computer.

* Always look for the 'HTTPS' before entering in [[Personally Identifiable Information (PII)|personal information]] online. The 'HTTPS' means that your connection is probably encrypted, but you should also look for the encryption method. An example of a secure encryption is SSL {Secure Socket Layer}. This is probably the most common encryption used, but is also very secure.

* Never respond to emails asking for passwords or verification codes; any trusted and reputable website or company almost never asks for your information, they will contact you in some other way, these emails are almost always scams and should be deleted.

=== See Also ===

The following sites will help you understand more about the risks of Identity Theft and how to prevent it.

* Federal Trade Commission: http://www.consumer.gov/idtheft
* Fight Identity Theft: http://www.fightidentitytheft.com
* Identity Theft Prevention and Survival: http://www.identitytheft.org
* Identity Theft Resource Center: http://www.idtheftcenter.org
* Privacy Rights Clearinghouse: http://www.privacyrights.org/identity.htm

Scams

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These forum posts discuss known scams involved with [[Phishing]]; not to be confused with those referenced in the [[Spamvertised brands]] listing.

== Affiliate / MLM ==
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/13212-one-24 124 / One 24]
: ''The Gold Rush is on!''
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/6086-clickbank-affiliate-scams Clickbank affiliate scams]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/7786-ppc-affiliate-tracking-software PPC Affiliate Tracking Software]
: ie; ''prosper202''
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/6095-social-marketing-superstar-1-0 Social Marketing Superstar 1.0]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/16766-thatfreething-com That Free Thing]

== Apple / iTunes ==
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/22262-itunes-phishing iTunes Phishing]

== Auction / gambling ==
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/14024-penny-auction Penny Auction]

== Credit: offers / "free score" ==
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/7554-experian-com experian.com]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/4904-fine-print-and-credit-card-statements Fine print, credit card statements, and e-commerce] - ''informational''
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/4978-savingsace-com SavingsAce.com] - ''Adaptive Marketing''

<blockquote>note: In the US there is only one site that offers an annual free credit report authorised by federal law: https://www.annualcreditreport.com/ </blockquote>

== Domain name / registration ==
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/21380-domain-registration-renewal-scams Domain registration renewal scams]

== Education ==
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/4118-worthless-online-diploma Worthless Online Diploma]
: diploma mills

== Employment / Job ==
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/3911-green-card-scammers Green card scammers!]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/5541-the-difrawi-bell-phishing-scam-referral-thread The Difrawi & Bell phishing scam referral thread]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/28050-portuguese-job-sites Portuguese Job sites [fake]]

== Facebook scams ==
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/11032-cpalead-facebook-spam-domains CPALead Facebook spam domains]
: source article via [https://blog.webroot.com/2011/04/06/facebook-spamming-worm-wants-your-eyeballs/ Webroot Threat Blog] posted: April 6, 2011
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/11376-facebook-rollercoaster-scam Facebook Rollercoaster scam]
: source article via [https://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/facebook-rollercoaster-scam-now-in.html GFI Labs Blog] posted: April 14, 2011
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/13816-clickjacking-scam-spreading-on-facebook?new=1309752201#new clickjacking scam spreading on facebook]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/17608-facebook-login-phishing Facebook login phishing]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/18626-facebook-phishing Facebook phishing]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/18712-profile-viewer-pro-facebook-spam Profile Viewer PRO Facebook Spam]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/18826-walmart-gift-card-scam-facebook-scam Facebook gift card scam]
* [https://https://www.mywot.com/en/forum/19060--lost-weight-facebook-spam-campaign "Lost Weight" Facebook Scam]
: source article via [https://www.itsecuresite.com/seclabs/websense/lost-weight-spam-campaign-spreading-on-facebook-and-ibibo.html IT Secure Site] posted: January 4, 2012

== Home business ==
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/9009-get-rich-quick Get rich quick]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/9077-home-cash-flow-solutions Home Cash Flow Solutions]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/7334-fake-news-lead-to-work-at-home fake news lead to work at home]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/7627-work-from-home-scams Work from Home scams]

== Financial / Loan ==
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/4760-hyip-high-yield-investment-program HYIP - high-yield investment program]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/9488-lowermybills-com LowerMyBills.com]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/7929-moneymutual-com MoneyMutual.com]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/7628-ripoff-loan-companies Ripoff loan companies]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/9654-ameridebtrelief AmeriDebtRelief]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/9666-loan-modification Loan Modification]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/10282-penny-stock-pickers Penny Stock Pickers]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/10664-binary-options Binary Options]

== Game ==
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/5959-gold-and-powerlevelling-services-phish-scams Gold and powerlevelling services]
: World of Warcraft (WoW) and others

== Insurance / Quotes ==
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/23640-all-web-leads-inc-insurance-spam All Web Leads, Inc. Insurance spam]

== Intellectual Property / Patent / Trademark ==
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/29838-disguising-as-patent-trademark-offices Disguising as patent & trademark offices]

== Pharmacy ==
* Pharmacy scams are listed in the Spamvertised brands section:
: [[Pharmacy / Herbal Remedies]]

== Promotions ==
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/9982-gift-programs-promotions-offers-surveys-rewards-coupons Gift Programs: promotions | offers | surveys | rewards | coupons]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/5313-ringtone-quiz-mobile-subscription-scams Ringtone quiz mobile subscription scams]

== Registry cleaner / PC "speedup" ==
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/3832-verycleanpc-com CyberDefender aka: MyCleanPC]
:* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/8713-maxmyspeed-com MaxMySpeed.com]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/5672-those-internet-bogus-frauds-at-finally-fast-com-are-advertising-again Those Internet Bogus Frauds at Finally Fast.com]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/13854-speedingupmypc-com-more-snake-oil-software speedingupmypc.com-More "snake oil" software]

== Remote PC Support / PC Tech Support ==
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/27506-ftc-cracks-down-on-fake-tech-support-websites FTC Cracks Down on Fake Tech Support Websites]

== Rogueware ==
[https://encrypted.google.com/#hl=en&q=rogueware&tbs=dfn:1 definition (modified)]
:''Software designed to entice you to pay for fake or substandard security-related software, by falsely stating that your computer has multiple detections and/or infections.''
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/11030-pcsafedoctor PCSafeDoctor]

==Security==
===Fake Trust Seals===
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/5476-fake-secure-seals Fake Secure Seals]

== Software scams ==
* Software scams are combined with Spamvertised brands in same section:
: [[Software_scams]]

=== Adware ===
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/30664-adware-ibryte-optimum-installer Adware: iBryte Optimum Installer]

== SMS / Mobile / Social ==
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/18624-buy-facebook-twitter-likes-followers Buy, Sell, Promote, Generate or Exchange Facebook Likes & Twitter Followers etc]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/22406-sms-text-promotions-gift-cards-coupons-other-scams SMS text:: promotions / gift cards / coupons / other scams]
* [https://www.mywot.com/search/node/CPAlead CPAlead]
: note, above link is a forum search results
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/9068-secret-game-cheats Secret Game Cheats]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/8057-internetguard-fake-antivirus-protection InternetGUARD Fake antivirus protection]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/9718-subscription-scams Subscription scams]
: [https://www.mywot.com/forum/17608-facebook-login-phishing Fake Facebook login]
: Fake Twitter login
:: ex: ''StalkTrak App''
: Fake Western Union
: [https://www.mywot.com/forum/17060-fake-yahoo-domain Fake Yahoo domains]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/12158-wixawin-com wixawin.com]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/12446-your-pedigree Your Pedigree]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/21228-six-flags-ticket-scam Six Flags Tickets - Survey Scam]

=== Mobile invasion / spying ===

* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/29172-mspy mSpy]

== Store / Shopping ==
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/28504-ahh-bra AHH bra]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/31870-duty-free-alcohol-and-tobacco Duty Free Alcohol and Tobacco]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/15814-ebook-pc-mobile eBook: PC / Mobile]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/7570-electronics-scam-sites Electronics scam sites]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/12024-name-brand-shoes-handbag-sunglasses-clothin-jewelry-etc Name brand: shoes / handbag / sunglasses / clothing / jewelry / etc.]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/7661--ugg-boots-scams Ugg boots scams]

== Ticket ==
Online ticket sales; unauthorized and/or bogus
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/22932-london-2012-ticket-scam London 2012 Ticket Scam] (2012 Olympics)

== URL shortening ==
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/20160-greate-short-urls Greate short URLs]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/24634-url-redirect-cloaking-services URL redirect / cloaking services]

== Web, PC, Satellite, P2P TV ==
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/9804-neopctv-net-web-tv-scam neopctv.net — web TV scam]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/25982-goooooooglee-com-free-tv-on-your-pc-scam-site goooooooglee.com - free TV on your PC scam site]
* [https://www.mywot.com/forum/26104-free-pay-p2p-satellite-web-tv Free, Pay, P2P, Satellite, Web TV]

Scorecard

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[[File:wot_security_scorecard.png|300px|thumb|right|Basic WOT Security Scorecard with no ratings]]
The scorecard contains everything you need to know about a website, domain name, or IP.

== Scorecard colors ==
To help bridge across language barriers, colors are used for immediate identification of the overall ''Trustworthiness'' (reputation) of a website. The color range is:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px;"
|-
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Reputation
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; width: 12em;" | Color and symbol
! style="padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" | Description
|-
| colspan="3" style="border-bottom: 1px solid gray" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Excellent
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | [[File:16_excellent.png]] = dark green
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | This site has an excellent reputation and the community considers it a safe and pleasant experience.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Good
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | [[File:16_good.png]] = light green
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | This site has a good reputation. Sites in this category may contain adult content, mass advertising, or other advertising/adult content.
|-
| colspan="3" style="border-bottom: 1px solid lightgray" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Unsatisfactory
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | [[File:16_unsatisfactory.png]] = yellow
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Cautionary advisory, unsatisfactory or mixed ratings.
|-
| colspan="3" style="border-bottom: 1px solid lightgray" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Poor
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | [[File:16_poor.png]] = orange
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | This site has a poor reputation. Use sites in this category with caution. Avoid downloading untrusted files.
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Very poor
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | [[File:16_verypoor.png]] = red
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | This site has a very poor reputation. Unless you trust the site owner, don't click links or enter personal or financial information. The add-on will bring up the [[warning screen]], or [[blocking screen]], when [[settings]] are at their default values.
|-
| colspan="3" style="border-bottom: 1px solid lightgray" |
|-
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | Unrated
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | [[File:16_unrated.png]] = grey
| style="padding-left: 5px;" | There are not enough ratings to compute a reputation for this website, as referenced by the [[Media:Wot_security_scorecard.png|example scorecard]] provided. <blockquote>''Note'': it's possible for the confidence level to drop below a certain minimum threshold which causes the reputation to go back to an [[Unrated_scorecard|unrated]] state.</blockquote>
|}

Though we see colors to make our testimonial easier, WOT translates these colors to numbers and with using statistical analysis to compute the individual reputation values that, when combined, generate the website's overall Trustworthiness.

== Scorecard components ==

The scorecard consists of several components that dynamically retrieves the information presented to you. A quick list of these components are as follows:
# [[#Thumbnail|Thumbnail]]
# [[#Help view|Help view]]
# [[#Site name|Site name]]
# [[#Popularity|Popularity ]]
# [[#Rank|Rank]]
# [[#Owner|Owner]]
# [[#Server location|Server location]]
# [[#Statistics|Statistics ]]
# [[#Wiki|Wiki]]
# [[#Description|Description]]
# [[#Tags|Tags]]
# [[#Reputation rating|Reputation rating:]]
# [[#The Rating Categories|The Rating Categories:]]
#* [[#Trustworthiness|Trustworthiness]]
#* [[#Child Safety|Child safety]]
# [[#Comments|Comments:]]
#* Add / Request
#* Comment categories
#* Comment listing
# [[#Share with a friend|Share with a friend]]
 
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===Thumbnail===
[[File:wot_scorecard_thumbnail_dual-focus.png|thumb|right|Scorecard thumbnail with dual focus]]
The thumbnail is a captured image of the index page of a website. The purpose is to help visually identify the site in revue.

The image may be clear or it may be blurred depending upon the rating level of the Child Safety indicator. When there are poor to very poor ratings for child safety, the image is blurred to prevent viewing of possible pornographic material. The provided image displays both clear and blurred areas for example.
<blockquote>''note'': some images may not be blurred even though Child Safety ratings are poor, this is because the image was [http://www.mywot.com/forum/10972-please-report-new-scorecard-bugs-here-only?comment=92008#comment-92008 manually approved] by WOT Staff</blockquote>

This image is updated every 60 days, although for less popular sites it might take longer for the image to be updated. If you've changed your site design and notice a conflict, don't worry WOT will catch up in due time.

===Help view===
[[File:wot_scorecard_help-view_EN.png|300|thumb|right|Scorecard Help view]]
Clicking on Help View, located at the upper right corner of the Scorecard, brings up an image offering some explanation to various areas of interest such as:
* Popularity
* Server location
* Compete.com statistics
* Description
* Tags
The help view also offers hints to reputation ratings as well as mentioning about the confidence indicators.
 

===Site name===
Self-explanatory, the Site Name is the domain name or IP address of the website being rated. This also includes sub domains, for example: ''subdomain.example.com''.

The Scorecard URL generally incorporates the site name, but in certain cases it does not.
[http://www.mywot.com/forum/1935-twitter-profiles-get-ratings-and-scorecard Twitter profiles may be rated in WOT] and are given special names for URLs, while the site name remains for scorecard display. For example: ''twitter.com/Web_of_Trust'' scorecard's URL is:
http://www.mywot.com/scorecard/_p_k5swex3pmzpvi4tvon2a.twitter.com.
 

===Popularity===
[[File:wot_scorecard_indicator.png|125px|thumb|right|popularity indicator]]
Popularity is often confused with a site's overall monthly hit rate.

This is not so, the popularity icons, the "little people" that are displayed next to the Site Name are an indication of how many WOT users have visited the website.
 

===Rank===
A scorecard ranking is measured by the popularity of a website as visited by WOT users.
Many sites will have an N/A (not applicable) as their rank, if your site may fall into this ranking, don't worry about it, you're part of the majority. This is merely a demographic display and an entertaining one as well. You can view the top ten highest ranked websites by visiting the [http://www.mywot.com/community Community page] or to see more, simply open up an empty scorecard URL: http://www.mywot.com/scorecard. The ranking of websites is updated every 60 days. As of this writing, Mail.ru is ranked at number one.
 

===Owner===
The owner information is provided with a whois ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS Wikipedia]) courtesy link. Currently, the service of choice is with [http://whois.domaintools.com/ whois.domaintools.com].
 

===Server location===
[[File:wot_scorecard_flag.png|130px|thumb|right|Server location]]
For easy visual reference, mini country flags are displayed along with the two letter [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code country code] to give you an idea of the location of the web server that the website is hosted on. The example image shows [http://www.mywot.com/scorecard/mywot.com mywot.com] which is hosted in Finland and [http://www.mywot.com/scorecard/google.com google.com] which is hosted in the United States.

Domains sitting on multiple IP's will display the country image when all IP's share the same country as location. When multiple IP's are referenced and are located in more than one country, the ''Global'' icon is used. [[File:Flag_global.png]] [http://www.mywot.com/forum/14732-what-means-on-the-scorecard-of-avast-com-server-location-global?comment=99514#comment-99514 Example]
 

===Statistics===
Website statistical information such as monthly visitors and graphs are provided by [http://siteanalytics.compete.com/mywot.com/ compete.com] free of charge. There is much information available by this company however, registration is required to access it.
 

===Wiki===
The wiki links to [http://www.aboutus.org/ aboutus.org] that dynamically creates pages for websites from publicly accessible information such as meta tags and whois information. Once built, the pages – like any wiki – are available to be edited by the site owner, its representatives, or anyone who visits the site.
 

===Description===
The scorecard obtains the website's description dynamically through the information supplied by the [http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_meta.asp meta tag] from within the site's index page. In the event that no description meta tag exists, nothing is displayed. This information is updated every 60 days.

An example of a description meta tag:
<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><meta name="description" content="WOT is a Free Internet Security addon for Firefox and IE that warns you about online scams and risky websites that try to deliver malware or send spam." /> </pre>

To manually edit a site's description that displays on the site's scorecard, the site owner must be a registered user where they can submit the site into their user profile via the ''My Sites'' section. The site then requires verification, proving that you have root access (owner / administrator), after which the description may be changed, overriding the current META tag information.
 

===Tags===
Just like ''Description'', tags are dynamically retrieved information through the value supplied to the [http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_meta.asp meta tag keywords]. This information is also updated every 60 days.

An example of a keyword meta tag:
<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><meta name="keywords" content="spam, online scams, malware, ie addon, firefox addon, online security, free internet security, web of trust, mywot, wot" /> </pre>
 

===Reputation rating===
[[File:wot_scorecard_reputation_unrated.png|290px|thumb|right|Reputation rating section, unrated example]]
Herein lies the heart of WOT where website reputations are entered and the website is deemed to be ''safe'' or trusted, ''cautionary'', ''unsafe'' or not trustful.

The entries made in this section should be done so in an unbiased way, offering genuinely honest ratings. Ratings are cast by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_ballot secret ballot] assuring your anonymity and maintaining your privacy. Of course, if you decide to make a publicly viewable comment, then people may associate the chosen comment category (green or red) as to ''how'' you rated.

Those who try to abuse the rating system eventually get "caught" because their selected ratings differ from the majority of the votes cast; remember WOT is a [http://www.mywot.com/en/blog/anonymity-vs-democracy meritocracy]. For more information about how reputational trust is computed, please refer to this blog post on [http://www.mywot.com/en/blog/confidence Confidence].

The Reputation Rating section of the website scorecard consists of four rating categories, each consisting of four elements.

====The Rating Elements====
# The ''WOT Symbol'' [[File:16_excellent.png]] displays the current reputation from the aggregated result of all prior ratings. For more information, please refer to the website support section for [http://www.mywot.com/en/support/symbols WOT symbols]
# The ''Rating Description'' simply identifies the category of the website's reputation that you are rating. This is a text label that is translated into the language that you have your preferences set to.
# The ''Rating Bar'' [[File:wot_scorecard_rating_bar.png]] is how you transfer your experiences with, or opinions of, the website you are rating into the WOT reputation system. A small white bullet   •   appears when you choose to edit and hover your mouse over any of the rating bars. If you have previously rated the site, the bullet is positioned at your last value upon viewing the scorecard. The rating bar consists of five colorized sections, each represents a group of values that determine the score for the category being rated. These five sections are textually labeled as (from left to right):
#* Very Poor
#* Poor
#* Unsatisfactory
#* Good
#* Excellent
# The ''Confidence Indicator'' [[File:Wot_scorecard_indicator.png]] Confidence tells you how reliable the rating system considers the reputation. The more small human figures there are next to the reputation, the more reliable it's considered. The add-on uses confidence values as thresholds for warnings. If the confidence is not high enough, you won't see a warning even if the reputation is poor. Also, if the confidence is very low, the site appears as [[Unrated_scorecard|unrated]] until the confidence reaches the minimum threshold.
#: See also:
#: [[API#Reputation_and_confidence|API::Reputation and confidence]]
#: [[Scorecard#Low_confidence_banner|Low confidence banner]]
 

===The Rating Categories===
— officially explained on the [http://www.mywot.com/en/support/ratings support section] of the website and consist of:
====Trustworthiness====
Can you trust this site? Would you share it with family or friends? Have you had a pleasant experience? Is it worth returning to? If you can answer "yes" to all of these questions, then it is worth rating as Excellent. If you answer "no" to one of these questions, then it is worth rating Good. The lower amount of "yes" answers to these questions, the lower the rating becomes.

====Child Safety====
Is the website safe for young children? Does it consist of adult related material such as a political forum where participants are engaged in swearing? Is it a gaming site whose age group is for 15 year olds or older? What about a musician's site where the music (and lyrics) are recommended for mature audiences? Does the site contain pornographic material? Base your ratings for this category by asking yourself, "Would I allow my child to access this website?"

 

===Comments===
[[File:Wot_scorecard_comment_section.png|300px|thumb|right|Scorecard comment section for site with no comments]]
Comments provide more information, but '''do not affect ratings'''.

Currently a maximum of three (3) comments, using different comment categories, are allowed per scorecard per user, including comments made via the [[mass rating tool|mass rating tool]].

Comments were not originally intended to exist and were included based upon user feedback in the early stages of WOT testing. For more detailed commentary concerning comments, please refer to this blog post: [http://www.mywot.com/en/blog/against-textual-comments Against textual comments].

====Request a comment====
[[File:Wot_scorecard_comment_request.png|200px|thumb|right|Request a comment]]
''note:'' this option is available only for website owners

Request a comment is displayed on the left side of the Scorecard at the top of the Comment section. Its purpose is simply to request other members of the WOT Community to offer a comment for the website. Comment requests are tagged and posted on the [http://www.mywot.com/community Community] page of WOT's main website. Clicking this option toggles your request, meaning if you click once, you're requesting a comment, click again and you remove that request. If you decide to add a comment yourself, this option disappears.

====Add a comment====
[[File:Wot_scorecard_comment_add_opened.png|300px|thumb|right|Add a comment]]
Add a comment is displayed on the left side of the Scorecard at the top of the Comment section.
Clicking it toggles the opening or closing of the Add Comment subsection.

When entering a comment for a website you are presented with two elements both of which are required to save your comment. These are the comment category and the comment text.

The comment category is a drop-down menu where you decide which classification you would like your comment associated with. The current selections available are:
<blockquote>
[[File:Bullet_green.png]] Good site 
[[File:Bullet_green.png]] Useful, informative 
[[File:Bullet_green.png]] Entertaining 
[[File:Bullet_green.png]] Good customer experience 
[[File:Bullet_green.png]] Child friendly 
[[File:Bullet_red.png]] Spam 
[[File:Bullet_red.png]] Annoying ads or popups 
[[File:Bullet_red.png]] Bad customer experience 
[[File:Bullet_red.png]] Phishing or other scams 
[[File:Bullet_red.png]] Malicious content, viruses 
[[File:Bullet_red.png]] Browser exploit 
[[File:Bullet_red.png]] Spyware or adware 
[[File:Bullet_red.png]] Adult content 
[[File:Bullet_red.png]] Hateful or questionable content 
[[File:Bullet_red.png]] Ethical issues 
[[File:Bullet_grey.png]] Useless 
[[File:Bullet_grey.png]] Other 
</blockquote>

'''When writing your comments, please consider the following:'''
* Be objective and truthful. Useful comments include not only whether you liked or disliked a site, service or product, but also why.
* Differentiate between the technical safety of the site and the content
* Support your assertions or statements
* Try to keep it short, but focused
: [http://www.mywot.com/blog/167-comments-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly Comments – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly]
* Tue 18 Feb 2014
: Introducing the incorporation of [[hashtags]] in comments

====Comment listing====
As comments are made they appear in list form displayed as single line entries. Clicking on the comment opens its entirety. As the author of the comment, you have the options of editing or deleting your comment.

==Locked scorecards==
Scorecards are a component of the WOT website and may be locked when certain abuse is detected (through the website). When a scorecard is locked, you'll see a notification stating:
{| style="width: 98%"
|- valign="top"
|''WOT has detected unusual behavior on the scorecard and new ratings have been disabled.''
|
[[File:Scorecard_lock_notification.png]]
|}

Though rating via the scorecard has been disabled, comments are allowed unless otherwise notified.
You may still rate domains having a locked scorecard through the add-on by using the toolbar pop-up [[Rating_window|rating window]].

==Low confidence banner==
Scorecards may display a low confidence banner. You'll see a notification stating:
{| style="width: 98%"
|- valign="top"
|"This site's rating has low confidence. Please leave your rating."
This banner will display when the [[Trustworthiness|trustworthiness]] rating category shows a rating, but the rating system does not have enough confidence or has no confidence in the [[Trustworthiness|trustworthiness]] rating category, as shown by the confidence indicator next to the [[Trustworthiness|trustworthiness]] category.
|}

WordPress

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This guide is just the basics to new, non-technical WordPress users. For more advanced technical users, follow the guide on WordPress (Hardening WordPress) - http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress.

==Keep Up to Date==

The first rule is quite simple, keep WordPress up to date, all your plug-ins, and all your themes up to date. Each update is usually because a bug has been found and corrected, new vulnerabilities being found and corrected, or just the functionality has been improved. It is important that you keep all aspects of your WordPress site up to date. The most common cause of your site being exploited is due to some part being outdated.

==Remove unused features==

If you have several themes installed, these can still be exploited whether active or not. Once you have settled on a theme for your site, remove any extra themes from your server.

This is also true for plugins for your WordPress site, even inactive plugins can still be exploited, so any plugins you no longer use, delete these files from your server.

==Reduce Spam==
Through your settings in the dashboard it is advised that you disallow the usage of PingBacks as these can be abused by spammers. Also make sure all comments need admin approval before being displayed on the site. There is an option that will allow a user that has 1 approved comment then be allowed to make other comments without prior approval, switch this off, as it is better just to approve each comment as they are made.

==Recommended Plugins==

*'''Askimet Plugin''' - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/
*:Comments are checked against the Askimet web service to see if the comments look like spam. Any spam comments are moved to a spam folder for you to review at a later date. Very good accuracy rate.

*'''Stop Spammers Registration Plugin''' - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/
*:Any email address that is being used to register on your site is automatically checked against the Stop Forum Spam database. If a match is found they cannot register with your site.

*'''Project Honey Pot Spam Trap''' - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/project-honey-pot-spam-trap/
*:Invisible links are scattered throughout your blog that only Bots can see. Their IP addresses will be tagged and this info will be sent back to ProjectHoneyPot.org

*'''Secure WordPress''' - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/secure-wordpress/
*:Registered users can have a lot of access to useful information that will help them if they decide to hack your site. This plugin will remove some of that information (as well as doing some other minor tweaks) such as removing update notices to non-admins, removes the WordPress version number, error-information on login page, etc.

*'''Login Lockdown''' - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/login-lockdown/
*:Every failed log-in attempt is logged (IP Address and Timestamp). If a certain amount of log-in attempts are failed within a short time period then the log-in function is disabled for one hour (default setting) for the IP range.

*'''WordPress Firewall 2 ''' - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-firewall-2/
*:This has been updated due to bug fixes on WordPress Firewall. Scans every request made on your site and blocks suspicious requests and notifies the blog admin of any reported attack on the site. Very handy for reducing SQL attacks against a WordPress site as well as many other useful security features.

*'''Lockdown WP Admin''' - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lockdown-wp-admin/
*:Prevent access to WP Admin area by renaming the yourdomain.com/wp-admin/ to yourdomain.com/anythingyoulike/, this is a very handy plugin which hides your wp-admin login area preventing malicious users from trying to access your site through brute force attacks.

URL shortening services

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On May 24, 2011, WOT began supporting URL shorteners. Currently (09/28/2012) supported are:

* 4sq.com
* abcn.ws
* aol.it
* apne.ws
* bbc.in
* bit.ly
* bitly.com
* bzfd.it
* clck.ru
* cs.pn
* d3w.io
* dlvr.it
* eca.sh
* engt.co
* es.pn
* exm.nr
* f.ast.ly
* fa.by
* flpbd.it
* gd.is
* goo.gl
* gu.com
* ht.ly
* huff.to
* ind.pn
* is.gd
* j.mp
* lat.ms
* lnkd.in
* migre.me
* n.pr
* nblo.gs
* nyr.kr
* nyti.ms
* on.cnn.com
* on.mash.to
* on.msnbc.com
* ow.ly
* pep.si
* ping.fm
* politi.co
* post.ly
* rww.to
* su.pr
* t.co
* tcrn.ch
* tgr.ph
* thkpr.gs
* tiny.ly
* tinyurl.com
* tl.gd
* tldr.us
* tr.im
* usat.me
* wapo.st
* wp.me
* x.co
* yhoo.it

Add to this list if a new URL shortening service is added.

Rating reliability

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Many times people associate a user level, as represented by their [[Activity scores|activity score]], with a user's reputation, also known as their ''rating reliability''.

The rating reliability is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_hypothesis_testing computed estimate] based upon demonstrated talent and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ability ability], aka: [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/merit merit].

Basically, the system analyzes each user's rating behavior from several aspects in order to determine their reliability. When you start using WOT, your ratings have little [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight_function weight], but if you keep rating sites consistently, your ratings will be considered more reliable over time, re: [[FAQ#Ratings aren't equally reliable|ratings aren't equally reliable]].

For a simple explanation, read the blog post: [http://www.mywot.com/en/blog/differing-opinions Differing opinions] paying attention to ''Personal reputation''.

* I can see my activity score but where is my rating reliability score?
<blockquote>The reliability estimates aren't public to make gaming the system more difficult and to encourage everyone to rate honestly. Also, even though the estimates are automated and perfectly objective, I'm sure some users would take them personally and publishing them would create all kinds of unwanted friction in the community. I don't think anyone wants that.
 
- Sami ''18 January, 2010'' [http://www.mywot.com/forum/5322-an-individuals-rating-rookie-bronze-silver-gold-platnium?comment=26320#comment-26320 forum entry]</blockquote>

Some curious facts about rating reliability: [http://www.mywot.com/forum/21548-wot-is-a-dictatorship?comment=133164#comment-133164 cite].
* Most users whose ratings are considered highly reliable are not very active. You won't meet them at the forum and they don't rate unusually many sites.
* Since reliability estimates are not revealed to anyone, trying to game the system becomes more difficult. Most trusted users have no idea their ratings are more trusted than someone else's. If you don't know you have power, you also have no incentive to abuse it.
* Reliability estimates are not binary values that are either on or off. They are composed of several components, which are all combined in to a single value from 0-100 separately for each rating component. This means that your child safety rating may have a different weight than the ratings in other components, for example.

Tasks

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There is plenty to do on the WOT Wiki.

*Make some wanted pages
*:Wanted pages can be found by clicking "special pages" in the toolbox menu, then selecting "wanted pages"
*Customize the Wiki look

Parental Controls

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Parental Controls are a type of software that filters pre-selected categories of websites so that children cannot view the selected material.

== Noteworthy Parental Control Software ==

* Cyber Patrol: http://www.cyberpatrol.com
* CYBERsitter: https://www.cybersitter.com
* Kidzui Browser: http://www.kidzui.com
* K9 Web Protection: http://www1.k9webprotection.com
* Norton Online Family: https://onlinefamily.norton.com
* Parental Control Bar: http://www.parentalcontrolbar.org

Computer Virus

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A computer virus is a item that can infect your computer and delete essential files or programs. Some viruses can be a hoax or joke, others can be vital to your computer's system. The differences between the other malicious things on the Internet (for example a [[Trojan Horse]]), is that viruses can clone themselves to make them harder to get rid of. Some viruses can bundle multiple malicious files with them.

== Types ==

===Trojan Horse===
''Main Article: [[Trojan Horse]]''

A Virus that installs secretly to allow a [[backdoor]] to your computer. Thus, it could now install [[Botnets]], [[Malware]], [[Adware]], [[Keylogger|Keyloggers]], etc. Computers are usually infected by downloading it as a bundle.

===Adware===
''Main Article: [[Adware]]''

A virus that plays, or shows unwanted ads, like [[Popups|popups]]. It typically slows down your computer. Some [[Adware]] display ads that have links to [[Malware]].

===Spyware===
''Main Article: [[Spyware]]''

A term used to describe software that performs certain behaviors without appropriately obtaining your consent first, such as advertising, [[Personally Identifiable Information (PII)|PII]] harvesting and changing the configuration of your computer.

====Keyloggers====
''Main article: [[Keylogger]]''

Programs that record all of your keystrokes, and sometimes mouse movements and images of your screen. This is obviously bad, since they record your financial information, passwords, and the like.

==Avoiding getting infected==
Have a regular scan of your computer with an anti-badware product [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_antivirus_software like these products.]

You might also want to see [http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/1579-what-antivirus-do-you-have this topic] on what the WOT community has to say.

As for anti-adware, [http://www.lavasoft.com/ Lavasoft Ad-Aware] is a good choice. Also, [http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html Spybot Search and Destroy] is notable.

====The HOSTS file====
You can also block harmful websites too, using the HOSTS file, located at C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

Example: typing something like "127.0.0.1" or "website.com" would result in "website.com" always redirecting to "127.0.0.1" (localhost).

Be sure to not to save your HOSTS file using "Save As", because it won't work if the extension is .txt

==See also==

[[Online_tools|Online Tools]]

Rating websites (Russian)

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Каждый пользователь может оценивать веб-сайты, используя [[Оценочное окно и контекстное меню|оценочное окно]] в дополнении для веб-браузера или прямо в [[Оценочная карта|оценочной карте]]. Каждый сайт имеет свою оценочную карту, определяющую его индивидуальную среду в системе, и соответственно, каждая оценочная карта отражает индивидуальную репутацию и набор определённых комментариев в определённых доступных категориях (если и то, и другое имеется, конечно) для определённого веб-сайта. Если веб-сайт не имеет достаточного количества рейтингов или не имеет рейтингов вообще и система не может вычислить репутацию, то у этого веб-сайта отсутствует какая либо репутация и у оценочной карты будет серый цвет. Не обязательно выставлять рейтинг во всех четырёх категориях, Вы можете оставить низкий рейтинг, например, только для безопасности детей, если Вы знаете, что сайт содержит материалы, которые не подходят для просмотра детьми и оставить остальное неоцененным. Для того, чтобы оценить каждый объект, подлежащий оценке в системе WOT существует один единственный метод, и во всех случаях (даже при существенной разнице между типами объектов для оценки) этот метод никогда и ничем не отличается. Под объектами для оценки можно подразумевать не только сами веб-сайты, но также их [http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD субдомены] и [http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP-%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81 IP-адреса].

==Как оценить веб-сайт или IP-адрес==
Самый простой способ — это открыть всплывающее [[Оценочное окно и контекстное меню|оценочное окно]] для оценки веб-сайтов, используя дополнение для браузера, непосредственно на той вкладке или в том окне, где открыт этот сайт или IP-адрес и выставить тот рейтинг, который Вы считаете нужным, в соответствии с Вашим опытом посещения этого сайта или IP-адреса. Просто нажмите на значок рейтинга WOT в панели инструментов Вашего браузера для того, чтобы выставить рейтинг. Вы также можете открыть оценочную карту для этого веб-сайта или IP-адреса для того, чтобы также оставить комментарий или просмотреть существующие комментарии (если имеются), там же в центре оценочной карты имеется аналогичный элемент, предназначенный для выставления рейтингов во всех четырёх категориях, оставьте свой рейтинг и нажмите кнопку для сохранения.

==Как оценить субдомен==
Вы можете оценивать их точно таким же путем, как веб-сайты и IP-адреса. 

Субдомены часто используются для бесплатного хостинга и сайтов социальных сетей. Сообщество WOT может оценивать субдомены точно так же, как участники оценивают другие домены. Если у WOT недостаточно данных для определенного субдомена, субдомен наследует репутацию родительского домена. Когда система решит, что собрано достаточно данных для вычисления репутации отдельного субдомена, WOT будет использовать эту репутацию.

Аналогично этому, репутация каждого субдомена используется для определения репутации родительского домена. Если домен имеет множество не заслуживающих доверия субдоменов, его репутация страдает, и, следовательно, репутация любого нового субдомена также пострадает. Мы выбрали именно эту логику для системы WOT, поскольку она соответствует модели доверия в реальной жизни.

==Важные аспекты==
Аспекты, которые следует учитывать при оценке и комментировании: 

Так как рейтинги и комментарии оставляют обычные люди из разных стран мира, то не исключены случаи возникновения конфликтных ситуаций, вызванных противоречивыми точками зрения, и конечно, некоторые из этих точек зрения, скорее всего, не всегда будут совпадать с Вашими. Наверное будет очень ценным запомнить, что широкомасштабный характер сообщества WOT должен рассматриваться в таком контексте, что пользовательские рейтинги и комментарии всегда будут зависеть от их социально-культурных традиций. Например, вряд ли можно ожидать, что представители христианской конфессии будут выставлять хорошие рейтинги и писать положительные комментарии веб-сайтам, которые проповедуют иудаизм или какую либо другую религию (и наоборот). Кроме того, также не следует ожидать, что представители фашистской идеологии будут выставлять положительные рейтинги коммунистическим веб-сайтам. 

Частью этой дилеммы является то, что никто кроме самого комментатора не знает, на каких именно социально-культурных традициях основываются его комментарии и рейтинги. Ваши собственные представления о цензуре, вероятно зависят от социально-культурных традиций в Вашей стране, и вполне вероятно, что они могут отличаться от представлений о цензуре, зависящих от социально-культурных традиций в других странах. Чьё восприятие является правильным? Конечно, существуют некоторые обобщения, относительно интернет-безопасности. Ни один пользователь, вне зависимости от социально-культурного воспитания и политических взглядов, никогда не захочет чтобы его компьютер был заражён вирусом, тем более, никто не захочет стать жертвой финансового мошенничества, именно поэтому многие из более опытных членов сообщества WOT, как правило, уделяют всё свое внимание только работе по технической безопасности. Тем не менее, никто не может запретить пользователям выражать свои политические и социально-культурные взгляды в их рейтингах и комментариях, потому что запрет может рассматриваться как одна из форм жёсткой цензуры.

==Срок давности рейтингов==
Многие пользователи задаются вопросом: ''«Имеют ли рейтинги срок давности, истекает ли их сила в течении времени?»'' 

Да, сила пользовательских рейтингов слабеет со временем, хотя рейтинги не удаляются автоматически, но с учётом некоторых моментов, они истекают в течение определённого периода времени. Чем старше Ваши рейтинги, тем менее надёжными они считаются. Однако система не забудет Ваш рейтинг, и если Вы посетите оцененный Вами сайт снова, то в этом случае, Ваш рейтинг обновится и будет считаться новым.

AntiVir Free update problem

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Sometimes Avira Free Antivirus has trouble in updating from heavy server traffic. When you install AntiVir, it has a preset time-out limit that may fail from high server load.

This is represented in the update log as being:
<blockquote>''[UPDLIB] [ERROR] Download manager: An error occurred inside the WinINet library.''</blockquote>

If this occurs, you may [http://www.avira.com/en/support/kbdetails.php?id=95 manually update], or run this command via Start -> Run:
<pre>"C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\update.exe" /DM="0" /NOMESSAGEBOX /receivetimeout=120</pre>

Macros

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A macro (from the Greek μάκρο for "big" or "far") in computer science is a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence (often a sequence of characters) should be mapped to an output sequence (also often a sequence of characters) according to a defined procedure. The mapping process that instantiates (transforms) a macro into a specific output sequence is known as macro expansion.

The term originated with macro-assemblers, where the idea is to make available to the programmer a sequence of computing instructions as a single program statement, making the programming task less tedious and less error-prone. Macros often allow positional or keyword parameters that dictate what the conditional assembler program generates and have been used to create entire programs or program suites according to such variables as operating system, platform or other factors.

== VBA ==

VBA has access to most Microsoft Windows system calls and executes when documents are opened. This makes it relatively easy to write computer viruses in VBA, commonly known as macro viruses. In the mid-to-late 1990s, this became one of the most common types of computer virus. However, during the late 1990s and to date, Microsoft has been patching and updating their programs. In addition, current anti-virus programs immediately counteract such attacks.

Forum search

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You can create a custom search engine for your browser to quickly search the WOT forum

== Firefox ==
<pre id="WOT_Scorecard" style="width:800px; overflow:auto;">
<SearchPlugin xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/" xmlns:os="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
<os:ShortName>WOT Scorecard</os:ShortName>
<os:Description>WOT Scorecard</os:Description>
<os:InputEncoding>UTF-8</os:InputEncoding>
<os:Image width="16" height="16">data:image/x-icon;base64,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</os:Image>
<os:Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="https://encrypted.google.com/#q=site:www.mywot.com+inurl%3Aforum+{searchTerms}" rel="self">
</os:Url>
</SearchPlugin>
</pre>

Copy the code above, save it to a text file using a simple text editor such as Notepad, name it ''wot_search.txt''

Then copy / transfer the file to your [http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Profiles Firefox profile] folder and rename it to '''wot_search.xml'''

Restart your browser to load the new [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Search_Bar search bar engine].

== Chrome ==
Chrome [http://www.chromeplugins.org/tips-tricks/custom-search-engines-in-google-chrome/ custom search]

would require this URL:
<pre>
https://encrypted.google.com/#q=site:www.mywot.com+inurl%3Aforum+%s
</pre>

== Opera ==
* Click the search engine select menu, then '''Manage Search Engines'''
* Click '''Add'''
** '''Name''' type ''WOT Search''
** '''Keyword''' type ''WOT Search''
** '''Address''' type or copy / paste:
<pre>
https://encrypted.google.com/#q=site:www.mywot.com+inurl%3Aforum+%s
</pre>
* Click '''OK''' to save

== HTML ==
You can download this HTML code: http://pastebin.com/f9ge1ifV
save it as ''WOT Search.htm'' then load it into your browser, alternatively you can add it to your Bookmarks / Favorites.

Courtesy of: [http://www.mywot.com/user/2169182 Myxt] - [http://www.mywot.com/forum/16414-wot-site-search-is-available forum topic]

An update is available for download at: http://pastebin.com/9ZtGbAmm
It includes Google query string operators to eliminate retrieving unneeded topic lists and their sorted versions.

Trusted Sources

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{{RightTOC}}
28 September, 2006 the blog post: [https://www.mywot.com/blog/responding-to-threats 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 - [http://www.cert-gib.ru/ visit (RU)] | [http://www.cert-gib.com/ visit (EN)]

*DNS-BH - [http://www.malwaredomains.com/ visit]

*Google Safe Browsing - [https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/safebrowsing_faq#whyAdvisory visit]

*hpHosts - [http://hosts-file.net/ visit]

*Malware Domain List - [http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/ visit]

*Malware Patrol - [http://www.malwarepatrol.net/ visit]

*nGran - [http://ngran.com/ visit]

*Panda - [http://www.pandasecurity.com/ visit]

*Yandex Safe Browsing - [http://company.yandex.ru/technologies/antivirus visit]

 

===Pharmaceutical===
*; CIPA - [http://www.cipa.com/fraudulent-sites/ visit]
: Entries on the scorecard are harvested from CIPA's list of fraudulent sites.

*; LegitScript.com - [http://www.legitscript.com/ visit]
: Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.
:* Why trust LegitScript classifications? Forum discussion [http://www.mywot.com/forum/6473-tdp-healthcare-logistic-limited?comment=36049#comment-36049 a note from LegitScript]
 

===Phishing===
*; Artists Against 419 - [http://wiki.aa419.org/index.php/Main_Page visit]
: Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.

*; AutoShun (snort list) - [http://www.autoshun.org/ visit]
: Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.

*; PhishTank - [https://www.phishtank.com/ visit]
: Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.

*; Google Safe Browsing - [https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/safebrowsing_faq#whyAdvisory visit]
: Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.

*; Yandex Safe Browsing - [http://company.yandex.ru/technologies/antivirus visit]
: Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly.
 

===Spam===
*; joewein.de LLC - [http://www.joewein.net/ visit]
: Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly via the new listings blacklist.

*; SURBL - [http://www.surbl.org/lists visit]
: Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly via the new listings blacklist.

*; Spam404 - [http://www.spam404.com/ visit]
: Entries on the scorecard come from the database directly via the new listings blacklist.
 

===SSL Certificate===
*; Symantec - [http://www.symantec.com/ visit]
*: Represents having a valid Symantec SSL Certificate
*: (Formerly VeriSign)

===Trust seal===
*; TRUSTe - [http://www.truste.org/ 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: [http://www.mywot.com/forum/21910-marketion-ru?comment=136324#comment-136324 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: [http://www.mywot.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Sami Sami] ''Revision as of 05:07, 30 September 2010''

Framekiller

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A framekiller (or framebuster or framebreaker) is a piece of JavaScript code that doesn't allow a Web page to be displayed within a frame. A frame is a subdivision of a Web browser window and can act like a smaller window. This kind of script is often used to prevent a frame from an external Web site being loaded from within a frameset without permission.

The typical source code for a framekiller script is:

<script type="text/javascript">
if(top != self) top.location.replace(location);
</script>

There are many variations of this script. This example is cross-browser compatible, avoids depreciated objects, and uses replace which preserves the user's back-button. Comparing object references, top, self and location directly is slightly more efficient, and succinct.
== Framekiller Killers ==

The above framekiller can be prevented from working with the following JavaScript along with a server which responds with a HTTP/1.1 204 No Content, as discovered in this blog

. Just place the following code in the top frame. It works because in most browsers a 204 HTTP response will do nothing, meaning it will leave us on the current page. But the request attempt will override the previous frame busting attempt, rendering it useless.

var prevent_bust = 0;

// Event handler to catch execution of the busting script.
window.onbeforeunload = function() { prevent_bust++ };

// Continuously monitor whether busting script has fired.
setInterval(function() {
if (prevent_bust > 0) { // Yes: it has fired.
prevent_bust -= 2; // Avoid further action.
// Get a 'No Content' status which keeps us on the same page.
window.top.location = 'http://server-which-responds-with-204.com';
}
}, 1);

== Alternative Solution ==

An alternative choice is to allow the user to determine whether to let the framekiller work, as discovered by the Framekiller Killer

.

var framekiller = true;
window.onbeforeunload = function() {
if(framekiller) {
return "..."; // any message that helps user to make decision
}
};

and the code below should be added after the frame tag:

//"my_frame" should be changed according to the real id of the frame in your page
document.getElementById("my_frame").onload = function() {
framekiller = false;
};

== Limitations ==

This client-side JavaScript solution relies on the end-user's browser enforcing their own security. This makes it a beneficial, but unreliable, means of disallowing your page to be embedded in other pages. The following situations may render the script above useless:

* The user agent does not support JavaScript.
* The user agent supports JavaScript but the user has turned support off.
* The user agent's JavaScript support is flawed or partially implemented.
* The user agent's behavior is modified by a virus or plug-in (possibly without the user's knowledge) in a way that undermines the framekiller script.

In 2010 a paper was published highlighting limitations of current frame-busting techniques and proposing improved version:

<style> html{display : none ; } </style>
<script>
if( self == top ) {
document.documentElement.style.display = 'block' ;
} else {
top.location = self.location ;
}
</script>

Additional search rules

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== Adding search rules ==
The preferred way to add custom search rules to the Firefox add-on is to edit [http://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file the user.js file] in your Firefox profile folder using a text editor.

== User-contributed search rules ==
Here is a list of additional search rules you can add to your WOT configuration:

=== Ecosia ===
[http://ecosia.org/ Ecosia] gives at least 80% of their search income to a rainforest protection program run by [http://www.panda.org/ WWF].

'''user_pref'''("weboftrust.search.ecosia.display",
"Ecosia");
'''user_pref'''("weboftrust.search.ecosia.url",
"^http(s)?\\:\\/\\/(ssl\\.|www\\.)*ecosia\\.org\\/search\\.php\\?");
'''user_pref'''("weboftrust.search.ecosia.ign",
"^http(s)?\\:\\/\\/([\\w\\-]+\\.)*(ecosia\\.org|bingj\\.com)\\/");
'''user_pref'''("weboftrust.search.ecosia.prestyle",
"a[target] ~ [ATTR] { display: none ! important; }");
'''user_pref'''("weboftrust.search.ecosia.style",
"a ~ [ATTR=\"NAME\"] { background: url(IMAGE) right no-repeat; }");
'''user_pref'''("weboftrust.search.ecosia.pre0.match", 3);
'''user_pref'''("weboftrust.search.ecosia.pre0.re",
"^http(s)?\\:\\/\\/([\\w\\-]+\\.)*ecosia\\.org\\/goto\\.php\\\\?.*&u=(http[^&]+)");

Note: the <tt>prestyle</tt> rule stops another rating symbol from appearing next to the "Open in a new tab" icon.

There is also a [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/Web-Of-Trust-WOT-rating-Ecosia/ restartless addon] available from an independent developer which adds these rules.

=== Yauba ===
[http://www.yauba.com/ Yauba] is a real-time search engine focused on privacy.

'''user_pref'''("weboftrust.search.yauba.display",
"Yauba");
'''user_pref'''("weboftrust.search.yauba.url",
"^http(s)?\\:\\/\\/(www\\.)?yauba\\.com\\/");
'''user_pref'''("weboftrust.search.yauba.ign",
"^http(s)?\\:\\/\\/(www\\.)?yauba\\.com\\/");
'''user_pref'''("weboftrust.search.yauba.style",
"h1 a ~ [ATTR=\"NAME\"] { background: url(IMAGE) right no-repeat; }");

== Creating your own rules ==
If you know how to write [http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html CSS selectors] and [http://regular-expressions.info regular expressions] you can also make your own rules.

You can quickly test your own rules by adding them to [http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config about:config] and editing them. You can create rules using the following table:
{| style="border:1px solid black;border-collapse:collapse;" cellpadding="2"
|-
! scope="col" width="400" style="border:1px solid black" | Prefix
! style="border:1px solid black"|Description
|-
| style="border:1px solid black" |weboftrust.search.<nowiki><the name of your rule></nowiki>.'''display'''
| style="border:1px solid black" |The name that will displayed at the WOT search engine settings page
|-
| style="border:1px solid black" |weboftrust.search.<nowiki><the name of your rule></nowiki>.'''url'''
| style="border:1px solid black" |A JavaScript regular expression matching the page at which WOT will run. Please note that special characters will be have to escaped ONCE if you add rules via about:config and TWICE if you enter your rules in the user.js file.
|-
| style="border:1px solid black" |weboftrust.search.<nowiki><the name of your rule></nowiki>.'''ign'''
| style="border:1px solid black" |A JavaScript regular expression matching the site WOT runs at, for which ratings will NOT be shown. Again, please mind that you'll have to encode special characters.
|}

Unrated scorecard

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WOT reputations are ''dynamic'', they constantly change with both user input and no input; input is defined as ''ratings'', remember [[FAQ#Ratings_vs._comments|comments are not ratings]] which have no affect towards the reputation.

User ratings have different ''weights'' which is determined by the [[Rating reliability|user's rating reliability]]. Once a rating is recorded, it will slowly begin to "fade away" meaning the weight starts to lower.

When a user revisits a site scorecard (IP or domain name) that the user previously rated, there is no effect unless their rating is re-saved (changed). The user's re-saved rating is recorded as a refreshed rating; the user's rating weight is refreshed, the user's "time clock is reset". Users having access to the [[Mass_rating_tool|mass rating tool (MRT)]] can rate multiple domains with "one click" each rating is counted as new and the "weight drop-off clock" starts.

If the user makes a single visit (or only one rating via the MRT), then ''in time the weight will drop so low that it '''no longer has an effect''' on the reputation''.

Sites which are not often visited by WOT users, see: [[Scorecard#Popularity|scorecard popularity]], can return to an ''unrated state.'' This is especially true for domains which are rated by use of the mass rating tool; seldom are domains rated more than once by the same user.

Note: Please do '''not''' offer these domains any ratings based upon their being referenced in this article, they are ''examples'' only.

Insert table or definition list?

*IMG - validating.ru - [https://www.mywot.com/scorecard/validating.ru current scorecard state]
<blockquote>This site was in four [[Trusted_Sources|trusted sources]] between 2009-2010: hpHosts, DNS-BH, Malware URL, and Panda's malware blacklist. It was removed from the last one in September 2010. The poor ratings are all from the same time as evident in the screen capture. The reputation changed back to unrated around 05 January 2013 when new ratings started coming in.
 
There are ratings from 2-3 years ago, which have lost weight, and new ratings from a few days ago, which contradict with the old ones.
 
The confidence level is now below the minimum threshold and the site is therefore unrated. It will have a reputation when there are enough new ratings, or for example, if someone updates their rating.</blockquote>

*IMG - bronyboard.net - [https://www.mywot.com/scorecard/bronyboard.net current scorecard state]

*IMG - crossmediadashboard.nl - [https://www.mywot.com/scorecard/crossmediadashboard.nl current scorecard state]

*IMG - lakekeoweerealestate.com - [https://www.mywot.com/scorecard/lakekeoweerealestate.com current scorecard state]

Joe-job

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A joe-job is a message that looks like spam, which is sent to damage the reputation of a web-site by making it look like the message was sent by the victim, who is the target of the spam, not the sender. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe-job.

It is not always easy to tell if a spam campaign is a joe-job, because sometimes one illegal domain will use a joe-job against another illegal domain.
So we cannot just decide by the nature of a spammed domain whether or not it is a joe-job.
Have a look at the WHOIS information of the domain and at its reputation.
Check the reputation with a tool like http://www.urlvoid.com.
If a domain has existed for several years, and has not been blacklisted, than it is not likely that it suddenly will start spamming.

The style of the spam message will be different from average spam.
Real spam will often use redirects and other tricks to make reporting more difficult.
Joe-jobs will display the name of the domain in a prominent way, to make reporting as easy as possible.
The joe-jobs will also often contain provoking text to irritate anti-spammers. That text can be vulgar words or ridiculous offers like heroin or Tomahawk-rockets.
Sometimes this will even be a message as unlikely as “we will send more spam”.

Most recent joe-jobs targeted domains in Eastern Europe, and those domains are in a local language. Such domains depend on local customers and sometimes on customers in nearby countries who share the language. When such a domain is world-wide spamvertized, it is clear that that is a joe-job. A forum on politics in Ukrainian language has nothing to gain from sending world-wide spam to people who can not even read the domain. Therefore, if you receive spam in an unfamiliar language for a domain that also uses unfamiliar language, you can be sure that it is a joe-job.

Joe-jobs are business. Criminal spammers who already have the control over large botnets, offer reputation damage on demand.

It is important to realize that the purpose of joe-jobs is to make as many anti-spammers as possible submit bad comments and ratings at SiteAdvisor and WoT, and report the spam to services like SpamCop and to Registrars.
This means that the spammers use anti-spammers to do the job they get paid for: damaging or even closing the targeted domain.
When reporting joe-jobs to SpamCop, only submit the full headers + from the body only the part above any link to websites, and add the text "<truncated>".
By reporting it in that way, SpamCop will investigate and notify the source of the message (usually an infected system, which is part of a botnet), but nothing is reported on the innocent victim of the joe-job.

Finally, when joe-jobs do not have the desired effect as quickly as the joe-job spammer (or the client they work for) wants, the available botnets sometimes are used for a DDOS attack so that the domains cannot be accessed, or have to pay for an expensive service that offers protection against a DDOS attack.

As always you should comment and rate a domain according to your own experience. Please read the recommendations for comments at: http://www.mywot.com/faq/website/scorecard#howtocomment.
No matter how much you may dislike a certain kind of domain, only comment/rate it for good reasons. The fact that a joe-job has made you aware of the existence of a domain is not a good reason for rating it or commenting on it. Do not let yourself be used by spammers!

Rootkit

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Rootkits are software systems that consists of program/s designed to hide or obscure the fact that a system has been compromised. Contrary to what its name may imply, a Rootkit does ''not'' grant a user administrator privileges, requiring prior access to execute and tamper with system files and processes. An attacker may use a Rootkit to replace vital system executables, which may then be used to hide processes and files the attacker has installed, along with the presence of the Rootkit. Access to the hardware, e.g., the reset switch, is rarely required, as a Rootkit is intended to seize control of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system OS]. Typically, Rootkits act to obscure their presence on the system through subversion or evasion of standard operating system security scan and surveillance mechanisms such as anti-virus or anti-spyware scan. Often, they are [[Trojan Horse|Trojans]] as well, thus fooling users into believing they are safe to run on their systems. Techniques used to accomplish this can include concealing running processes from monitoring programs, or hiding files or system data from the operating system. Rootkits may also install a "[[Backdoor]]" in a system by replacing the login mechanism (such as /bin/login) with an executable that accepts a secret login combination, which, in turn, allows an attacker to access the system, regardless of the changes to the actual accounts on the system.

Rootkits may have originated as regular applications, intended to take control of a failing or unresponsive system, but in recent years have been largely malware to help intruders gain access to systems while avoiding detection. Rootkits exist for a variety of operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and Solaris. Rootkits often modify parts of the operating system or install themselves as drivers or kernel modules, depending on the internal details of an operating system's mechanisms.

For more detailed information, please refer to the Wikipedia main entry for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit rootkits.]

==Removal/detection software==
===Windows===
*F-Secure BlackLight
*Kaspersky TDSSKiller

===Linux===
*rkhunter

Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

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The protection of PII is important to maintain public trust and confidence in an organization, to protect the reputation of an organization, and to protect against legal liability for an organization. Organizations have always considered trust, confidence, and reputation as motivating factors in protecting PII. Recently, organizations have become more concerned about the risk of legal liability due to the enactment of many US federal, state, and international privacy laws.

==Examples of PII Data==
The following list contains examples of information that may be considered PII.

* Name, such as full name, maiden name, mother’s maiden name, or alias

* Personal identification number (PIN), such as your Social Security Number (SSN), passport number, driver’s license number, taxpayer identification number, patient identification number, and financial account or credit card number.

* Address information, such as street address or email address.

* Asset information, such as Internet Protocol (IP) or Media Access Control (MAC) address or other host-specific persistent static identifier that consistently links to a particular person or small, well-defined group of people.

* Telephone numbers, including mobile, business, and personal numbers.

* Personal characteristics, including photographic image (especially of face or other distinguishing characteristic), x-rays, fingerprints, or other biometric image or template data (e.g., retina scans, voice signature, facial geometry).

* Information identifying personally owned property, such as vehicle registration or identification number, and title numbers and related information.

* Information about an individual that is linked or linkable to one of the above (e.g., date of birth, place of birth, race, religion, weight, activities, or employment, medical, education, or financial information).

===Source===
NIST Special Publication 800-122 [http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-122/sp800-122.pdf PDF]
<blockquote>National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-122 Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol. Spec. Publ. 800-122, 59 pages (Apr. 2010) ''Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information (PII): Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Computer Security Division Information Technology Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8930''</blockquote>

===Web forms / registrations===
If your site has a simple web form to email script or simple forum / newsletter subscription registration most likely you are not gathering any ''personally identifiable information''. If you request a name without requiring first and last names, any "name" can be given.
====Examples of non-PII====
; A simple Contact Us form requesting :
:* name
:* email
:* website
:* subject
:* message

; Site / Forum registration requesting :
:* name
:* user name
:* password
:* date of birth ([[Privacy_Policy#COPPA|COPPA]] compliance)
:* email

; Newsletter subscription :
:* email

====Examples of PII====
; A Contact Us form ''requesting'' :
:* name
:* address
:* city / state / province
:* zip-code / postal code
:* phone / mobile number
:* email
:* website
:* subject
:* message

; Site / Forum registration ''requiring'' :
:* first name
:* last name
:* User name
:* location / address (full or partial)
:* phone / mobile number
:* Password
:* Date of birth ([[Privacy_Policy#COPPA|COPPA]] compliance)
:* email

==Australian Data Protection Act==
[https://www.privacyinternational.org/reports/australia Privacy International Australia report]
<blockquote>The Australian Senate on 6 December 2000 approved the [http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/laca/Privacybill/contents.htm Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Bill] which extends privacy protections to the private sector. The bill was strongly criticized by privacy advocates and the opposition political party as being far too weak. [http://www.rogerclarke.com/DV/SenatePBSub2000.html Commentary] by privacy expert Roger Clarke who describes the bill as "the world's worst privacy legislation." The European Commission has also expressed concern that the law would not be adequate for trans-border data flows.</blockquote>
[http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/laca/Privacybill/contents.htm Advisory Report on the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Bill 2000]

Also reference: [http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Privacy/privacy.html Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc.]

==Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act==
===Individual rights===
* know why an organization collects, uses or discloses their personal information;
* ''more''
===Organizations requirements===
* obtain consent when they collect, use or disclose their personal information;
* ''more''

sources:
* Wikipedia [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Personal_Information_Protection_and_Electronic_Documents_Act article]
* [http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/P-8.6/ Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (2000, c. 5)]
* [http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/P-21/index.html Privacy Act (R.S., 1985, c. P-21)]

==Dutch / Netherlands==
* The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Ducth DPA) : http://www.dutchdpa.nl/
: ''supervises the fair and lawful use and security of your personal data, to ensure your privacy today and in the future.''

==European Union Data Protection Directive==

''officially Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data''

The '''Data Protection Directive''' is a European Union directive which regulates the processing of personal data within the [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/European_Union European Union].

source: [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive Wikipedia entry]

===European Commission: Justice and Home affairs===
* [http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy/index_en.htm Data Protection]
: (alternate) [http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/index_en.htm Protection of personal data]
* [http://ec.europa.eu/justice/doc_centre/privacy/law/index_en.htm Legislative documents]

==Hungary Data Protection Bill==
* [http://abiweb.obh.hu/dpc/ Hungarian Parliamentary Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information]
* privacyinternational.org - [http://www.privacyinternational.org/survey/phr2003/countries/hungary.htm visit]

==Finland / Sweden==
Information security and protection of privacy in electronic communications.
* Finlex : http://www.finlex.fi/
* Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA) : http://www.ficora.fi/
*: [http://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/2004/en20040516.pdf Act on the Protection of Privacy in Electronic Communications (PPEC 516/2004)] (PDF - English translation)

==Federative Republic of Brazil==

Article 5 of the 1988 Constitution of Brazil provides that ''"the privacy, private life, honor and image of persons are inviolable, and the right to compensation for property or moral damages resulting from their violation is ensured."''

Reference:
* privacyinternational.org - [http://www.privacyinternational.org/survey/phr2003/countries/brazil.htm visit]

==India Privacy Laws==

No specific legislation pertaining to data protection and privacy has been enacted in India. The Indian government is currently considering the idea of enacting a detailed law on data protection under the initiative of the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology.

References:
* privacyinternational.org - [http://www.privacyinternational.org/survey/phr2003/countries/india.htm visit]
* dsci.in - [http://www.dsci.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=94&Itemid=79 visit]

==New Zealand==

* The Privacy Commissioner's Office - [http://privacy.org.nz/ visit]
* Privacy Act 1993 - [http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1993/0028/latest/DLM296639.html visit]

==UK Data Protection Act 1998==

[http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?activeTextDocId=3190610 Data Protection Act 1998 (c. 29)] 
[https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998 Wikipedia article]
<blockquote>The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which defines UK law on the processing of data on identifiable living people. It is the main piece of legislation that governs the protection of personal data in the UK. Although the Act itself does not mention privacy, it was enacted to bring UK law into line with the European Directive of 1995 which required Member States to protect people's fundamental rights and freedoms and in particular their right to privacy with respect to the processing of personal data. In practice it provides a way for individuals to control information about themselves.</blockquote>

== United States ==

United States privacy law embodies several different legal concepts. One is the invasion of privacy, a tort based in common law allowing an aggrieved party to bring a lawsuit against an individual who unlawfully intrudes into his or her private affairs, discloses his or her private information, publicizes him or her in a false light, or appropriates his or her name for personal gain. Public figures have less privacy, and this is an evolving area of law as it relates to the media.

The essence of the law derives from a right to privacy, defined broadly as "the right to be let alone." It usually excludes personal matters or activities which may reasonably be of public interest, like those of celebrities or participants in newsworthy events. Invasion of the right to privacy can be the basis for a lawsuit for damages against the person or entity violating the right. These include the Fourth Amendment right to be free of unwarranted search or seizure, the First Amendment right to free assembly, and the Fourteenth Amendment due process right, recognized by the Supreme Court as protecting a general right to privacy within family, marriage, motherhood, procreation, and child rearing.

source: [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Privacy_laws_of_the_United_States Wikipedia - Privacy laws of the United States]

=== California's Online Privacy Protection Act ===

According to California's Online Privacy Protection Act (OPPA), all online businesses that "collects personally identifiable information through the Internet about individual consumers residing in California" must have a [[Privacy Policy]] on its website. If a website fails to add a Privacy Policy within 30 days of being notified to do so, then it is in violation of this Act.
[http://leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc&group=22001-23000&file=22575-22579 California Law Code]

=== US Information Technology Law ===

* [http://www.law.stanford.edu/program/centers/ttlf/law/us/it/ law.stanford.edu]

== Other countries - data protection ==
* Austria [AT] : http://www.dsk.gv.at/
* Belgium [BE] : http://www.privacy.fgov.be/
* Bulgaria [BG] : http://www.cpdp.bg/
* Cyprus [CY] : http://www.dataprotection.gov.cy/
* Czech Republic [CZ] : http://www.uoou.cz/
* Denmark [DK] : http://www.datatilsynet.dk/
* Estonia [EE] : http://www.dp.gov.ee/?js=1
* Finland [FI] : http://www.tietosuoja.fi/
* France [FR] : http://www.cnil.fr/
* Germany [DE] : http://www.bfd.bund.de/
* Greece [GR] : http://www.dpa.gr/
* Hungary [HU] : http://www.obh.hu/
* Ireland [IE] : http://www.dataprivacy.ie/
* Iceland [IS]: http://www.personuvernd.is/tolvunefnd.nsf/pages/index.html
* Italy [IT] : http://www.garanteprivacy.it/
* Latvia [LV] : http://www.dvi.gov.lv/
* Liechtenstein [LI] : http://www.dss.llv.li/
* Lithuania [LT] : http://www.ada.lt/
* Luxembourg [LU] : http://www.cnpd.lu/
* Malta [MT] : http://www.dataprotection.gov.mt/
* Norway [NO] : http://www.datatilsynet.no/
* Netherlands [NL] : http://www.cbpweb.nl/
* Portugal [PT] : http://www.cnpd.pt/
* Poland [PL] : http://www.giodo.gov.pl/
* United Kingdom [UK]: http://www.dataprotection.gov.uk/
* Romania [RO] : http://www.dataprotection.ro/
* Slovakia [SK] : http://www.dataprotection.gov.sk/
* Slovenia [SI] : http://www.dataprotection.gov.sk/
* Spain [ES] : http://www.agpd.es/
* Sweden [SE] : http://www.datainspektionen.se/
* Switzerland [CH] : http://www.edsb.ch/
*: http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/235_1/index.html

 
see also: [[Privacy Policy|Privacy Policy]]

Free security

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{{RightTOC}}

=Be secure=

WOT is a free program that will warn you ''before'' entering a dubious site. 
WOT is a further layer of security, but ''not'' an antivirus replacement. 

Maybe you are not sure which suits your PC? Or you have only tried one all the time? 
Remember that no two machines are identical; what works well on one may not be optimal on another. 
Try more before you decide - not all at the same time as they may conflict.

==Free Protection==

* AVG ''Antivirus'': http://free.avg.com/gb-en/homepage
* Avast ''Antivirus'': http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download '''The world's most popular antivirus software'''
* Avira ''Antivirus'': http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus
* Spybot Search & Destroy ''Antispyware'': http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html
* Malwarebytes Anti-malware ''Antimalware'': http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam-download.php
* Kingsoft PC Doctor 3.3 ''Antimalware'': http://softdl.pcdoctor.kingsoft.com/version/setup_multilang_full.exe
* If you want a second opinion on online scanners try [[Online_tools|this]]

=Free vs. Paid=

Please note that "Free of charge" usually means non-commercial & home use only 
(and both of these conditions should be met). A paid version is still better, if you can afford it...

Mass rate comment examples

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These are examples of using the [[Mass_rating_tool#Comment_variable|Mass rating tool's comment variable]]:
<pre style="width:150px;text-align:center;">!domain</pre>
in Scorecard comments that directly place the domin (hostname or IP) into the URL of a reference source. It's always good to be able to give outside links to other sources that may offer some form of proof as to why you have rated a particular domain.

Google's SafeBrowsing Diagnostic's page - [http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2008/05/safe-browsing-diagnostic-to-rescue.html info]
<blockquote>
* Hostname or IP report
*: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=!domain
</blockquote>

hpHosts database - [http://hosts-file.net/ visit]
<blockquote>
* Hostname or IP report
*: http://hosts-file.net/default.asp?s=!domain
</blockquote>

Malware Domain List (MDL) Reports - [http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/ visit]
<blockquote>
* Hostname report
*: http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/mdl.php?search=!domain&colsearch=All&quantity=50
* IP report
*: http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/mdl.php?search=!domain&colsearch=All&quantity=50
</blockquote>

MalwareURL Report - [http://www.malwareurl.com/ visit]
<blockquote>
* Hostname Report
*: http://www.malwareurl.com/search.php?s=!domain&match=0
* IP Report
*: http://www.malwareurl.com/search.php?s=!domain&match=0
</blockquote>

RobTex Report - [https://www.robtex.com/ visit]
<blockquote>
* Hostname Report
*: https://dns.robtex.com/!domain.html
* IP Report
*: https://ip.robtex.com/!domain.html
* Mixed list: hostname and IP
*: https://www.robtex.com/r/x?b=1&q=!domain
</blockquote>

OpenDNS - [http://www.opendns.com/ visit]
<blockquote>
* Phishing site blocked
*: http://phish.opendns.com/?url=!domain
</blockquote>

DomainTools - [http://whois.domaintools.com/ visit]
<blockquote>
* Whois lookup and Domain name search
*: http://whois.domaintools.com/!domain
</blockquote>

KnujOn - [http://www.knujon.com/domains/index.html visit]
<blockquote>
* Spamvertised domain report
*: http://www.knujon.com/domains/!domain.html
</blockquote>

CleanMX - [http://www.clean-mx.de/ visit]
<blockquote>
* Malware - Hostname Report
*: http://support.clean-mx.de/clean-mx/viruses.php?sort=firstseen%20desc&domain=!domain
* Malware - IP report
*: http://support.clean-mx.de/clean-mx/viruses.php?sort=firstseen%20desc&review=!domain
* Phishing - Hostname report
*: http://support.clean-mx.de/clean-mx/phishing.php?sort=firstseen%20desc&domain=!domain
* Phishing - IP report
*: http://support.clean-mx.de/clean-mx/phishing.php?sort=firstseen%20desc&review=!domain
</blockquote>

CentralOps - [http://centralops.net/co/ visit]
<blockquote>
* Domain dossier - (no traceroute)
*: http://centralops.net/co/DomainDossier.aspx?addr=!domain&dom_whois=true&dom_dns=true&net_whois=true&svc_scan=true
</blockquote>

Yandex SafeBrowsing [Russian] = [http://company.yandex.ru/technologies/antivirus visit]
<blockquote>
* Yandex site's security evaluation (similar to Google's Safebrowsing)
*: see also: [http://help.yandex.ru/webmaster/?id=1059440 FAQ]
*: http://yandex.ru/infected?url=!domain
*: http://yandex.com/infected?l10n=en&url=!domain
</blockquote>

== MRT rating resources ==

* [http://www.abuse.ch/ abuse.ch]
*: Malware Database (AMaDa) : http://amada.abuse.ch/
*: SpyEye Tracker : https://spyeyetracker.abuse.ch/index.php
*: ZeuS Tracker : https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/index.php
* [http://www.blocklist.de/en/index.html blocklist.de]
*: full IP list available here: http://www.blocklist.de/lists/all.txt

WOT Scorecard Search Plugin

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{{RightTOC}}
Add WOT Scorecard searches to your browser's Search [engine] Bar.

=Internet Explorer=
''requires IE 7''

For IE 8(+) please refer to: [[WOT Scorecard IE Accelerator]]

IEblog: [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2005/09/14/466186.aspx Adding Search providers to IE 7 using OpenSearch 1.1]

MSDN Library: [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc848862%28v=vs.85%29.aspx Search Provider Extensibility in Internet Explorer]

Basically, you need to create a web page, incorporate a method for IE7 to "see" the custom search, here are a couple examples:

The following code adds the search provider by clicking a link.
<pre style="width:80%;overflow:auto;">
<a href="#" onclick="window.external.AddSearchProvider('http://www.example.com/provider.xml')">Add Search Provider Example</a>
</pre>

Making Search Provider Discoverable
<pre style="width:80%;overflow:auto;">
<link title="My Provider" rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="http://www.example.com/provider.xml">
</pre>

Here is the required XML:
<pre>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
<ShortName>WOT</ShortName>
<Description>WOT provider</Description>
<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
<Url type="text/html" template="https://www.mywot.com/scorecard/{searchTerms}" />
</OpenSearchDescription>
</pre>

If you're installing this locally, from your PC and not by uploading it to an online website, remove the "http://example.com/ from the anchor / link tag. Save both the HTML and the XML file in the same folder and point your browser to the local web page.

=Firefox=
''requires version 2.x and newer.''

Created by WOT Member [https://www.mywot.com/user/15879 Creastery].

The below code shows the XML code of WOT Scorecard Search Plugin.
<pre id="WOT_Scorecard" style="width:800px; overflow:auto;">
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
<ShortName>Check Website Reputation...</ShortName>
<Url type="text/html" method="get" template="https://www.mywot.com/scorecard/{searchTerms}">
</Url>
<Image width="16" height="16">https://www.mywot.com/sites/all/images/fusion/16_16/plain/new_trusted.png</Image>
<OutputEncoding>UTF-8</OutputEncoding>
<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>

</OpenSearchDescription>
</pre>

Alternatively, you can use the code immediately by saving the below code into an XML file and follow the instructions below.

<pre id="WOT_Scorecard" style="width:800px; overflow:auto;">
<SearchPlugin xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/" xmlns:os="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
<os:ShortName>WOT Scorecard</os:ShortName>
<os:Description>WOT Scorecard</os:Description>
<os:InputEncoding>UTF-8</os:InputEncoding>
<os:Image width="16" height="16">data:image/x-icon;base64,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</os:Image>
<os:Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="https://www.mywot.com/scorecard/{searchTerms}" rel="self">
</os:Url>
</SearchPlugin>
</pre>

Note: This code only works if you have saved the file and put in a profile folder of Mozilla Firefox.
Here is how you do it.
For Windows Vista (Windows 6) /Windows 7:
You have to put it in here:
C:\Users\[Insert User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[Junk code here].default\searchplugins\

For Windows XP (Windows 5) or Windows 2000 (Not Windows ME) Users:
C:\Documents and Settings\Insert User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[Junk code here].default\searchplugins\

== Firefox Bookmark ==
[[File:Scorecard_BM01.png|thumb|right|Create new bookmark]]
'''Create new bookmark''' 
Name: WOT Scorecard 
Location: http://www.mywot.com/scorecard/%s 
Tags: 
Keyword: ws 
Description: 
 

Adding a ''keyword'' allows you to type that keyword in the Address Bar followed by the domain name to open the domain's scorecard in the current tab / window.

[[File:Scorecard_BM02.png]]

see also: 
[http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-use-bookmarks Firefox help: Bookmarks] 
[http://johnbokma.com/firefox/keymarks-explained.html Firefox bookmark keywords explained]

=Opera=
Opera is simple, just keep in mind that the search engine input is stored as '''%s''' which you'll need to append to the basic scorecard URL.

In Opera:
# Click the search engine select menu, then '''Manage Search Engines'''
# Click '''Add'''
#* '''Name''' type ''WOT Scorecard''
#* '''Keyword''' type ''WOT Scorecard''
#* '''Address''' type or copy / paste:
#*: <pre>https://www.mywot.com/scorecard/%s</pre>
# Click '''OK''' to save

=Chrome=
Creating a search engine in Chrome is easy too.

# Click the wrench at the top right-hand corner of the browser, then '''Options'''
# Click '''Manage search engines...''' at Basics > Search
# To add the search engine,
#* '''Add a new search engine''' type ''WOT''
#* '''Keyword''' type ''WOT''
#* '''Address''' type or copy / paste:
#*: <pre>https://www.mywot.com/scorecard/%s</pre>
# Press '''Enter/Return''' to save

Participate in the forum

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== How to participate in the forum ==

This text is directed at members of Web of Trust who would like to participate in the WoT-forum.

It tries to give a simple overview of the things that are important and that you can do to help. If in doubt or if you don't understand some parts of this text, try to consult the rest of the wiki or simply ask in the forum. You will be helped and your question may help to improve this guide.

Browsing the forum can be intimidating, with all the information the senior members seem to be able to dig out of thin air. Following the instructions here, you will find a starting point. Some of the tools described here need some experience to use, but it is not as difficult as it may sound at first. Don't let yourself freak out, simply dive in and try it.

===The purpose of the forum===

The purpose to interchange thoughts and information about WoT and WoT related things. That might be new internet regulations, safety concerns, malware lists and other kinds of stuff. Please note: Sometimes dangerous, e.g. malware infected hosts are posted. Be careful and don't click all links!

The current subforums are:

* Comments on websites: Discussions about website ratings.
* General discussion: Discussions about security, malware, online saftey and other WoT related things
* Technical advice: Discussions about technical problems with the plugin, the browser, WoT in general.

===How do I start, how can I help?===

First, please read the following material, to understand how WoT works
ToDo: Add useful links

Now simply try to participate. The easiest way to do this is to help site owners who ask for a (re)rating of their sites out. Some of them are already rated red for some reason. Some are furious, some friendly. All kinds of persons ask.

Be polite and try to help them.

===Check the scorecard===

Reading the scorecard will give you an impression why the site is rated as it is. You can get there by adding the domain name to the link to the scorecard. e.g. in case of "example.com" go to http://www.mywot.com/de/scorecard/example.com

If there are comments, they might give you a few hints about the site. Please use common sense about them. If the site is commented to host malware, be extra careful. Please try to keep an open mind, not all comments are true. Some might be outdated, some created by the owner to promote his site, some by people who do not like him. With some experience you will get a feeling for the comments.

While you are on the scorecard, you might also want to click the Whois link at the top. This will show you who owns the site. If it is disclosed, remember it for later.

===Check for blacklisting===

Blacklisted means, that the site is on one of various lists that track misconduct like hosting malware or spamming. If a site hosts viruses or is a known attack site, you wouldn't like to go there, won't you? If comments contain references to blacklists, please follow the comments to find out more.

You can find some examples for common blacklists here:
How to check on [[How_To_Check_For_Blacklisting#UrlVoid|UrlVoid]].

How to check on [[How_To_Check_For_Blacklisting#Malwareurl|Malwareurl]].

Only after you could confirm (e.g. by a delisting) that the site is safe you should consider to vote the site green. Please note: A delisting does not automatically make a site "good". It still has to meet the rest of the conditions like having a good privacy policy.

===Assessing a site===

Basically, the same rules that apply to site owners apply to your assessment. Contact information, privacy policy, SSL encryption. You should check the [[How_To_Ask_For_Rating|How to ask for Rating]] page for requirements.

Further things to look for:
A missing privacy policy is quite common and the simple case. A more subtle thing is an insufficient or bad privacy policy. Insufficient means that some things are missing and should be mentioned. Bad privacy policys contain passages which are harmful to the people "accepting" them. An example would be: "We are allowed to share the gathered information with third parties without your consent." That line would basically allow the company to give or sell all collected data to anybody.

Whois: If the whois is disclosed, you might want to include it in your assessment. It might not matter for some sites, but would you trust a store that keeps his name/address hidden?

===Answer the forum request===

Respond to the request and write some words to the site owner explaining what he should do. If it is a request for a rather new site, which misses things like privacy policy, you might just want to direct the owner [[How_To_Ask_For_Rating|here]].

If a site is detected on a blacklist, give the person who asked for voting the advice to clean up the site, get delisted and bump the thread. Also, in case other things are missing too, you might give him a hint about that, so that it can be corrected in the meantime too.

When responding please try to mention your detailed findings for your fellow forum members. Cookies, Tracking cookies, open/disclosed whois, ...

Local shared object

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Local shared objects / LSO's are referred to as Flash cookies.
A detailed description may be found on:
* Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Shared_Object Local shared object]
* Adobe [http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/articles/lso/ What are local shared objects?]

Some useful information for the Internet user:
* Adobe [http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/526/52697ee8.html How to manage and disable Local Shared Objects]

A study showing how local shared objects rewrite deleted browser cookies
* Social Science Research Network [http://ssrn.com/abstract=1446862 Flash Cookies and Privacy]

Study: [http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/081109-study-adobe-flash-cookies-pose.html Adobe Flash cookies pose vexing privacy questions]

Firefox add-ons:
* BetterPrivacy : [http://netticat.ath.cx/extensions.html visit] | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623/ add-on]
* Ghostery : [http://www.ghostery.com/ visit] | [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9609/ add-on]

see also: [[Privacy Policy]]

Denial of Service Attack

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A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of the concerted efforts of a person or people to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely. Perpetrators of DoS attacks typically target sites or services hosted on high-profile web servers such as banks, credit card payment gateways, and even root nameservers. The term is generally used with regards to computer networks, but is not limited to this field, for example, it is also used in reference to CPU resource management.

One common method of attack involves saturating the target machine with external communications requests, such that it cannot respond to legitimate traffic, or responds so slowly as to be rendered effectively unavailable. In general terms, DoS attacks are implemented by either forcing the targeted computer(s) to reset, or consuming its resources so that it can no longer provide its intended service or obstructing the communication media between the intended users and the victim so that they can no longer communicate adequately.

Denial-of-service attacks are considered violations of the IAB's Internet proper use policy, and also violate the acceptable use policies of virtually all Internet service providers. They also commonly constitute violations of the laws of individual nations.
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== Symptoms and Manifestations ==

The United States Computer Emergency Response Team defines symptoms of denial-of-service attacks to include:

* Unusually slow network performance (opening files or accessing web sites)
* Unavailability of a particular web site
* Inability to access any web site
* Dramatic increase in the number of spam emails received—(this type of DoS attack is considered an e-mail bomb)

Denial-of-service attacks can also lead to problems in the network 'branches' around the actual computer being attacked. For example, the bandwidth of a router between the Internet and a LAN may be consumed by an attack, compromising not only the intended computer, but also the entire network.

If the attack is conducted on a sufficiently large scale, entire geographical regions of Internet connectivity can be compromised without the attacker's knowledge or intent by incorrectly configured or flimsy network infrastructure equipment.
== Methods of attack ==

A "denial-of-service" attack is characterized by an explicit attempt by attackers to prevent legitimate users of a service from using that service. There are two general forms of DoS attacks: those that crash services and those that flood services. Attacks can be directed at any network device, including attacks on routing devices and web, electronic mail, or Domain Name System servers.

A DoS attack can be perpetrated in a number of ways. The five basic types of attack are:[citation needed]

1. Consumption of computational resources, such as bandwidth, disk space, or processor time
2. Disruption of configuration information, such as routing information.
3. Disruption of state information, such as unsolicited resetting of TCP sessions.
4. Disruption of physical network components.
5. Obstructing the communication media between the intended users and the victim so that they can no longer communicate adequately.

A DoS attack may include execution of malware intended to:[citation needed]

* Max out the processor's usage, preventing any work from occurring.
* Trigger errors in the microcode of the machine.
* Trigger errors in the sequencing of instructions, so as to force the computer into an unstable state or lock-up.
* Exploit errors in the operating system, causing resource starvation and/or thrashing, i.e. to use up all available facilities so no real work can be accomplished.
* Crash the operating system itself.

== ICMP flood ==
See also: Smurf attack, Ping flood, Ping of death, and SYN flood

A smurf attack is one particular variant of a flooding DoS attack on the public Internet. It relies on misconfigured network devices that allow packets to be sent to all computer hosts on a particular network via the broadcast address of the network, rather than a specific machine. The network then serves as a smurf amplifier. In such an attack, the perpetrators will send large numbers of IP packets with the source address faked to appear to be the address of the victim. The network's bandwidth is quickly used up, preventing legitimate packets from getting through to their destination. To combat Denial of Service attacks on the Internet, services like the Smurf Amplifier Registry have given network service providers the ability to identify misconfigured networks and to take appropriate action such as filtering.

Ping flood is based on sending the victim an overwhelming number of ping packets, usually using the "ping" command from unix-like hosts (the -t flag on Windows systems has a far less malignant function). It is very simple to launch, the primary requirement being access to greater bandwidth than the victim.

SYN flood sends a flood of TCP/SYN packets, often with a forged sender address. Each of these packets is handled like a connection request, causing the server to spawn a half-open connection, by sending back a TCP/SYN-ACK packet, and waiting for a packet in response from the sender address. However, because the sender address is forged, the response never comes. These half-open connections saturate the number of available connections the server is able to make, keeping it from responding to legitimate requests until after the attack ends.
== Teardrop attacks ==

A Teardrop attack involves sending mangled IP fragments with overlapping, over-sized payloads to the target machine. This can crash various operating systems due to a bug in their TCP/IP fragmentation re-assembly code. Windows 3.1x, Windows 95 and Windows NT operating systems, as well as versions of Linux prior to versions 2.0.32 and 2.1.63 are vulnerable to this attack.

Around September 2009, a vulnerability in Vista was referred to as a "teardrop attack", but the attack targeted SMB2 which is a higher layer than the TCP packets that teardrop used.
== Peer-to-peer attacks ==

Attackers have found a way to exploit a number of bugs in peer-to-peer servers to initiate DDoS attacks. The most aggressive of these peer-to-peer-DDoS attacks exploits DC++. Peer-to-peer attacks are different from regular botnet-based attacks. With peer-to-peer there is no botnet and the attacker does not have to communicate with the clients it subverts. Instead, the attacker acts as a 'puppet master,' instructing clients of large peer-to-peer file sharing hubs to disconnect from their peer-to-peer network and to connect to the victim's website instead. As a result, several thousand computers may aggressively try to connect to a target website. While a typical web server can handle a few hundred connections/sec before performance begins to degrade, most web servers fail almost instantly under five or six thousand connections/sec. With a moderately big peer-to-peer attack a site could potentially be hit with up to 750,000 connections in a short order. The targeted web server will be plugged up by the incoming connections. While peer-to-peer attacks are easy to identify with signatures, the large number of IP addresses that need to be blocked (often over 250,000 during the course of a big attack) means that this type of attack can overwhelm mitigation defenses. Even if a mitigation device can keep blocking IP addresses, there are other problems to consider. For instance, there is a brief moment where the connection is opened on the server side before the signature itself comes through. Only once the connection is opened to the server can the identifying signature be sent and detected, and the connection torn down. Even tearing down connections takes server resources and can harm the server.

This method of attack can be prevented by specifying in the p2p protocol which ports are allowed or not. If port 80 is not allowed, the possibilities for attack on websites can be very limited.
== Permanent denial-of-service attacks ==

A permanent denial-of-service (PDoS), also known loosely as phlashing, is an attack that damages a system so badly that it requires replacement or reinstallation of hardware. Unlike the distributed denial-of-service attack, a PDoS attack exploits security flaws which allow remote administration on the management interfaces of the victim's hardware, such as routers, printers, or other networking hardware. The attacker uses these vulnerabilities to replace a device's firmware with a modified, corrupt, or defective firmware image—a process which when done legitimately is known as flashing. This therefore "bricks" the device, rendering it unusable for its original purpose until it can be repaired or replaced.

The PDoS is a pure hardware targeted attack which can be much faster and requires fewer resources than using a botnet in a DDoS attack. Because of these features, and the potential and high probability of security exploits on Network Enabled Embedded Devices (NEEDs), this technique has come to the attention of numerous hacker communities. PhlashDance is a tool created by Rich Smith (an employee of Hewlett-Packard's Systems Security Lab) used to detect and demonstrate PDoS vulnerabilities at the 2008 EUSecWest Applied Security Conference

in London.
== Application level floods ==

On IRC, IRC floods are a common electronic warfare weapon.

Various DoS-causing exploits such as buffer overflow can cause server-running software to get confused and fill the disk space or consume all available memory or CPU time.

Other kinds of DoS rely primarily on brute force, flooding the target with an overwhelming flux of packets, oversaturating its connection bandwidth or depleting the target's system resources. Bandwidth-saturating floods rely on the attacker having higher bandwidth available than the victim; a common way of achieving this today is via Distributed Denial of Service, employing a botnet. Other floods may use specific packet types or connection requests to saturate finite resources by, for example, occupying the maximum number of open connections or filling the victim's disk space with logs.

A "banana attack" is another particular type of DoS. It involves redirecting outgoing messages from the client back onto the client, preventing outside access, as well as flooding the client with the sent packets.

An attacker with access to a victim's computer may slow it until it is unusable or crash it by using a fork bomb.

== Nuke ==

A Nuke is an old denial-of-service attack against computer networks consisting of fragmented or otherwise invalid ICMP packets sent to the target, achieved by using a modified ping utility to repeatedly send this corrupt data, thus slowing down the affected computer until it comes to a complete stop.

A specific example of a nuke attack that gained some prominence is the WinNuke, which exploited the vulnerability in the NetBIOS handler in Windows 95. A string of out-of-band data was sent to TCP port 139 of the victim's machine, causing it to lock up and display a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD).
== Distributed attack ==

[[D-D-o-S Attack|Distributed Denial of Service Attack]] occurs when multiple systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system, usually one or more web servers. These systems are compromised by attackers using a variety of methods.

Malware can carry DDoS attack mechanisms; one of the better-known examples of this was MyDoom. Its DoS mechanism was triggered on a specific date and time. This type of DDoS involved hardcoding the target IP address prior to release of the malware and no further interaction was necessary to launch the attack.

A system may also be compromised with a trojan, allowing the attacker to download a zombie agent (or the trojan may contain one). Attackers can also break into systems using automated tools that exploit flaws in programs that listen for connections from remote hosts. This scenario primarily concerns systems acting as servers on the web.

Stacheldraht is a classic example of a DDoS tool. It utilizes a layered structure where the attacker uses a client program to connect to handlers, which are compromised systems that issue commands to the zombie agents, which in turn facilitate the DDoS attack. Agents are compromised via the handlers by the attacker, using automated routines to exploit vulnerabilities in programs that accept remote connections running on the targeted remote hosts. Each handler can control up to a thousand agents.

These collections of systems compromisers are known as botnets. DDoS tools like stacheldraht still use classic DoS attack methods centered on IP spoofing and amplification like smurf attacks and fraggle attacks (these are also known as bandwidth consumption attacks). SYN floods (also known as resource starvation attacks) may also be used. Newer tools can use DNS servers for DoS purposes. See next section.

Simple attacks such as SYN floods may appear with a wide range of source IP addresses, giving the appearance of a well distributed DDoS. These flood attacks do not require completion of the TCP three way handshake and attempt to exhaust the destination SYN queue or the server bandwidth. Because the source IP addresses can be trivially spoofed, an attack could come from a limited set of sources, or may even originate from a single host. Stack enhancements such as syn cookies may be effective mitigation against SYN queue flooding, however complete bandwidth exhaustion may require involvement

Unlike MyDoom's DDoS mechanism, botnets can be turned against any IP address. Script kiddies use them to deny the availability of well known websites to legitimate users. More sophisticated attackers use DDoS tools for the purposes of extortion — even against their business rivals.

It is important to note the difference between a DDoS and DoS attack. If an attacker mounts an attack from a single host it would be classified as a DoS attack. In fact, any attack against availability would be classed as a Denial of Service attack. On the other hand, if an attacker uses a thousand systems to simultaneously launch smurf attacks against a remote host, this would be classified as a DDoS attack.

The major advantages to an attacker of using a distributed denial-of-service attack are that multiple machines can generate more attack traffic than one machine, multiple attack machines are harder to turn off than one attack machine, and that the behavior of each attack machine can be stealthier, making it harder to track down and shut down. These attacker advantages cause challenges for defense mechanisms. For example, merely purchasing more incoming bandwidth than the current volume of the attack might not help, because the attacker might be able to simply add more attack machines.
== Reflected attack ==

A distributed reflected denial of service attack (DRDoS) involves sending forged requests of some type to a very large number of computers that will reply to the requests. Using Internet protocol spoofing, the source address is set to that of the targeted victim, which means all the replies will go to (and flood) the target.

ICMP Echo Request attacks (Smurf Attack) can be considered one form of reflected attack, as the flooding host(s) send Echo Requests to the broadcast addresses of mis-configured networks, thereby enticing many hosts to send Echo Reply packets to the victim. Some early DDoS programs implemented a distributed form of this attack.

Many services can be exploited to act as reflectors, some harder to block than others. DNS amplification attacks involve a new mechanism that increased the amplification effect, using a much larger list of DNS servers than seen earlier.
[edit] Degradation-of-service attacks

"Pulsing" zombies are compromised computers that are directed to launch intermittent and short-lived floodings of victim websites with the intent of merely slowing it rather than crashing it. This type of attack, referred to as "degradation-of-service" rather than "denial-of-service", can be more difficult to detect than regular zombie invasions and can disrupt and hamper connection to websites for prolonged periods of time, potentially causing more damage than concentrated floods. Exposure of degradation-of-service attacks is complicated further by the matter of discerning whether the attacks really are attacks or just healthy and likely desired increases in website traffic.
== Unintentional denial of service ==

This describes a situation where a website ends up denied, not due to a deliberate attack by a single individual or group of individuals, but simply due to a sudden enormous spike in popularity. This can happen when an extremely popular website posts a prominent link to a second, less well-prepared site, for example, as part of a news story. The result is that a significant proportion of the primary site's regular users — potentially hundreds of thousands of people — click that link in the space of a few hours, having the same effect on the target website as a DDoS attack.

An example of this occurred when Michael Jackson died in 2009. Websites such as Google and Twitter slowed down or even crashed. Many sites' servers thought the requests were from a virus or spyware trying to cause a Denial of Service attack, warning users that their queries looked like "automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application"[citation needed].

News sites and link sites — sites whose primary function is to provide links to interesting content elsewhere on the Internet — are most likely to cause this phenomenon. The canonical example is the Slashdot effect. Sites such as Digg, the Drudge Report, Fark, Something Awful, and the webcomic Penny Arcade have their own corresponding "effects", known as "the Digg effect", being "drudged", "farking", "goonrushing" and "wanging"; respectively.

Routers have also been known to create unintentional DoS attacks, as both D-Link and Netgear routers have created NTP vandalism by flooding NTP servers without respecting the restrictions of client types or geographical limitations.

Similar unintentional denials of service can also occur via other media, e.g. when a URL is mentioned on television. If a server is being indexed by Google or another search engine during peak periods of activity, or does not have a lot of available bandwidth while being indexed, it can also experience the effects of a DoS attack.

Legal action has been taken in at least one such case. In 2006, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation sued YouTube: massive numbers of would-be youtube.com users accidentally typed the tube company's URL, utube.com. As a result, the tube company ended up having to spend large amounts of money on upgrading their bandwidth.
== Denial-of-Service Level II ==

The goal of DoS L2 (possibly DDoS) attack is to cause a launching of a defense mechanism which blocks the network segment from which the attack originated. In case of distributed attack or IP header modification (that depends on the kind of security behavior) it will fully block the attacked network from Internet, but without system crash.
== Blind denial of service ==

In a blind denial of service attack, the attacker has a significant advantage. The attacker must be able to receive traffic from the victim, then the attacker must either subvert the routing fabric or use the attacker's own IP address. Either provides an opportunity for the victim to track the attacker and/or filter out his traffic. With a blind attack the attacker uses one or more forged IP addresses, making it extremely difficult for the victim to filter out those packets. The TCP SYN flood attack is an example of a blind attack.
== Incidents ==

-The first major attack involving DNS servers as reflectors occurred in January 2001. The target was Register.com. This attack, which forged requests for the MX records of AOL.com (to amplify the attack) lasted about a week before it could be traced back to all attacking hosts and shut off. It used a list of tens of thousands of DNS records that were a year old at the time of the attack.

-In February, 2001, the Irish Government's Department of Finance server was hit by a denial of service attack carried out as part of a student campaign from NUI Maynooth. The Department officially complained to the University authorities and a number of students were disciplined.[citation needed]

-In July 2002, the Honeynet Project Reverse Challenge was issued. The binary that was analyzed turned out to be yet another DDoS agent, which implemented several DNS related attacks, including an optimized form of a reflection attack.

-On two occasions to date, attackers have performed DNS Backbone DDoS Attacks on the DNS root servers. Since these machines are intended to provide service to all Internet users, these two denial of service attacks might be classified as attempts to take down the entire Internet, though it is unclear what the attackers' true motivations were. The first occurred in October 2002 and disrupted service at 9 of the 13 root servers. The second occurred in February 2007 and caused disruptions at two of the root servers.

-In February 2007, more than 10,000 online game servers in games such as Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Halo, Counter-Strike and many others were attacked by the hacker group RUS. The DDoS attack was made from more than a thousand computer units located in the republics of the former Soviet Union, mostly from Russia, Uzbekistan and Belarus. Minor attacks are still continuing to be made today.[citation needed]

-In the weeks leading up to the five-day 2008 South Ossetia war, a DDoS attack directed at Georgian government sites containing the message: "win+love+in+Rusia" effectively overloaded and shut down multiple Georgian servers. Websites targeted included the Web site of the Georgian president, Mikhail Saakashvili, rendered inoperable for 24 hours, and the National Bank of Georgia. While heavy suspicion was placed on Russia for orchestrating the attack through a proxy, the St. Petersburg-based criminal gang known as the Russian Business Network, or R.B.N, the Russian government denied the allegations, stating that it was possible that individuals in Russia or elsewhere had taken it upon themselves to start the attacks.

-During the 2009 Iranian election protests, foreign activists seeking to help the opposition engaged in DDoS attacks against Iran's government. The official website of the Iranian government (ahmedinejad.ir

) -was rendered inaccessible on several occasions. Critics claimed that the DDoS attacks also cut off internet access for protesters inside Iran; activists countered that, while this may have been true, the attacks still hindered President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government enough to aid the opposition.

-On June 25, 2009, the day Michael Jackson died, the spike in searches related to Michael Jackson was so big that Google News initially mistook it for an automated attack. As a result, for about 25 minutes, when some people searched Google News they saw a "We're sorry" page before finding the articles they were looking for.

-June 2009 the P2P site The Pirate Bay was rendered inaccessible due to a DDoS attack. This was most likely provoked by the recent sellout to Global Gaming Factory X AB, which was seen as a "take the money and run" solution to the website's legal issues. In the end, due to the buyers' financial troubles, the site was not sold.

-Multiple waves of July 2009 cyber attacks targeted a number of major websites in South Korea and the United States. The attacker used botnet and file update through internet is known to assist its spread. As it turns out, a computer trojan was coded to scan for existing MyDoom bots. MyDoom was a worm in 2004, and in July around 20,000-50,000 were present. MyDoom has a backdoor, which the DDoS bot could exploit. Since then, the DDoS bot removed itself, and completely formatted the hard drives. Most of the bots originated from China, and North Korea.

-On August 6, 2009 several social networking sites, including Twitter, Facebook, Livejournal, and Google blogging pages were hit by DDoS attacks, apparently aimed at Georgian blogger "Cyxymu". Although Google came through with only minor set-backs, these attacks left Twitter crippled for hours and Facebook did eventually restore service although some users still experienced trouble. Twitter's Site latency has continued to improve, however some web requests continue to fail.

-In July and August, 2010, the Irish Central Applications Office server was hit by a denial of service attack on four separate occasions, causing difficulties for thousands of Second Level students who are required to use the CAO to apply for University and College places. The attack is currently subject to a Garda investigation.

== Performing DoS-attacks ==

A wide array of programs are used to launch DoS-attacks. Most of these programs are completely focused on performing DoS-attacks, while others are also true Packet injectors, thus able to perform other tasks as well.

Some examples of such tools are hping, JAVA socket programming, and httping but these are not the only programs capable of such attacks. Such tools are intended for benign use, but they can also be utilized in launching attacks on victim networks. In addition to these tools, there exist a vast amount of underground tools used by attackers.
== Prevention and response ==
== Firewalls ==

Firewalls have simple rules such as to allow or deny protocols, ports or IP addresses. Some DoS attacks are too complex for today's firewalls, e.g. if there is an attack on port 80 (web service), firewalls cannot prevent that attack because they cannot distinguish good traffic from DoS attack traffic. Additionally, firewalls are too deep in the network hierarchy. Routers may be affected even before the firewall gets the traffic. Nonetheless, firewalls can effectively prevent users from launching simple flooding type attacks from machines behind the firewall.

Some stateful firewalls like OpenBSD's pF, can act as a proxy for connections, the handshake is validated (with the client) instead of simply forwarding the packet to the destination. It is available for other BSDs as well. In that context, it is called "synproxy".
== Switches ==

Most switches have some rate-limiting and ACL capability. Some switches provide automatic and/or system-wide rate limiting, traffic shaping, delayed binding (TCP splicing), deep packet inspection and Bogon filtering (bogus IP filtering) to detect and remediate denial of service attacks through automatic rate filtering and WAN Link failover and balancing.[citation needed]

These schemes will work as long as the DoS attacks are something that can be prevented by using them. For example SYN flood can be prevented using delayed binding or TCP splicing. Similarly content based DoS can be prevented using deep packet inspection. Attacks originating from dark addresses or going to dark addresses can be prevented using Bogon filtering. Automatic rate filtering can work as long as you have set rate-thresholds correctly and granularly. Wan-link failover will work as long as both links have DoS/DDoS prevention mechanism.[citation needed]

== Routers ==

Similar to switches, routers have some rate-limiting and ACL capability. They, too, are manually set. Most routers can be easily overwhelmed under DoS attack. If you add rules to take flow statistics out of the router during the DoS attacks, they further slow down and complicate the matter. Cisco IOS has features that prevent flooding, i.e. example settings.
== Application front end hardware ==

Application front end hardware is intelligent hardware placed on the network before traffic reaches the servers. It can be used on networks in conjunction with routers and switches. Application front end hardware analyzes data packets as they enter the system, and then identifies them as priority, regular, or dangerous. There are more than 25 bandwidth management vendors. Hardware acceleration is key to bandwidth management.[citation needed]
== IPS based prevention ==

Intrusion-prevention systems (IPS) are effective if the attacks have signatures associated with them. However, the trend among the attacks is to have legitimate content but bad intent. Intrusion-prevention systems which work on content recognition cannot block behavior-based DoS attacks.[citation needed]

An ASIC based IPS can detect and block denial of service attacks because they have the processing power and the granularity to analyze the attacks and act like a circuit breaker in an automated way.[citation needed]

A rate-based IPS (RBIPS) must analyze traffic granularly and continuously monitor the traffic pattern and determine if there is traffic anomaly. It must let the legitimate traffic flow while blocking the DoS attack traffic.[citation needed]
== Prevention via proactive testing ==

Test platforms such as Mu Dynamics' Service Analyzer are available to perform simulated denial-of-service attacks that can be used to evaluate defensive mechanisms such IPS, RBIPS, as well as the popular denial-of-service mitigation products from Arbor Networks. An example of proactive testing of denial-of-service throttling capabilities in a switch was performed in 2008: The Juniper EX 4200

switch with integrated denial-of-service throttling was tested by Network Test

and the resulting review

was published in Network World

.
== Blackholing/Sinkholing ==

With blackholing, all the traffic to the attacked DNS or IP address is sent to a "black hole" (null interface, non-existent server, ...). To be more efficient and avoid affecting your network connectivity, it can be managed by the ISP.

Sinkholing routes to a valid IP address which analyzes traffic and reject bad ones. Sinkholing is not efficient for most severe attacks.
== Clean pipes ==

All traffic is passed through a "cleaning center" via a proxy, which separates "bad" traffic (DDoS and also other common internet attacks) and only sends good traffic beyond to the server. The provider needs central connectivity to the Internet to manage this kind of service.

Prolexic and Verisign are examples of providers of this service.
== Side effects of DoS attacks ==
== Backscatter ==

In computer network security, backscatter is a side-effect of a spoofed denial of service (DoS) attack. In this kind of attack, the attacker spoofs (or forges) the source address in IP packets sent to the victim. In general, the victim machine can not distinguish between the spoofed packets and legitimate packets, so the victim responds to the spoofed packets as it normally would. These response packets are known as backscatter.

If the attacker is spoofing source addresses randomly, the backscatter response packets from the victim will be sent back to random destinations. This effect can be used by network telescopes as indirect evidence of such attacks.

The term "backscatter analysis" refers to observing backscatter packets arriving at a statistically significant portion of the IP address space to determine characteristics of DoS attacks and victims.

An educational animation describing such backscatter can be found on the animations page

maintained by the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis.
== Denial-of-service attacks and the law ==

In the Police and Justice Act 2006, the United Kingdom specifically outlawed denial-of-service attacks and set a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.[40]

In the US, they can be a serious federal crime under the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996 with penalties that include years of imprisonment, and many countries have similar laws.

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{{RightTOC}}
You must [https://www.mywot.com/user/register register an account] to participate on the Forums.

== Before creating or replying on the main Forum ==
Please take a moment to view the WOT community guidelines:
:* [https://www.mywot.com/guidelines General guidelines]
:* [https://www.mywot.com/guidelines/site-owners Website owner guidelines]
:* [https://www.mywot.com/guidelines/forum-guidelines Forum guidelines]

== Currently there are five forums ==
# [http://www.mywot.com/forum/1 General discussion]
#: General and off-topic community chat.
# [http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/5 Site Evaluations]
#: Site owners may post in this forum to have their reputation evaluated by the WOT community
#: Ownership must be '''verified''' to post in this forum
# [http://www.mywot.com/forum/3 Reputation Discussions]
#: For the community to discuss the reputation of domains they don't own.
# [http://www.mywot.com/forum/2 Technical advice]
#: Problems with the add-on
# [http://www.mywot.com/forum/7 Обсуждение репутации сайтов]
#: Ветка для обсуждения сайтов и их оценок сообществом. Если вы владелец, то вам в ветку "Site evaluations"
#: ''translated:'' <blockquote>A forum for the Russian community to discuss websites and their ratings. If you are the site/domain owner, post your site in the [http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/5 Site Evaluations] forum</blockquote>

== Post / Reply ==
Older forum posts are presented in the nested post format where replies are placed directly below the post you are replying to.

Newer forum posts, created on or after [http://www.mywot.com/forum/11248-changes-to-the-forum?comment=77514#comment-77514 26 April 2011], are presented in the flat post format and replies are placed in chronological order, these replies contain the text of the post your are replying to in a <quote> tag

see also: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software#Flat_vs._threaded Flat vs. threaded]

=== Post actions ===
; [[File:Icon-edit2.gif]] Edit
: You have the ability to edit previous entries you've made on the forum.
: WOT Forum retains the original post date. Editing does not [https://encrypted.google.com/#hl=en&q=thread+bump&tbs=dfn:1 bump] the discussion.
: As a common courtesy, it is suggested that you place edited content at the bottom of your original comment, for comparison, along with a manually created edit tag such as '''[edit ''date edited'']''' as the top line of your changes being made.

; [[File:Icon-reply.png]] Reply
: Allows you to reply directly to a post. Older, nested-style post replies have no content, newer flat-style post replies contain the post your are replying to in a <quote> tag.

; [[File:Icon-delete.gif]] Delete
: Allows you to delete your posted replies. You can not delete the first / start post, also known as the Original Post (OP). Only WOT Staff and Forum Moderators may remove entire discussions aka: topics or threads.
: Careful, this action can not be undone.

; [[File:Icon-flag.png]] Flag
: Report [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_%28electronic%29 spam] or other inappropriate content to forum moderators.
: There is a text area which allows the reporter to explain why the comment is being flagged.
: This is not meant to be used for quarreling, if you disagree with a comment simply post a public reply stating so.
: implemented: [http://www.mywot.com/forum/14960-does-anyone-noticed-the-flag-button?comment=101134#comment-101134 August, 2011]

== Allowed HTML ==

The forum does '''not''' incorporate [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode BBcode]

Instead you have the ability to use [http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ HTML tags] as well as customized tags specific for certain usages. Basic HTML is allowed. JavaScript, CSS, and other extended rules are sanitized.

Below the post / reply message box, you will see:
<blockquote>Allowed HTML tags: <a> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <img> <red> <green> <yellow> <massrate> <quote> 
Lines and paragraphs break automatically. 
Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</blockquote>
Also, notice the link to the official posting help: [http://www.mywot.com/filter/tips More information about formatting options]

=== Standard HTML tags allowed ===
==== <a> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_a.asp anchor tag]
: used to make links to other posts or web pages
: Attributes allowed:
:* ''href'' - Specifies the destination of a link
:* ''title'' - Tool tip text displayed with mouse-over
:* ''target'' - Specifies where to open the linked document
:: ''_blank'' - opens in new tab or window
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;"><a href="http://www.mywot.com">WOT (Web of Trust)</a></pre>
: Result: [http://www.mywot.com/ WOT (Web of Trust)]

==== ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_phrase_elements.asp emphasized text]
: used in lieu of italic tag 
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;">This text is emphasized</pre>
: Result: ''This text is emphasized''

==== <strike> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_strike.asp strike tag]
: defines strike-through text
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;">This text has been <strike>stricken</strike></pre>
: Result: This text has been <strike>stricken</strike>

==== ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_phrase_elements.asp strong text]
: used in lieu of bold tag 
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;">This text is strong</pre>
: Result: '''This text is strong'''

==== <cite> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_phrase_elements.asp cited text]
: Defines a citation
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;"><cite>This text is a citation</cite></pre>
: Result: <blockquote><cite>This text is a citation</cite></blockquote>

==== <code> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_phrase_elements.asp code tag]
: Defines computer source code text
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example code snippet:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;"><code>for (i=0;i<=5;i++)</code></pre>
: Result: <code>for (i=0;i<=5;i++)</code>
: Example URL:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;"><code>http://www.example.com/page.html</code></pre>
: Result: <code>http://www.example.com/page.html</code>
: ''notice the link is not "live"''

==== <ul> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_ul.asp unordered list tag]
: Defines an unordered (bulleted) list; use the <li> to begin each list item
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;"><ul><li>first line</li><li>second line</li><li>third line</li></ul></pre>
: Result: <ul><li>first line</li><li>second line</li><li>third line</li></ul>

==== <ol> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_ol.asp ordered list tag]
: Defines an ordered (numbered) list; use the <li> to begin each list item
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;"><ol><li>first line</li><li>second line</li><li>third line</li></ol></pre>
: Result: <ol><li>first line</li><li>second line</li><li>third line</li></ol>

==== <li> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_li.asp li tag]
: Defines a list item.
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example: see ''UL'' or ''OL'' tags (above)

==== <dl> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_dl.asp definition list tag]
: Defines a definition list
: The <dl> tag is used in conjunction with:
:* <dt> defines the item (term) in the list
:* <dd> describes the item in the list
: Attributes allowed:
:* none
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;"><dl><dt>item 1</dt><dd>item 1 description</dd><dt>item 2</dt><dd>item 2 description</dd></dl></pre>
: Result: <dl><dt>item 1<dd>item 1 description<dt>item 2<dd>item 2 description</dl>

==== <img> ====
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_img.asp image tag]
: used to embed an image in a post or web page
: Attributes allowed:
:* ''src'' - Specifies the URL of an image; images must be available online.
:* ''alt'' - Specifies an alternate text for an image
:* ''title'' - Tool tip text displayed with mouse-over
:* ''width'' - Specifies the width of an image; values are expressed in '''px''' (pixels) or '''%''' (percentage)
:* ''height'' - Specifies the height of an image; values are expressed in '''px''' (pixels) or '''%''' (percentage)
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;"><img src="http://www.mywot.com/w/wotlogo.png" alt="WOT Logo" title="WOT Logo" /></pre>
: Result: [[File:Wotlogo.png|WOT Logo]]

=== Customizd tags ===
These custom tags are created by WOT Staff and incorporated into forum use; they are not true HTML tags. Some are taken from ideas posted on the forum by members, others are created out of necessity. The color tags were created back in 2009 from this discussion: [https://www.mywot.com/forum/3675--timo-colors-please @ Timo - colors please] Colors are meant for domain references but may also be used for highlighting a point in a conversation now and then. Please do not abuse this added feature.

==== <red> ====
: Format text color to red
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;">The color is <red>RED</red></pre>
: Result: The color is RED

==== <green> ====
: Format text color to green
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;">The color is <green>GREEN</green></pre>
: Result: The color is GREEN

==== <yellow> ====
: Format text color to yellow
: Example:
: <pre style="overflow:auto;">The color is <yellow>YELLOW</yellow></pre>
: Result: The color is YELLOW

==== <massrate> ====
: Used to contain domain lists consisting of 9 or more domains
: Reduces post length and page scrolling by placing the domain list into a scrollable container (box).
:: Forum announcement: ''03 Feb 2011'' [http://www.mywot.com/forum/9287-how-to-post-mass-rating-lists How to post mass-rating lists]
:* note: you can combine tags, such as the <red> color tag
: Example:
<div style="margin-left:25px;background:#F9F9F9;padding:10px 20px;border:1px dashed #2F6FAB"><tt>
<massrate> <red> example_01.com example_02.com example_03.com example_04.com example_05.com example_06.com example_07.com example_08.com example_09.com example_10.com example_11.com </red> </massrate></tt></div>
: Result
: '''List of domains/hosts:'''
<div style="margin-left:25px;padding:5px 20px;border:1px solid #333333;width:auto;max-width:400px;height:100px;overflow:auto;">
example_01.com example_02.com example_03.com example_04.com example_05.com example_06.com example_07.com example_08.com example_09.com example_10.com example_11.com </div> 

==== <quote> ====
: Automatically inserted when replying to a flat-style post - ''default reply''
: Can also be used manually as a post / reply tag.
: Attributes allowed:
:* ''user'' - Specifies the name of the member you are replying to
:: automatically added during ''Reply''
:: if optionally used with a manual insertion, the user name must be provided.
: NOTE:
: This tag is incorporated only in flat thread posts created on or after [http://www.mywot.com/forum/11248-changes-to-the-forum?comment=77514#comment-77514 26 April 2011]
: older nested posts will not auto-insert this tag.
: Example:
<div style="margin-left:25px;background:#F9F9F9;padding:10px 20px;border:1px dashed #2F6FAB">
<quote user="Admin"> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Etiam condimentum augue in purus fringilla scelerisque ultricies nisl hendrerit. Morbi tempor faucibus nisl sit amet viverra. Aenean diam lacus; mollis sit amet consequat eget, aliquet eget velit? Pellentesque id bibendum eros. Donec sed leo diam, laoreet venenatis lorem. Nam sed turpis. </quote></div>
: Result
<div style="margin-left:25px;padding:5px;">
[[File:Img-quote2.gif]] '''''Originally posted by:''' Admin'' 
''Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Etiam condimentum augue in purus fringilla scelerisque ultricies nisl hendrerit. Morbi tempor faucibus nisl sit amet viverra. Aenean diam lacus; mollis sit amet consequat eget, aliquet eget velit? Pellentesque id bibendum eros. Donec sed leo diam, laoreet venenatis lorem. Nam sed turpis.''
</div>

== HTML characters ==
For a full list of entities see HTML's [http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html entities] page.

A nice chart is available at: [http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm ascii.cl] 
See also:
* [http://brucejohnson.ca/SpecialCharacters.html HTML Special Characters]

Some of the available characters include:

=== Business ===
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
|+'''HTML character entities'''
|-
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | Symbol
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | Description
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | HTML Number
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | HTML Name
|-
| © || Copyright || &#169; || &copy;
|-
| ® || Registered || &#174; || &reg;
|-
| ™ || Trademark || &#8482; ||  
|}

=== Currency ===
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
|+'''HTML character entities'''
|-
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | Symbol
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | Description
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | HTML Number
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | HTML Name
|-
| $ || US Dollar || &#36; ||  
|-
| ¢ || Cent sign || &#162; || &cent;
|-
| £ || British Pound || &#163; || &pound;
|-
| € || Euro || &#8364; || &euro;
|}

=== Punctuation ===
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
|+'''HTML character entities'''
|-
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | Symbol
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | Description
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | HTML Number
! style="background:#FFFCE5;" | HTML Name
|-
| & || Ampersand || &#38; || &amp;
|-
| @ || At symbol || &#64; ||  
|-
| : || Colon || &#58; ||  
|-
| . || Period || &#46; ||  
|-
| – || en dash || &#8211; ||  
|-
| — || em dash || &#8212; ||  
|-
| " || Quotation mark || &#34; || &quot;
|-
| ✓ || Check mark || &#10003; ||  
|-
|   || Space non-breaking || &#160; || &nbsp;
|-
| # || Number sign aka: ''Hash tag'' || &#35; ||  
|-
| < || Less than || &#60; || &lt;
|-
| > || Greater than || &#62; || &gt;
|-
| = || Equal sign || &#61; ||  
|-
| ? || Question mark || &#63; ||  
|}

== Graphics ==
=== Adult content parental advisory ===
Include this image in a post / reply concerning domains having adult related material. 
Please limit usage to one instance per thread.
* English
: [[File:ParentalAdvisory.png]]
: <pre><img src="https://www.mywot.com/w/images/f/f6/ParentalAdvisory.png" /></pre>

== Moderation ==
[http://www.mywot.com/forum/11912-the-wot-forum-to-have-moderators The WOT forum to have moderators] posted: Fri 13 May 2011 - 10:18:39 AM UTC

The General Discussion forum is for posts which are off-topic to website reputation discussions or to WOT support discussions; '''however''' each thread created in the General Discussion forum has a topic as defined in the originating post [OP].

Any reply which is off-topic from the OP may be considered spam. 
Any post / reply advertising products or services linking off site is considered spam.

Spam shall be removed without warning, though for users who have messages enabled a public post will be left informing them what post was removed and why. The reason the PM is not private is for other moderators to be able to view.

; ''re:'' [http://www.mywot.com/forum/4908-forum-guidelines Forum guidelines]
: '''6. Spamming is prohibited'''
: Spamming is defined as either posting multiple times about the same thing or starting multiple topics about the same thing. Continually posting off-topic as well as providing links that have nothing to do with the forum at hand is also considered spam. Spam will be deleted without warning.

; ''re:'' [[Forum_Moderator#Moderator_duties|Moderator duties]]
: '''Spam removal'''
: The purpose is to keep the forum as a channel for useful information exchange, free of spam. The moderators have permission to remove postings that they judge as spamming.

Not all "off topic" replies are considered spam, it depends upon the flow of conversation within the discussion, however a moderator may step in and offer a friendly reminder to ''stay on topic''.

see also: [[Forum Moderator]]

== Inactive accounts ==
There are two forms of inactive accounts:

=== WOT Terminated ===
* Banned
*: Banned users are accounts terminated by WOT Staff generally for some form of abuse such as spamming. The user name retains a profile link and next to the user name you will see '''(Banned)''' All ratings and posts are deleted.
* Deleted
*: When WOT Staff deletes a user's account the user's posts remain and the user name is replaced with ''Anonymous''

=== User Terminated ===
* Delete account
*: Users who [http://www.mywot.com/faq/website/membership#deleteaccount delete their own account] no longer retain a profile link because there is no profile to visit. Their forum posts are retained and next to the user name you will see ''(not verified)''

How To Rate A Site

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Sites can be rated in two different categories: Trustworthiness and Child Safety. You can rate in these two categories, using the addon or [[scorecard]].

History

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==Ideology==

Our idea for WOT is quite simple. Or, it can also be a complex one, it depends on how you think about it and how deep into detail you want to go. We want the Internet to be a safer place for everyone, we want it to be more democratic, and to give everyone a chance to contribute to this objective.

How will we achieve this? Our idea is to form a reputation for websites based on user votes, or testimonies, as we like to call them. The concept is very simple, yet brilliant. Why a website would need a reputation, you may wonder. Think again.

There is a huge number of websites. Over 40 million active domain names according to some estimates. Clearly it is impossible to visit all of them. Most people have probably never even heard of most of them. When you surf to a new site, it is always hard to tell if the content of the site can be trusted. Nowadays, you may think that a site is trustworthy if it looks professional. Appearances do matter. But it is very easy to create the looks, or just copy a good layout from somebody else. The thing is, only when we use the services the website provides, we can find out if the site is trustworthy. "Oh, they did not send the goods I ordered? What can I do now?" This is learning the hard way. It does not sound very nice and you may lose a lot of money, too.

Eventually, these problems will lead to a web, where only the biggest and the most well-known sites are used. But this is not the way it should be. For example, there are thousands of web shops, which are perfectly honest but the occasional user can not know this and will buy only from the big players.

==Brief history of WOT==
How did we think to come up with WOT? Well, our company was founded by two university post-graduates from Finland, working earlier as researchers in the field of computer security and data mining. During our research we came up with the thought of creating a reputation system for the web.

Before rushing on to implement anything, we gave a lot of thought to different types of reputation systems. Quite thorough research was conducted; mainly by reading scientific articles but also by exploring the web. Most of the current possibilities for computing reputations are quite simple, but maybe not so efficient. Others are mathematically beautiful, but not very plausible to implement on this scale.

Finally, we formed the structure of our service. It consists of an add-on to a web browser and a centralized database for the reputations of websites. Using the browser add-on, users can easily give their testimony and also see the reputation right away in their browser. The testimony is then stored in the database, where the site's reputation is computed based on the testimonies. We use complex algorithms for calculating the reputation, and also some other mathematical stuff to make it all work together. However, the user does not have to think of all this, as we aimed to make the user interface very simple.

We believe that by using our service people can form their own opinion of websites based on real information and informed decision making, not just appearances. This hopefully encourages you to explore the web more widely and allows you to have more confidence on the content of that unknown website you just found. On the other hand, you get a warning if the site should not be trusted. However, our service only gives you advice, you still have to make your own decisions. The beauty of our service is that the users form the reputation of a site, not some automated system or an untouchable authority.

==Testing WOT==
Almost a year has passed since we made the decision to make a prototype of the service. Ever since the first version was completed, we have tested WOT diligently and developed it iteratively. No shortcuts to success have been taken. On the contrary, we have put in lots of hard work and thought into this.

Finally today, we are ready to publish the beta version of our service. We hope web users all over the world will find it useful. Please download our extension for Mozilla Firefox and let WOT make your web safer.

note:
This information was gathered from the very first [http://www.mywot.com/en/blog/welcome-to-wot blog entry] posted by ''Sami — Tue 26 Sep 2006 07:16:47 PM UTC''

Правила WOT Wiki

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Вот лишь несколько простых правил, которых необходимо придерживаться
# Не следует добавлять ничего на русском языке на страницы, написанные на английском
# Страницы обсуждения желательно держать на английском языке

Сервисы сокращения URL-ссылок

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24 мая, 2011 года в WOT была введена поддержка сервисов для сокращения длинных URL-ссылок.

Текущий список поддерживаемых сервисов:

* 4sq.com
* abcn.ws
* aol.it
* apne.ws
* bbc.in
* bit.ly
* bzfd.it
* cs.pn
* d3w.io
* dlvr.it
* eca.sh
* engt.co
* es.pn
* exm.nr
* f.ast.ly
* fa.by
* flpbd.it
* gd.is
* goo.gl
* gu.com
* ht.ly
* huff.to
* ind.pn
* is.gd
* j.mp
* lat.ms
* lnkd.in
* migre.me
* n.pr
* nblo.gs
* nyr.kr
* nyti.ms
* on.cnn.com
* on.mash.to
* on.msnbc.com
* ow.ly
* pep.si
* ping.fm
* politi.co
* post.ly
* rww.to
* su.pr
* t.co
* tcrn.ch
* tgr.ph
* thkpr.gs
* tiny.ly
* tinyurl.com
* tl.gd
* tldr.us
* tr.im
* usat.me
* wapo.st
* wp.me
* x.co
* yhoo.it

Online tools

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{{RightTOC}}
Useful freeware and other online tools. A more detailed list of freeware may be found at: [http://www.techsupportalert.com/ gizmo's freeware] such as this article, [http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/probably-best-free-security-list-world.htm Probably the Best Free Security List in the World]

==Free online single file scanning==

* http://virustotal.com (max file size 32 MB, 53 different antiviruses)
* http://virscan.org (max file size 20 MB, 39 different antiviruses)
* http://vscan.novirusthanks.org (max file size 20 MB, 24 different antiviruses)
* http://www.urlvoid.com/ (max file size 20 MB, 24 different antiviruses)
* http://scanner.virus.org (max file size 5 MB, 23 different antiviruses)
* http://virusscan.jotti.org (max file size 10 MB, 20 different antiviruses)
* http://viruschief.com (10 different antiviruses)
* http://filterbit.com (9 different antiviruses)

==Free online folder/computer scanning==

* a-squared : http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/ax/?scan=1
* BitDefender : http://www.bitdefender.com/scanner/online/free.html
* Computer Associates : http://cainternetsecurity.net/entscanner/
* ESET (NOD32) : http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/
* F-Secure: http://www.f-secure.com/en_EMEA/security/security-lab/tools-and-services/online-scanner/index.html (IE only)
* TrendMicro : http://housecall.trendmicro.com
* Panda : http://www.pandasecurity.com/activescan/index/
 

==Anti-Virus / Anti-Malware products free and fully functional==

===Anti-virus===

* avast! : http://www.avast.com/
* AntiVir : http://www.avira.com/ alternate: http://free-av.com/ [[AntiVir Free update problem]]
* AVG : http://www.avg.com/
* Comodo : http://www.comodo.com/
* ClamWin : http://www.clamwin.com/
* ClamAV : http://www.clamav.net/
* Microsoft Security Essentials : https://www.microsoft.com/Security_essentials/
* Panda Cloud : http://www.cloudantivirus.com/
* Malwarebytes : http://www.malwarebytes.org/

===Anti-Malware===

* Ad-Aware : http://www.lavasoft.com
* a-squared : https://www.emsisoft.com
* MalwareBytes : http://www.malwarebytes.org
* Norton Power Eraser (beta) : https://security.symantec.com/nbrt/npe.aspx
* Spybot Search and Destroy : https://www.safer-networking.org

===Anti-spyware products===

* SpywareBlaster : https://www.javacoolsoftware.com
* Spyware Terminator : https://www.spywareterminator.com
* SUPERAntiSpyware : https://www.superantispyware.com
* Windows Defender : https://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx
* Spybot Search and Destroy : https://www.safer-networking.org

===Intrusion prevention===

* GeSWall : http://www.gentlesecurity.com
* Sandboxie : http://www.sandboxie.com
* Snort : http://www.snort.org

===Rootkit removal===
* TDSSKiller : http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208283363

===Windows start-up manager===

* WinPatrol : http://winpatrol.com
* Security Task Manager : http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/
* Autoruns for Windows : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902

===Windows system scanner===

* HijackThis (HJT) : http://free.antivirus.com/hijackthis/ (used in conjunction with Malware support forums for troubleshooting system failures)
 

==MX tools DNSBL lookup==
Check if your [[Internet Protocol Address|IP]] or domain is blacklisted as a source for [[Spam]]

* http://viewdns.info/spamdblookup/ : Check if your servers IP is blocked against a number of common spam databases.
* http://www.mxtoolbox.com/ : Check each MX record (IP Address) against 147 DNS based blacklists.
* http://multirbl.valli.org/ : sender IP or domain name
 

==DNS==
dig for Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000 : http://members.shaw.ca/nicholas.fong/dig/
* (dig is a powerful tool to investigate [digging into] the DNS system)
 

==Spam==
===Spam / PHISH aggregation===

* AbuseButler : http://spamvertised.abusebutler.com
* joewein.de LLC : http://www.joewein.net
* PhishTank : http://www.phishtank.com
* Project Honey Pot : https://www.projecthoneypot.org
* SORBS (Spam and Open-Relay Blocking System) : http://www.us.sorbs.net
* Spacequad : http://www.spacequad.com
* SpamCop : http://www.spamcop.net
* Stop Forum Spam : http://www.stopforumspam.com
* SURBL : http://www.surbl.org
* uriBL : http://www.uribl.com

===Email headers===
* Email Headers
*: How to View them and Include them in Reporting a Spam or Scam
*: * http://spamlinks.net/track-trace-headers.htm
*: * http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/email_headers.php
* Copy and paste the headers to reveal their source:
*: * http://www.ip-adress.com/trace_email
*: * http://www.find-ip-address.org/email-search/find-email.php
*: * http://www.ipaddresslocation.org/email-tracking/email-header.php
* Decoding the spam; head to eternity - an article courtesy of MysteryFCM aka: hpHosts
*: http://mysteryfcm.co.uk/?mode=Articles&date=25-11-2005

===Reporting Spam===
* Spamtrackers article : http://www.spamtrackers.eu/wiki/index.php/Reporting_Spam
* Sign up for a Spamcop account and report the spam : http://spamcop.net/
* Join others who are fighting spam at IBR : http://inboxrevenge.com/
*: also : http://www.complainterator.com/

===Spam Facts===
* The 10 Worst Spam Support ISPs : http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/networks.lasso
* The 10 Worst Spammers : http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/spammers.lasso
* The 10 Worst Spam Countries : http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/countries.lasso

===Anti-spam portal===
* Spam Links : http://spamlinks.net/
*: the anti-spam portal: everything you didn't want to have to know about spam. Whether you are entirely new to the struggle against spam, or are a seasoned professional system administrator, we direct you to the best resources available to counter spam.

===Historical===
* Blacklist of Internet Advertisers : [http://web.archive.org/web/20020124184904/math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/BL/blacklist.html web.archive.org]
*: this is the Blacklist of Internet Advertisers. It is intended to curb inappropriate advertising on usenet newsgroups and via junk e-mail. It works by describing offenders and their offensive behavior, expecting that people who read it will punish the offenders in one way or another.

====Associated forum topic====
[http://www.mywot.com/forum/3331-spam Spam]
 

==Reputation tools==
These tools can help evaluate the reputation of websites. Some are based on user reports, corporate/organization reports or automated tools (links checkers, anti-viruses, sandboxes...)

* ATMA IP Deny list - Peerguardian format : http://www.atma.es
* AVG LinkScanner : http://linkscanner.explabs.com/linkscanner/avg
* Browser Defender : http://www.browserdefender.com
* Google Safe Browsing : http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=example.com (replace "example.com" with the IP or domain name)
* hpHosts : http://hosts-file.net
* MalwareDomainList : http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/mdl.php
* MalwarePatrol : http://www.malwarepatrol.net/lists.shtml
* MalwareUrl : http://www.malwareurl.com
* McAfee SiteAdvisor : https://www.siteadvisor.com
* McAfee TrustedSource : https://www.trustedsource.org/en/tools
* No Virus, Thanks : http://scanner.novirusthanks.org (File Scanning)
* Norton SafeWeb : https://safeweb.norton.com
* Phish Tank : http://www.phishtank.com
* Sitevet : http://sitevet.com/
* Unmask Parasites : http://unmaskparasites.com
* URL Void : http://www.urlvoid.com
* Web Of Trust : https://www.mywot.com
* Web Security Guard : http://www.websecurityguard.com

* Lenny Zeltser's : [http://zeltser.com/combating-malicious-software/malicious-ip-blocklists.html Blocklists of Suspected Malicious IPs and URLs]
 

==Network tools==

* http://viewdns.info/ : ViewDNS.info - a large collection of free DNS/network related tools. DNS propagation, Chinese Firewall, Whois, DNS report + more.
* http://www.aguse.jp/ : whois, DNS, thumbnail, blacklist check, more.
* http://centralops.net/co/ : Free online network utilities
* http://clez.net/net/ : Free complete network tools for online research.
* http://whois.domaintools.com/ : Whois lookup and Domain name search.
* http://www.who.is/ : whois, DNS, more.
* http://ping.eu : online ping/whois/traceroute/port check/reverse lookup/...
* http://www.geoiptool.com/ : Free online geolocation (from server name or IP)
* http://ipinfodb.com/ : Free online geolocation (from server name or IP)
* http://www.robtex.com/ : Swiss army knife internet tool. Check: RBL, DNS, IP, C-net, whois, Route, AS info, and more.
* http://www.intodns.com/ : checks the health and configuration and provides DNS report and mail servers report.
* http://network-tools.com/ : various: ping, whois, DNS, etc.
* http://untiny.me/ : Get real url from shortened URLs like tinyurl.com (and other) without actually following the link
* http://www.just-traceroute.com/ : Traceroute from 4 different locations.
* http://www.herdict.org/web/ : Herdict Web aggregates reports of inaccessible sites
* http://nettoolset.inteliance.com/ : NetToolset includes Ping, Traceroute+, DNS Lookup, Reverse DNS Lookup, Blacklist Lookup, IP Whois, Domain Whois and Port Scan
 

==Pharmacy verification==

* http://www.nabp.net : The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
* http://www.ciparx.ca : The Canadian International Pharmacy Association
* http://www.legitscript.com : LegitScript (USA and Canada)
 

==SSL Certification testing==

* https://www.digicert.com/help : Check SSL Certificate for proper installation.
* https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html : Check SSL Certificate, also has a widget to add to your website or blog.
* https://www.ssllabs.com/ : detailed report about the SSL configuration of a web site.
 

==Parental control==

See main article: [[Parental Controls]]

==List of Noteworthy Internet Explorer addons==

See main article: [[Internet Explorer]]

==List of Noteworthy Firefox addons==

See main article: [[Mozilla Firefox | Firefox]]

==Check for obsolete software==
Scans for outdated software that is vulnerable to exploit codes, etc.

{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="3" width="100%"
! Name
! Type
!
|-
| [https://www.f-secure.com/web/home_global/free-tools F-Secure Health Check]
| Online scan
| Requires Java
|-
| [https://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/online/ Secunia Online Software Inspector]
| Online scan
| Requires Java
|-
| [http://www.filehippo.com/updatechecker/ FileHippo.com Update Checker]
| Download
| Installation is not required
|-
| [https://www.mozilla.org/plugincheck/ Mozilla plug-in check]
| Online scan
| Plug-ins only
|}
 

==Miscellaneous==

* Anubis : http://anubis.iseclab.org/ (reports the behavior of a Windows executable and activities in Internet Explorer)
* AutoShun (snort list) : http://www.autoshun.org/
* ATMA Deny list : http://atma.es/
* DShield : http://www.dshield.org/
* Better Business Bureau (USA and Canada company verification) : https://www.bbb.org
* Blacklist Alert (LHSBL / RHSBL queries for nuts): http://www.blacklistalert.org./
* BoardReader domain link check : http://boardreader.com/domain/mywot.com
* File.net : http://www.file.net/ (Collaborative file identification)
* JSUNPACK A Generic JavaScript Unpacker : http://jsunpack.jeek.org/dec/go
* Malicious code detection (PDF/Javascript/Flash): http://wepawet.iseclab.org/
* Newly Registered Domain Names : http://domain-daily.com/
* NetworkMiner (Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT) for Windows) : http://networkminer.sourceforge.net/
* Norman Sandbox : http://www.norman.com/microsites/nsic/Submit/en (reports the behaviour of a Windows executable run inside a virtual machine).
* PC Flank Security Tests : http://www.pcflank.com/index.htm (scans for possible exploits you are leaving behind you)
* Pop-up Test : http://www.popuptest.com/ (tests your pop-up blocker)
* Redirect Detective : http://redirectdetective.com/ (URL redirection checker. Detects HTTP redirects, HTTP Refreshes, Meta Refreshes and JS redirects)
* Sandboxie : http://www.sandboxie.com/ (reports the behaviour of a Windows executable run inside a sandbox)
* Site Dossier : http://sitedossier.com/
* Snort network intrusion prevention and detection system (IDS/IPS) : http://www.snort.org/
* Spamavert.com : http://spamavert.com/ (obtain spam from this small inbox)
* SystemLookup : http://www.systemlookup.com/ (search engine for CLSIDs, services and etc. listing them as either legitimate or malicious)
* Tor : http://www.torproject.org/ (surf with more privacy)
* VB100% : http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/index (keep updated on which antiviruses are passing the latest malware tests)
* Web Sniffer : http://web-sniffer.net/ (View HTTP Request and Response Header)
* WhereGoes? : http://wheregoes.com/ (track the redirection path of URLs)

Pointless forum threads

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Some forum threads are totally pointless. They have been referred to as "Dead on Arrival" (DoA). They can waste a lot of members time for no reason and should be avoided.

==Departure posts==

People who are unhappy with their web sites' ratings sometimes start threads to tell other forum participants that they have uninstalled WOT and will not be visiting the forum again. Usually instead of mentioning the site they consider misrated or the particular thing they think WOT should do differently, they call the entire WOT system worthless and unreliable. It's sure to get an angry response from people who volunteer a lot of time contributing ratings to WOT.

There's no point continuing a thread if the Original Poster (OP) has quit and won't read it. It's best to ignore such threads.

==Trolls==

Trolls amuse themselves by creating inflammatory posts just to watch people get angry and argue against them. They have no interest in sharing or learning new information. Although they aren't completely absent from the thread, they might as well be.

There's no point spending a lot of time creating a carefully crafted rebuttal to a position the troll doesn't even believe himself. Again, it's best to ignore such threads. They only make the forum less welcoming to new people coming in on the middle of angry and pointless discussions.

==How NOT to be mistaken for a troll==

Plenty of people come to WOT forums with legitimate concerns and grievances. A productive discussion can improve your website and get you a strongly positive WOT review. But a discussion that starts out badly can get worse quickly. Tips for starting a thread when you have a problem:

1. Read the [http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/4908-forum-guidelines Forum Guidelines]

2. Read the [http://www.mywot.com/wiki/Main_Page wiki]. (We recognize it can be difficult to find. If you found this page, congratulations, you're in the right section.) There is a lot of information in the wiki about how WOT works and about what criteria people will use to rate your web site. They are called "Frequently Asked Questions" for a reason. If you ask people to spend their time addressing a complaint that is already answered here, it is disrespectful of forum members' time. If you ask for your website to be rated before making sure you have appropriate privacy and security, it makes your site's shortcomings seem more significant than its strengths.

3. Mention the website you're concerned about. Don't make vague complaints that there are misrated websites. Of course there are misrated websites. Otherwise there would be no need for anyone to add their own ratings. If you want ''YOUR'' web site's rating to be corrected, let people know what it is.

4. Be specific and honest about your problems. Don't pretend you have no idea why there's a bad rating. If your site was hacked and had a phishing page on it, hey, it happens to the best of us. Tell us how you addressed the vulnerability and secured your site. Tell us what other rating sites and blacklists you've contacted to remove the negative ratings. Give us a timeline so we can correlate the problems you've corrected with the dates of negative comments.

5. If you have complaints about the behavior of any particular people, post evidence. For instance, if all the members of a rival forum discussed trashing your forum's ratings, post a link or screen shot of the thread. If a political blogger made a suggestion that people should express their opinions on your WOT scorecard, post a link to that article.

6. If your site is controversial, try to maintain distance on your own views. Tell forum members what the issues discussed on your site are and why you feel your site is making a valid contribution to the public debate. You have a right to free speech; other people have a right to consider your site untrustworthy if they feel it is distorting or concealing facts. People who vote your site down just because they don't agree probably will have very little weight to their reputation. Ratings from them won't have much effect.

7. Use your head before you type, and read your message several times in "preview" mode before you post. The WOT members with the strongest reputations -- the ones whose ratings can help your site the most -- contribute a lot of time here. If you tell them you think WOT is a complete waste of their time, you're not starting out on the right foot. If you have an argument about something a particular member wrote, be respectful and understand that most people are trying to help you. Members with high reputations get them by being quick to correct any errors that are pointed out to them. If you are belligerent, you're not likely to effectively communicate the reason you feel they have made mistakes, and you won't get corrective action. And you won't gather sympathy from other members who do respect them. WOT forum members have more sites asking for ratings than they have time to rate; you don't want your site to be the last one on everyone's list for review.

8. That being said, it's true that there are some people with high activity scores who can be disagreeable. Activity score is not the same as reputation, and being "Platinum" doesn't mean your ratings are more meaningful. There are people who are quick to take offense over things that are merely problems with machine translations between your languages. There are people who have personality issues. If they can't get past those shortcomings to rate objectively, they aren't likely to have high reputations. They aren't the people who can change your site's reputation much one way or the other. Don't be too quick to become defensive and get sucked into arguments with such people; just make sure you are stating your position clearly and let the other members help you steer the discussion in a more moderate direction.

Ransomware

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Ransomware is a category of [[Malware]] seen when a [[Trojan Horse]] takes over a computer and encrypts the victim's drives, charging money to decrypt it, hence the "ransom".

== First known case ==

In 1989 the AIDS Trojan was written, claiming to be an AIDS Info Diskette. When you ran the AIDSID, the trojan would encrypt your HDD and display a message demanding money in exchange for a password that decrypts the HDD and recovers your files, involving sending $189 to a Post Office box in Panama. If you did not pay, the drive would remain encrypted & you could not be able to access any files and/or programs.

Осторожно, мошенники!

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В интернете участились случаи рассылки электронных писем якобы от лица компании WOT Services, продвигающих услугу для веб-мастеров по «исправлению» репутации их сайтов за денежную плату. Это мошенничество! WOT не рассылает подобные письма и не оказывает платных услуг по накрутке репутаций.

Если вы запросили оценку для вашего сайта на форуме WOT, и через некоторое время к вам пришло письмо, где кто-то, представляясь сотрудником WOT предлагает вам купить хорошую репутацию, то помните, что в данном случае вас пытаются обмануть. WOT никогда и ни при каких обстоятельствах не продает репутацию владельцам сайтов. Каждый сайт должен заработать репутацию по своим заслугам и зависит это только от пользовательских оценок. Печати доверия Web of Trust могут быть куплены только для сайтов, которые уже заработали хорошую репутацию.

Заметьте, что отправители данных писем находят контактную информацию для связи с владельцами непосредственно на их сайтах. Никто кроме вас не сможет получить доступ к вашей контактной информации на сайте WOT.

В случае получения данного письма следует [http://www.mywot.com/support/feedback/general сообщить об этом] в администрацию WOT, если письмо пришло по электронной почте, то приложите все его технические детали. Не отвечайте на подобные письма и никогда не платите за «исправление» репутации своего сайта в WOT.

Как распознать попытку мошенничества:
* Отправитель письма заявляет, что репутацию можно купить. Это не возможно ни при каких обстоятельствах.
* Адрес отправителя не является адресом mywot.com. Такие письма, отправленные не с почтового адреса WOT являются очевидным признаком мошенничества.
* Вы получили такое письмо не на адрес, который вы указали при регистрации в WOT или через контактную форму на вашем веб-сайте.
* Ссылки в письме ведут не на сайт mywot.com. Никогда не оставляйте личную информацию или платежные данные на таких сайтах.
Более продвинутые пользователи могут также посмотреть на технические детали полученного письма, чтобы узнать откуда оно было отправлено. Если вы не уверены в подлинности отправителя письма, игнорируйте его.

Malware submission

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Submit a suspicious file for evaluation or submit a file that is safe but identified as Malware (FP / False Positive).

==Email submissions==
*Email list for multiple AV vendors and online AV scanners - [http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-report-malware-or-false-positives-multiple-antivirus-vendors.htm#List_Of_All_Vendors List Of All Vendors]

==Authentium==
*Submit virus sample (email or FTP) - http://www.authentium.com/mainv2/submitsample.htm

==Avast!==
*How can I submit a new virus to Avast!? - [https://support.avast.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=199&nav=0,2 Knowledgebase article]

==AVG==
*How To Handle Infection Suspicion? - [http://forums.avg.com/us-en/avg-free-forum?sec=thread&act=show&id=397 Official forums topic]
*Put the file into password-protected archive and email the archive to virus@avg.com with a brief description as well as the password you used to archive it with.

==Avira AntiVir==
*Submit your sample - http://analysis.avira.com/samples/

==BitDefender==
*Virus Submission, how to submit viruses or samples to us - [http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?showtopic=84 Forum topic]

==CA Antivirus / eTrust-Vet==
*CA Global Security Advisor - http://www.ca.com/us/global-security-advisor.aspx
*Submit malware - http://www.totaldefense.com/support/submit-a-malware-sample.aspx

==ClamAV==
*Submit suspicious file ''or'' false positive (clean but detected) - http://cgi.clamav.net/sendvirus.cgi

==Comodo==
*Submit suspicious file or false positive - http://www.comodo.com/home/internet-security/submit.php

==DrWeb==
*Submit suspicious file or false positive - https://vms.drweb.com/sendvirus/

== Emisoft ==
* Submit samples - http://support.emsisoft.com/forum/57-malware-submissions/
: requires forum registration

==ESET | NOD32==
*Virus Sample Submit System - http://samples.nod32.com.sg/

==F-Prot==
*Submission form for suspicious file(s) - http://www.f-prot.com/virusinfo/submission_form.html
*Submission form for reporting a false positive - http://www.f-prot.com/virusinfo/false_positive_form.html

==F-Secure==
*Submit Samples - http://www.f-secure.com/en_EMEA/security/submit-samples/

==Fortinet / FortiGuard==
*Submit a sample - http://www.fortiguard.com/antivirus/submit.html

==Lavasoft / Ad-Aware==
*Upload Malware Samples - http://www.lavasoft.com/support/securitycenter/file_upload.php

==McAfee==
*How to Submit Samples to McAfee Labs - http://vil.nai.com/vil/submit-sample.aspx

==Microsoft Malware Protection Center==
*Submit a sample - https://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Submission/Submit.aspx

==Norman==
*Submit file for SandBox analysis - http://www.norman.com/security_center/security_tools/submit_file/

==PCTools==
*Submit Spyware [Malware] samples - http://www.pctools.com/mrc/submit/

==Quick Heal==
*Submit sample - http://www.quickheal.co.in/submit_sample.asp
*Submit false positive - http://www.quickheal.co.in/submit_fp.asp

==Sophos==
*Sample submission form - https://secure.sophos.com/support/samples

==SUPERAntiSpyware==
*SUPERSampleSubmit - Submit Samples (''software utility'') - http://www.superantispyware.com/downloads/SUPERSampleSubmit.exe

==Symantec==
*Submit Virus Samples - http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/submitsamples.jsp

==TrendMicro==
*Submission Wizard - http://subwiz.trendmicro.com/SubWiz/Default.asp

==Webroot==
*Sample submission is only available to Webroot product users - [http://support.webroot.com/cgi-bin/webroot.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php Ask a question]

WOT for Opera

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== Opera ==
Opera is a web browser and Internet suite developed by Opera Software. The browser handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, chatting on IRC, downloading files via BitTorrent, and reading Web feeds. Opera is offered free of charge for personal computers and mobile phones. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)]

User created WOT for Opera rocks! - [http://www.mywot.com/blog/208-user-created-WOT-for-opera-rocks original Blog post]
Created by Opera user: PH` - [http://my.opera.com/PH%60/blog/ visit]

== What is it, and how can you install it ? ==
[http://my.opera.com/PH`/blog/wot-for-opera-introducing-persistent-storage WOT for Opera] is a User Javascript, kind of an extension.
You just need to download it, and follow [http://my.opera.com/operafan2006/blog/2007/02/13/how-to-install-user-java-script-in-opera these steps] to install it.

You can also use it through GreaseMonkey for Firefox or GreaseKit for Safari.

== What does it do ? ==
This script adds WOT bubbles before each links on search engine results page. These bubbles go green (safe) to red (dangerous). To see details, you just need to click on one of them.

You also can rate a link. To do so, open details of a link, and click on the rating button. A popup will show up so that you can log in, and rate the website.

== Supported languages: ==

* English
* French
* German
* Italian
* Spanish
* Turkish

== Supported search engines and websites ==
A supported search engine or website means you'll see WOT bubbles before each link of the page.

* [http://www.abacho.co.uk Abacho]
* [http://www.alltheweb.com AllTheWeb]
* [http://www.altavista.com Altavista]
* [http://www.ask.com Ask]
* [http://www.baidu.com Baidu]
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* Bing images
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* [http://www.breizhoo.fr Breizhoo]
* [http://www.clusty.com Clusty]
* [http://www.cuil.com Cuil]
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* Good Tree
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Ограничения по комментариям

2015-04-12T15:26:07Z

BFeely: Revert major vandalism

Как и в любом другом типе онлайн системы, которая позволяет пользователям оставлять текстовые комментарии, здесь может быть риск злоупотребления спамерами.

См. для справки: [http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BC спам — несанкционированная реклама в Интернете]

==Флуд-контроль==
*;дата регистрации ≤ 7 дней от текущей даты
*: чтобы снизить массовые спам-атаки была реализована система ограничения при создании сообщений. Новые зарегистрированные пользователи на форуме и в блоге должны ждать 10 минут в промежутке между созданием новых сообщений и редактированием уже существующих. Это ограничение распространяется на всех новых зарегистрированных пользователей, дата регистрации которых менее одной недели.

==CAPTCHA==
*; WOT включает в себя поддержку [http://mollom.com/ Mollom]
*: CAPTCHA была введена для контроля спама в комментариях в [[Оценочная карта|оценочных картах]]. Каждый раз, после каждого 21-го комментария Вам необходимо будет вводить специальный защитный код с картинки. Это необходимо для того, чтобы система могла убедиться в том, что комментарии оставляет ''живой человек'', а не робот-спамер.

==Голосование по комментариям в оценочной карте==
*; ''Возможность голосования по комментариям для этого сайта отключена''
*: Если рейтинг становится противоречивым, то голосование по комментариям отключается. Это автоматическая реакция системы, а не действия, предпринятые вручную персоналом WOT.

==Редактирование комментариев в оценочной карте==
*; Автор комментария не имеет возможности злоупотреблять существующим количеством голосов
*: ''Только положительные голоса удаляются из комментариев и их значения сбрасываются на ноль после редактирования существующего комментария, негативные голоса в комментариях в данном случае сохраняются, то же самое происходит при изменении категории комментария.''
*: ''источник'' — сообщение на [http://www.mywot.com/forum/7278-changing-comments?comment=40421#comment-40421 форуме WOT], ''автор сообщения'' — '''Timo''' (оригинальный текст комментария на английском языке)

==Запрос комментария==
*; Пользователи, не вошедшие в систему не могут запрашивать комментарии в оценочных картах
*: ''источник'' — сообщение на [http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/3998-p-gordon-spammer?comment=51242#comment-51242 форуме WOT], ''автор сообщения'' — '''Sami''' (оригинальный текст комментария на английском языке)

*; Только владельцы веб-сайтов могут запрашивать комментарии
*: ''источник'' — сообщение на [http://www.mywot.com/en/forum/10972-please-report-new-scorecard-bugs-here-only?comment=77012#comment-77012 форуме WOT], ''автор сообщения'' — '''Timo''' (оригинальный текст комментария на английском языке)