SiteAdvisor at Nathaniel and Sheree back in Australia

What is it?

SiteAdvisor is a tool-bar that becomes part of your browser and does two things:

When you visit a site there is a button that goes green (good), yellow (caution), red (bad) or gray (untested). This rating has nothing to do with any content on the page but rather it has to do with the web-sites conduct. Do they have pop-ups, install spyware, email spam, etc.
It dynamically changes search results and puts the sites rating next to the link to the site. This means you don’t even need to visit the site to know if it’s good or bad.
If you click on the ratings you can find out the reason behind it as well as lots of additional email about the site.

Why use it?

Spyware, popup blockers and antivirus tools are great but if you never need them in the first place then that’s even better. I’ve installed this product onto a numbers of friends computers and after installing it the number of problems with their computers dropped dramatically. I think the best thing about it is that it’s really easy to understand. Green is good. Red is bad. It works really well for people who treat computers like magic boxes and for people who understand computers it’s a useful tool.