Gisteren hebben McAfee en Yahoo! bekendgemaakt dat zij gaan samenwerken. De zoekresultaten van SearchScan van Yahoo! zullen voortaan direct via McAfee SiteAdvisor worden gescand. Gevaarlijke sites zullen hierdoor in één oogopslag herkenbaar zijn, waardoor internetgebruikers nog voordat zij een riskante site bezoeken gewaarschuwd worden.
Hier in Nederland zullen we er voorlopig nog geen gebruik van kunnen maken, voorlopig is het alleen beschikbaar voor gebruikers in de VS, Canada, UK, Frankrijk, Italie, Duitsland, Spanje en Australie.
“The new SearchScan feature from Yahoo! Search makes searching the Web even safer than ever before. No other search engine today offers this level of warning before visiting sites that can damage or infect a user’s PC and cost them valuable time and money,” aldus Vish Makhijani, senior vice president en general manager van Yahoo! Search. “Through this partnership with McAfee, we can offer users a safer search experience and drive more users to make Yahoo! Search their starting point on the Web.”
“We are very excited to have Yahoo! as a partner to make the Internet more secure for everyone,” zo klonk de reactie van Tim Dowling, McAfee vice president, Web Security Group. “The advance warning offered by McAfee SiteAdvisor is one of the strongest weapons in the battle against online threats. Research indicates that 4 out of 5 Web site visits start with a search, and consumers who use Yahoo! Search will now be alerted to high-risk Web sites. This protects users from known malicious threats such as browser exploits that will wreck their PC with a single click or spyware that can lead to identity theft.”
