[OPLINTECH] WOT ~ Web Of Trust

[Chad Neeper]

I find WoT to be particularly useful on staff computers, especially for the
staff that tend to go browsing around looking for subject ideas, graphics,
etc. Those are the ones that experience the most amount of potential
malware infections. WoT provides an excellent layer of awareness that the
site the user is going to has been rated as potentially dangerous by others
that have visited the same site.

I've been using it on my own computer for a few years now.

Chad

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On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Bob Neeper <neeperro at oplin.org> wrote:

>  Chad (Level9 Networks) showed this to me.
> Added it to my Opera and seems to work without any noticeable slowdowns.
> It's been around for awhile so you may know of it.
>
> Web Of Trust at http://www.mywot.com/
>
> It has browser extensions to help identify suspicious sites.
> It is advisory only, sites are not blocked.
>
> When using Google, there is a small colored circle to the right of a site.
> Green is good, etc. Hovering the mouse over it will show symbols and
> information.
> Symbol list shown at:  http://www.mywot.com/en/support/symbols
>
> Any site marked RED will show a WARNING popup when accessed, even by going
> directly to it.
> The warning has a click box to continue on.
>
> WOT will probably be added to all (staff & patron) PC’s.
>
> Downloads available for Firefox, Google, Chrome, Internet Explorer,
> Safari, Opera and Bookmarklet for others.
>
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