umbrapolaris said:
jamescv7 said:
Which uses their own algorithms on detecting malicious website and not on users rating based.
Everything based on users rating is flawed since most of those users are not security "experts/geeks"
I will have to partially agree but on the other hand, how many times has a trusted vendor's add-on blocked a legitimate trusted site?
I couldn't count how many times that I see a trusted site blocked by products like AVG LinkScanner, Bitdefender Trafficlight, McAfee Siteadvisor, Panda URL Filter, etc.
For awhile some of these products were listing MalwareTips as malicious, even my own website was listed as malicious because of supposedly hosting infected files even though my site doesn't even host a single file, all files are hosted on download sites like Softpedia, MajorGeeks and vendor's sites.
In my opinion, user ratings are more accurate but not perfect.
WOT is my choice for checking sites, I know it has some issues with trolls giving false ratings and commits but WOT is still far better than the rest.
Always read the commits and do your own research before coming to conclusions about a website. All website checking add-ons have issues with false positives and missing the detection of infected websites. So don't always believe what they say.
Thanks.