Trafficlight

[Overkill]

Why does BDTL say stopsign is safe? it's a well known rogue is it not?

 

[Malware Maniac]

That is not what I learned (although I could be wrong) check out this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saYheJqn1LI&feature=plcp
Maybe someone could test it.
P.S. Don't always rely on WOT.

 

[Overkill]

It was also blocked by my hosts file
http://goo.gl/kc3rO

 

[Malware Maniac]

Link Scanner Is also giving it a green check. Ran it through VT and got 0/28 https://www.virustotal.com/url/78ef5276e8106779ab3d86374d9b69c7c9fb485b37d2f6ae255e0c4e9688e403/analysis/1340201171/ I think it's safe just not well know. Again could be wrong.

 

[Ink]

If you think it's problem, contact BitDefender. But as far I can tell the site and installer is clean (except Comodo heuristics).

 

[malbky]

Do a URL void scan. It is very infrequent that Bitdefender gives false warnings.

 

[ZeroDay]

URLVoid

 

[Jack]

Why does BDTL say stopsign is safe? it's a well known rogue is it not?

The difference in rating is given by the methods used to establish the site score:
Bitdefender Trafficlight is using its antivirus engine to scan the pages for malicious content ,because there isn't any kind of malicious content (Iframe,exploits etc..) , the site gets a green rating.
FIY,Norton also gave stop-sign.com/ a green rating : http://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstop-sign.com%2F

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WOT : http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/stop-sign.com?utm_source=addon&utm_content=rw-viewsc
Web Of Trust on the other hand, checked this site for trustworthiness, and because it's users reported that they had bad experiences with this site and also hpHosts ,a WOT trusted sources reported that this site has been engaged in the distribution of malware, the rating for it is RED.

As you've noticed ,this site is really controversial so I would stay away from it ...

 

[ZeroDay]

I see a lot of people saying WOT isn't so good,but IMHO it's spot on most of the time.

 

[Jack]

It seems that back in 2010 , the company decided to go from rogue to legit.... Still , wonder who is paying 50$ for this product.... :shy:

In a 2003 article covering scareware and other fake utilities, I warned of a tool called StopSign that attempted to disable valid antivirus products. Since that time StopSign's publisher has straightened out. Spyware Warrior and others have removed it from their "rogue" lists. eAcceleration executives admit they made some mistakes back in the day, but they assure me that StopSign Internet Security 1.0 ($49.95/year direct for two licenses) is thoroughly well-behaved. One little problem derails this lovely story of redemption, though. While it's not sneaky or malicious, StopSign also isn't remotely effective as an antivirus.

Normally I'd peruse results from the big independent testing labs to see how they conform to (or differ from) my own results. Since StopSign hasn't been submitted for testing to any of those labs, my own tests will have to tell the full story.

Read more: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2374902,00.asp

 

[Spirit]

I see a lot of people saying WOT isn't so good,but IMHO it's spot on most of the time.

Its failed in my case too,no how its long and useless debate and its like passenger on Indian Airports
"Passengers are responsible for their loss of luggage" either airport staff handles your luggage once you enter in security zone

 

[ZeroDay]

I see a lot of people saying WOT isn't so good,but IMHO it's spot on most of the time.

Its failed in my case too,no how its long and useless debate and its like passenger on Indian Airports
"Passengers are responsible for their loss of luggage" either airport staff handles your luggage once you enter in security zone

I've never seen it steer anyone wrong, but like you say it's a long and useless debate.

 

[HeffeD]

I've never seen it steer anyone wrong

Look at the scorecard for Akamai.com. Look at the reviews. Malicious content, viruses, phising...

Akamai hosts a great deal of the internet. Their clients are companies like, Apple, Microsoft, BBC, The U.S. Government, Adobe, Netflix, Facebook, Yahoo, Amazon, and Blizzard. (to name a few)

There is no way that so many Fortune 500 companies are going to be trusting their data to a questionable host.

Anyone giving those negative reviews clearly have no idea about what they are actually reporting on...

These types of reviews are exactly the type of problems that you encounter with a community driven system like WOT.

In a nutshell, community has no place in my system security!

 

[Ink]

I see a lot of people saying WOT isn't so good, but IMHO it's spot on most of the time.

And I agree with you.

That's the difference between, WOT or others such as BDTF, Norton Safe Web, PC Tools Browser Defender, AVG LinkScanner...

The others use their own Antivirus engine to scan for malicious code, WOT is based of the community.

I was a past user of WOT, but I felt I needed to pull away. Since I didn't want to rely on any website advisor system. I'm going well without any "advisors".

 

[ZeroDay]

Akamai.com Has a green rating LOL. it might have a few comments where people are calling it malicious,but it has a green rating and so in a Google search it would show a green circle meaning......Safe! When doing a web search people tend to look for the green, yellow or red circles for the ratings not go to the score card and read all the comments before visiting a site, if it's green it's usually safe as is the case with the green rated site you stated above.

As for Trafficlight it has privacy issues from what I've read http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=325217&highlight=bitdefender+trafficlight

 

[Overkill]

Thanks for all the comments guys, like Jack said it's controversial so I will stay away.

 

[bitbizket]

WOT isn't useless, it's like second opinion to link/web scanner. Sometimes BDTL also misses to block some malicious sites and WOT give an alert.

 

[HeffeD]

Akamai.com Has a green rating LOL.

Yes, the overall rating is green.

My point is, that people are giving it bad reviews, and these are unwarranted...

How many sites are not quite as lucky and will have even more negative reviews that are unwarranted, pushing them into the red?

 

[ZeroDay]

Most people tend to look at the rating though. If everyone went and read the reviews for every search they did they would spend an awful amount of time on WOT score cards.

 

[HeffeD]

I'm merely saying that whenever you have just anybody making security decisions for you, you're bound to have flawed results.