Yahoo Team and McAfee: Web Security
Written on May 23, 2008 by editor
by: Djai Tanji
McAfee and Yahoo announced their partnership on Web’s security wherein Yahoo’s search engine is making available to users the warnings about unnecessary and malicious code on Web sites that will be detected through McAfee’s security technology. McAfee calls the technology, SiteAdvisor and this has been integrated into Yahoo’s search engine mechanism making a user, after performing a search, obtain the flagged sites after clicking “searchscan.” However, no Yahoo advertisers will be picked up and flagged in the SiteAdvisor. The yahoo security warning system does not block users from accessing the page but will recommend to avoid the flagged content. With all this preclusion of users from visiting malicious websites, yahoo will lessen the channels obtainable for spam, adware, malware and phishing to spread.
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