Yahoo and McAfee team up to try and make the web safer
Yahoo and McAfee have teamed up to try and make the web just a wee bit safer to peruse. The online portal will use McAfee’s SiteAdvisor technology to label potentially “unsafe Web sites” that might appear within Yahoo’s search results as “risky web sites.” Things that might make a website “risky” include sites that host malware, virus infected downloads, links to other websites that have similar content, or have a track record of harvesting e-mail addresses for spam purposes. The McAfee/Yahoo partnership is a multi-year deal which could lead to McAfee technology being used in other Yahoo products such as Yahoo Mail. Yahoo Mail currently uses Norton Anti-virus software protection to scan e-mail attachments etc. Yahoo is also actively removing web sites from its search index that are identified as using “drive-by-download” attacks. These are attacks that are launched simply by visiting a website. You can read more about what Yahoo and McAffee are doing on this News.com article (as well as what Google is doing to protect search users).
