Wednesday, March 5, 2008

McAfee SiteAdvisor Plug-in for Firefox

If you are worried that your children will browse websites they are not supposed to and find it difficult to monitor them, then it is time you install McAfee SiteAdvisor Plug-in for Firefox. So, what can this free download do for you?

When your kids conduct searches on Google, Yahoo! or MSN, SiteAdvisor's safety ratings will appear next to their search results. So, all you have to do is tell them to click on links of websites that have a big green tick (√) beside its link and avoid sites with a yellow exclamation mark (!). There is a question mark (?) for sites they have not checked and if you want these looked up, SiteAdvisor will help you too.

And don't worry about remembering what each mark means. When you point at it with your cursor, a McAfee Site Advisor box will appear to tell you what it is about.

To be able to use this service, you have to use Firefox as your web browser. If you are not already using it, you can download it free from Mozilla.

Can't trust your kids to follow your instruction? I am sure I can find an answer to that somewhere and you bet, I will write about it.

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