ScanSafe announces first free spyware scanning & cassification service for web sarch.Scandoo.com aims to provide web 'traffic lights' to take the risk out of clicking online. It is claimed to be the first secure search service available free to anyone on the web. Currently in initial beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the , Scandoo.com provides an early warning system to help users search the web safely and securely and avoid the risk of clicking on unknown web sites. The simple, intuitive service guides web users through searches, allowing them to detect and avoid malware, including spyware, adware and viruses, as well as harmful, offensive or illegal content, such as pornography, gambling, hatred and phishing Pronounced "fishing," it is a scam to steal valuable information such as credit card and social security numbers, user IDs and passwords. Also known as "brand spoofing," an official-looking e-mail is sent to potential victims pretending to be from their ISP, bank or retail establishment. sites. Scandoo.com is the brainchild brain·child n. An original idea or plan attributed to a person or group. brainchild Noun Informal an idea or plan produced by creative thought Noun 1. of security specialist, ScanSafe, a company that scans over three billion web requests a month for corporate users and is the largest provider of managed web security in the world. It also is free, requires no downloads, software installation or updating. The initial version provides search options for Google and MSN Search MSN Search was a search engine by Microsoft that comprised a search engine, index, and web crawler. As of September 12, 2006, MSN Search is now Live Search. This offers users the ability to search for specific types of information using search tabs that include Web, news, images, . The service is expected to be rolled out to the other major search engines, Yahoo! and Ask in the near future. "Scandoo.com eliminates this risk by scanning each search result for anything malicious as soon as you type in your search term and before you visit that potentially dangerous site. Our high speed scanners then feed the data back to the results page, providing instant security ratings--all within a matter of milliseconds. Icons appear next to each site, a green tick if it is safe, an amber question mark if it is unclassified un·clas·si·fied adj. 1. Not placed or included in a class or category: unclassified mail. 2. and should be approached with caution, or a red cross if it is one to be avoided. Any potentially harmful sites containing malware are clearly identified with a 'bug' icon." Users can also scroll over each icon to see more detailed information about the sites' content, to set their own personal security preferences and to provide comment on specific sites. Scandoo.com users can submit feedback for any site, which is then checked--if a change is accepted, the company's scanners and ratings are updated. "Employees of large enterprises often enjoy the latest security services Security services are state institutions for the provision of intelligence, primarily of a strategic nature, but also including protective security intelligence. Examples include the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the United Kingdom, and the for web and instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or , but there has been no move to provide similar security to home and small business users. Search is the main gateway to the web and for us seemed a great place to begin our entry into on-demand consumer security." Type in the word 'toys' or 'dolls' and the search provides a list of options, of which sex sites come up in the top four results. For the term 'peaches' a porn site is the second result. A search on the well known illicit term 'crackz' clearly warns the user of malware infected sites. Statistics: * Over 90 per cent of the new web sites visited are the result of searches * 30,000 new porn web pages are added every single day * A recent Harris Interactive Harris Interactive (NASDAQ: HPOL) is an American market research company that specializes in public opinion research using both telephone and surveys on online panels. The company is the product of a 1996 merger between the Gordon S. Black Company and Louis Harris & Associates. poll showed that 94 per cent of men and 95 per cent of women had visited a porn site by accident. * An AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. study showed that 80 per cent of US home computers are infected by spyware. www.scandoo.com |
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