Hi malware fighters,
What I gave you here is just for the exeptional occasion, just to have an additional card up your sleeve so to say. To Bob3160 I would say, with NoScript you can use scandoo.com as your prefered search engine for Yahoo, Google - works similar like McAfee SiteAdvisor or TrustWatch or WOT. I still like DrWeb anti virus link checker (just to have it near the link before I do click). Don't overdo it, my dear friends, it should be functunal, and then I clear the browser cache after every browser session (Ctrl+Shft+Del). Then do not forget with McAfee SiteAdvisor you only get the reputation of a certain site ( a renowned site could have been hacked just a minute ago, and SiteAdvisor gives you the all green which happened with that Indian Times site recently. With DrWeb's link checker you will get the actual clean or malware results after it checked all against their webservers. It still is innovative i.m.o.
When activated on a site NoScript give you protection even against holes that were not patched fully in Firefox or Flock. So visors up when in doubt, and turn them down whenever you been there before or know this site to be free of malicious code. In a way I still rely on the data in the Netcraft toolbar. Don't know why, it is good and English and it sets me at ease, and saved my glorious behind several times (twice or thrice as I remember).
your anti-malware friend,
polonus
