Hi DonZ63,
WOT as a web rep is as good as the user database given in. They have a large participation.
I also like M86Security Secure Browsing and BitDefender Trafficlight as web rep link checkers.
DrWeb URL checker is as good as its database, but is going to improve when the new engine, now being beta tested comes in. Sucuri free scan is a great way to scan websites especially for malcode infectations, Comodo's Siteinspector is also as good as the database, also misses out detections.
URLVoid scans, do not have all PUP and riskware detections. So you have to know what scanners to mix to come to the right final conslusion on a suspicious page. MD5 hashes may help, ip and url searches for malware domain resources and viruswatch and migration info may also help.
As I do this now for quite some time, together with user friends like Pondus, Asyn, Dim@rik, spg SCOTT etc etc. URL malware scanning is a rather complicated business.
And our forum member spg SCOTT has often said that you can only really verify if you analyze the code on a site yourself via Malzilla malcode browser or at jsunpack for instance. But doing that you have to be security savvy enough not to get infected (leave the avast shields on under all circumstances), use a VM or sandboxed environment and use script blocking like NotScripts or NoScript and know where to open up a link or just when not to click it). Then always present what you find as a worked over image file (this cannot infect) or make links non-click-through like hxtp -http wxw or -www and feel safer,
polonus
