McAfee has released a new version of it’s popular web-surfing plug-in, SiteAdvisor. SiteAdvisor is available as a free download for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and some other Mozilla-based browsers, like Flock.

Among other additions, this new version includes a Secure Search box, which filters out only the trusted sites for your search term. There is also an additional McAfee SECURE trustmark for sites which pass the company’s daily rigorous tests. Some websites with the trustmark are Yahoo! and McAfee (of course!).

SiteAdvisor Icons

Probably the only bad thing with this release has been incurred on this blog; PC Tonic is now marked as a “yellow” (spammy / potentially harmful) site as against it’s previous “green” status. I’m not sure what caused this, but hopefully better luck awaits in the next test.

Anyway, keeping my whining aside I’ll still recommend you to get this update for your Internet Explorer (Windows) or Firefox (Windows, Mac, Linux) to have a better and safer web experience. :)

SiteAdvisor Home

Note : Users of AVG 8 products (free / paid) should not install SiteAdvisor due to possible conflicts with AVG’s similar functionality – LinkScanner.