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Firetrust SiteHound Description |
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Use the SiteHound Toolbar today. Be safe on the internet.
SiteHound will help you avoid:
Over 4,000 fake bank and credit sites.
Tens of thousands of pornographic and adult sites.
The never ending fake phishing sites.
Malicious sites, which can infect you with spyware and adware if you visit them.
Sites to download software which may infect your computer with spyware, a virus or adware.
SiteHound protects you and your computer from phishing, scams, spyware, adware, security risks, viruses and objectionable content while you surf the web.
SiteHound is free to use, or you can upgrade to the enhanced version.
Wouldn't it be great to know when you're visiting a site, to know whether it's reputable or not?
It would be extremely valuable to be warned before you entered a rogue site that you risk being infected with spyware, a virus, or that the site was actually a scam.
SiteHound does exactly this (see below) and could save you a lot of time and money. Remember, prevention is better than a cure.
Everyday thousands of people around the world fall victim to online scams and fraud and end up losing millions of dollars.
These scams are extremely clever and are only increasing in their ability to trick more and more people out of their money. Soon it's going to be near impossible to tell a scam from the real thing.
These scams are carried out in any of the following ways:
You visit a site and spyware is loaded on to your computer without your knowledge. Soon your computer slows down and starts displaying advertising which you don't want. Little do you know that your computer has also been taken hostage and is being used as a zombie to send spam all around the world.
You visit a site to download software your friends tell you is fun. A key logger is then loaded in to your computer without your knowledge and starts transmitting every key stroke you make to criminals in a far off land.
You receive an email from your bank, but it's really a scam and you innocently give away all your banking details. The scammers have simply replicated your banks website.
You download some free software and the software also installs a virus which logs your keystrokes and skews your search results when using a search engine.
A friend passes on information that you can donate money through a particular website after a recent tragedy, but it turns out the website is a scam.
Software which you find to stop spyware actually turns out to be loaded full of spyware and the website lists no contact details, refund policy or terms and conditions.
You've received an unsolicited email concerning some of your details but you're not sure if it's genuine or a scam.
You haven't updated your computer with the latest security updates. You visit a website and your computer gets hacked - but you don't know it.
These are just some of the ways you can be potentially tricked on the Internet and criminals are always devising not only more hacks to get in to your computer but also subtle social engineering techniques to part you with your money.
The problem is, most of the time you will never know, until it is too late.
Until now...
Following on from the success of our other security products with over 6 million users from around the world, we are pleased to announce the availability of SiteHound.
SiteHound brings trust to the Internet.
Introducing SiteHound, the safe way to browse the Internet.
With SiteHound, when you browse the Internet, you're shown a warning page every time you go to a site which is a known scam, potentially loads viruses or spyware on to your computer, has questionable content or anything you would not consider reasonable.
Of course we don't want to block you completely from visiting the site if you really want to visit it, instead you are shown a warning page with information about that site. From there you can choose to enter the site or go back.
Simple really! And it could save you a whole lot of money and time.
Here's some quick points about how SiteHound works.
SiteHound is a free add-on to Internet Explorer.
(Users of Firefox - a version for you is coming soon.)
SiteHound's comprehensive database gathers the knowledge from other users and respected experts from the online security community to tell you which sites are real and which are bogus.
SiteHound will alert you when you enter a site which is known to contain:
Fraudulent claims or scams
Offensive material
Security vulnerabilities
Spyware or Adware
Spam related material
or other content deemed to be unsafe
Specifically, SiteHound blocks these categories
Adult
Spyware
Spam Advertising
Phishing
Possible scam or fraud
Misleading or False Advertising
Pharming
Rogue or Suspect Product
Adware
Malware or Virus
-Spyware, Viruses and Trojans
Most security experts now recommend that you have at least two anti-spyware products on your computer to have a good chance at catching and removing all the different kinds of spyware.
At Firetrust, we prefer a simpler approach to security problems. And this is:
Don't let them into your PC in the first place!
Like most things in life, prevention is better (not to mention cheaper and less stressful) than the cure. With virus and spyware writers getting so adept at writing cunning and damaging malware, it's best to not be vulnerable in the first place.
SiteHound will let you know first if
The site may infect you with spyware or viruses just by visiting it.
The software you're about to download has spyware or viruses within the software.
The software you're about to download has a licensing policy that lets it install adware into your computer, causing popup adverts to be displayed.
The link you've just clicked on can infect you with spyware or viruses, or leads you to a fraudulent site.
About many other routes to getting infected with spyware, viruses and Trojans. |
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