McAfee® SiteAdvisor™ software provides you with simple red, yellow and green Website safety ratings, McAfee SECURE trustmarks for sites passing more rigorous daily tests, and a Secure Search Box so you can click with confidence and safely surf, search and shop online.
McAfee® SiteAdvisor™ Live goes beyond safe searching and browsing to provide active, real-time, comprehensive protection from sites that can compromise your identity and your PC. Benefit from advanced phishing protection, link checking in e-mails and instant messages, and `protected mode´ to disable interaction with dangerous sites.
This award-winning program tests websites for spyware, spam, phishing, and browser exploits, and its automatic updates help protect you from the latest threats. SiteAdvisor technology works with 20 search engines, including Google, Yahoo!, Bing, AOL, and Ask. It has been downloaded more than 200 million times and does not require any other security software to work.
• Rates websites for safety • Color-coded threat alerts • Blocks risky websites • Anti-phishing protection • Scans email and IMs for risky links • Scans social networking sites for risky links • Shortens URLs for safe sharing • Shop and bank online more safely • Works with other security software
Product Benefits • Safe Guard Your Search Results. With SiteAdvisor software installed, your browser will look a little different than before. We add small site rating icons to your search results. • Secure Search. Use the Secure Search box to block risky sites, to avoid typo mistakes and for all your safe searching needs. • Site Rating. SiteAdvisor site ratings are based on tests conducted by McAfee using an army of computers that look for all kinds of threats. • Protected Mode. Use Protected Mode to set a password to protect you or your family from visiting potentially dangerous websites and downloading files that are risky. • Download Protection. SiteAdvisor scans files as you download them for threats. Depending on the protection level you set, Download Protection will stop the download and warn you of the risks. • IM Link Warning. Get our site ratings in your favorite instant messaging programs. • E-mail Link Warning. You also get site ratings in your favorite email programs. • Safe Share. Easily and safely shorten and share web links to your favorite social networking sites, applications or other locations. • Social Network Protection. Get color-coded risk ratings for links posted within popular social networking websites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+
Additional Benefits • Always Upgrading, Always Updating. Updates are installed automatically. When a new version is available, you get it automatically at no charge during your subscription, ensuring that you always have up-to-date protection. • Convenient, Ongoing Protection. McAfee offers a variety of renewal options to keep your McAfee protection current. • Real People, Real Help. Support from McAfee computer security experts, via Internet chat, e-mail and phone.
System Requirements
Supported Operating System • Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3) • Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit) • Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) • Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) • Windows 8 (32-bit and 64-bit)
System Requirements • Pentium-compatible processor 500 MHz or higher • 256 MB RAM or higher • 10 MB of available free drive space • Internet connection
Supported Browsers • Firefox 11, 12 and 13 • Google Chrome 18 and 19 • Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10*
*Does not support Metro
Supported Email Programs • Microsoft Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010 and Outlook Express • Microsoft Hotmail • Microsoft Live Webmail • Yahoo Mail (classic and new) • Gmail
Supported Instant Messaging Programs • Microsoft Live Messenger • Yahoo Messenger (latest versions)