Safer Search
| Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 | --Sean |
We have safe search for images to keep us from seeing those things that we don't want to see when we're surfing the visual web, but there's plenty of other things to avoid online -- malware, viruses, spammers, and bears (the number one threat to America!), oh my. Yahoo! Search is giving you a way to skip out on that, too, by partnering with McAfee to bring you SearchScan, an option for web searching that'll flag suspicious sites so that you don't unwittingly click into 'em. You can see a pretty good example of how this can help out by trying to download a couple of free screensavers, which as everyone knows, are always completely innocuous.