Comments on: McAfee deal aims to make Yahoo search safer

McAfee technology will flag users of Yahoo's search to warn against potentially risky Web sites. It's not likely to dethrone Google, but it could curtail Web-based attacks.

[mayadanteamihan]

Hurray for Yahoo!

Go for it, guys!

[inachu]

PWNED!

this will be very bad for those russian website that advertise game trainers that are infected with world of warcraft password stealers.

[don woodard]

Is this a joke???

Everyday that I go to Yahoo site I get a popup from my spybot blocker that Yahoo is trying to push a malicious resource on to my computer. It is http://ad.yieldmanager.com..... I have contacted them and ask them to stop this but no useful response yet. Yahoo should first stop pushing malicious resources before they start trying to clean up the rest of the industry.

[acezsoft]

What about legitimate Adware!!!

Site Advisor is grouping web sites that have legitimate adware bundled with software (Keeps the software free) with Spyware and Virus... This is completely wrong since Adware is a viable business.

Bryan Sambrook
Acez.com

[dschrader]

In a related story

McAfee's web site authentication seems to have dropped the ball:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/29/mcafee_hacker_safe_sites_vulnerable/

I can hear a "oops, my bad" coming my way . . .