McAfee's Site Advisor rating is not meant to damage any website's reputation. It's a tool that is used to let consumers know that they should be cautious and this information is based on the testing the McAfee Site Advisor team does on each site.
Not meant to damage any website’s reputation, but it does, doesn’t it! And it damages the credibility of the webmaster who owns and operates the site in question too doesn’t it!. Of course, McAfee know this and shallow statements like the above mean diddlysquat to genuine white hat webmasters who have been scarred by their useless program.
I was also under the impression that the McAfee site testing was an automated process! Now they’re saying, and I quote, It's a tool that is used to let consumers know that they should be cautious and this information is based on
the testing the McAfee Site Advisor team does on each siteThis tells us that the ‘Team’ are testing sites, and not some automated program that is out their doing it’s own thing without any human intervention….
It would be interesting to be a fly on the virtual wall of the moderator’s private forum. They’re obviously discussing this thread and those who participate in it. They’ve probably talked about deleting it, banning those who post to it, or ignoring it altogether hoping it will soon be lost in the archives of the forum. I assume the latter, but I will keep this thread fresh for as long as it takes to get this sodding issue sorted out once and for all.
I may even keep the momentum going long after our clean sites have been retested. Until such times that McAfee SiteAdvisor do something about improving their services and offer a fast and adequte support system, then they need to be exposed for what they are, or are not, as the case may be.
SPAM, SCAM, and Blatant BS are nothing less than a pest on the net, and companies such are this are responsible for a lot of it, some through deliberation, and a lot through sheer incompetence!!!
McAfee don’t care because they don’t have to! They’re too established to worry about a handful of complaints sprinkled around the World Wide Web. But as someone who is well experienced in the spreading of news using the latest web 2.0 tactics, I may just attempt to damage the McAfee name as they have done mine. No swearing, or cursing, just reporting the hard facts about their SW, their scaremongering tactics to sell and promote their products and or services, and a huge well written article on their system of non-support. What comes around goes around Mr McAfee.
Andy