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lnerenbu
Contributor III
Message 1 of 4

McAfee Site Advisor Warning! 1 in 10 searches contain a dangerous link

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I notice that when I started IE, FFOX and Chrome I received this across the

page (right under Bookmarks Toolbar).  At the left looks like a McAfee

shield, and the words McAfee Site Advisor, but is a duller shade of red and

it has a dialog box asking me if I want to add risk ratings to my search

results.  It also has a checkbox to make Secure Search my default search

engine.  I clicked FINISH without clicking the checkbox and it went away.

Is this a real McAfee message.  It looked suspicious to me.

I took a screen shot and included it.BogusLookingMcAfee.jpg

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exbrit
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Message 4 of 4

Re: McAfee Site Advisor  Warning! 1 in 10 searches contain a dangerous link

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Yes it is McAfee, it's part of SiteAdvisor.

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exbrit
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Message 2 of 4

Re: McAfee Site Advisor Warning! 1 in 10 searches contain a dangerous link

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Moved to SiteAdvisor.

If you don't want Secure Search (which is through Yahoo) then don't check that box but click the Finish button and it shouldn't appear again, until the software upgrades to the next version and may ask you again.

It's genuine.

lnerenbu
Contributor III
Message 3 of 4

Re: McAfee Site Advisor  Warning! 1 in 10 searches contain a dangerous link

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So this is not part of McAfee?  It doesn't sound like it is even though there is the McAfee shield and 'McAfee Site Advisor' displayed. 

exbrit
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Message 4 of 4

Re: McAfee Site Advisor  Warning! 1 in 10 searches contain a dangerous link

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Yes it is McAfee, it's part of SiteAdvisor.

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