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The problem with SiteAdvisor is that it's owned by McAfee and it comes as a free add-on with most, if not all, of their programs with a deluxe paid version of SiteAdvisor. There are millions of people around the world who use McAfee security products. When they see that a porn site makes unauthorized changes to their pc, I'm pretty sure it doesn't give surfers a whole lot of confidence to keep going and sign up. So many sites already have bad reputations for downloading crap on people's computers, now surfers are being warned BEFORE it happens, whether it's true or not.
SiteAdvisor is FAR from accurate, but regular surfers don't know that. More than likely we don't lose all surfers to some of the idiotic warnings, but on the other hand, I'm sure we lose a lot. When it is accurate, SiteAdvisor did save my ass a few times from getting infected with some crap spyware/adware from a few sites.
When I check stats I turn it off, when I surf I turn it back on and use my own judgment if I want to continue or not, or how badly I want to see a site.
Missie
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