Comments on: New web safety study – Safe Children in a Digital World http://abunga.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/new-web-safety-study-safe-children-in-a-digital-world/ Abunga.com Blogging to Empower Decency Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:17:53 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Deborah http://abunga.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/new-web-safety-study-safe-children-in-a-digital-world/#comment-211 Deborah Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:04:51 +0000 http://abunga.wordpress.com/?p=71#comment-211 I couldn’t agree with you more about educating children regarding online safety. As a former educational technology specialist in the USA, I felt strongly about being “the guide on the side” when it came to safer surfing. According to an href="http://www.mywot.com/en/press"> analysis </a>of over 17 million websites in January 2008 carried out by <a href="http://www.mywot.com" rel="nofollow">Web of Trust,</a> the most dangerous websites for Internet users are: * Adult Content: 28% of the dangerous sites analyzed * Software: 27%, free and licensed software sold and downloaded over the Internet * Entertainment: 16%, movies, games, music, screensavers, smileys Currently WOT is working to identify hundreds of thousands of additional porn sites. Web of Trust is an online community for reputation rating that lets Internet users share their knowledge of websites. The ratings are based on standards of trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy and child safety. WOT gets it site reputation data from two sources: ratings from the WOT community and trusted sources such as listings of phishing sites. Reputation data is recalculated every 30 minutes, so it's fresh. Users have reported that the people-driven approach gives more accurate ratings than automated ones, especially reputation ratings regarding "vendor reliability" and "child safety" where human input is crucial. I invite you to check out WOT <a href="http://www.mywot.com" rel="nofollow"> Web of Trust </a> today. Deborah, <a href="http://www.mywot.com" rel="nofollow"> Web of Trust </a> I couldn’t agree with you more about educating children regarding online safety. As a former educational technology specialist in the USA, I felt strongly about being “the guide on the side” when it came to safer surfing.

According to an href=”http://www.mywot.com/en/press”> analysis of over 17 million websites in January 2008 carried out by Web of Trust, the most dangerous websites for Internet users are:

* Adult Content: 28% of the dangerous sites analyzed
* Software: 27%, free and licensed software sold and downloaded over the Internet
* Entertainment: 16%, movies, games, music, screensavers, smileys

Currently WOT is working to identify hundreds of thousands of additional porn sites.

Web of Trust is an online community for reputation rating that lets Internet users share their knowledge of websites. The ratings are based on standards of trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy and child safety.

WOT gets it site reputation data from two sources: ratings from the WOT community and trusted sources such as listings of phishing sites. Reputation data is recalculated every 30 minutes, so it’s fresh. Users have reported that the people-driven approach gives more accurate ratings than automated ones, especially reputation ratings regarding “vendor reliability” and “child safety” where human input is crucial.

I invite you to check out WOT Web of Trust today.

Deborah,
Web of Trust

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