McAfee's SiteAdvisor is wrong on Keith's new site.

[highplainsdem]

The site's been available only minutes now, but as soon as I checked it, I found a yellow "caution" warning from McAfee SiteAdvisor:

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/foknewschannel.com

McAfee TrustedSource web reputation analysis found potential suspicious behavior on this site which may pose a security risk. Use with caution.

According to McAfee, their warning about the site is due to

e-mail tests for foknewschannel.com:

Promoted through spammy e-mail

Our analysis found that this site may be promoted through spammy e-mail.

To the best of my knowledge, this site hasn't been promoted through ANY emails, and it couldn't have been promoted in the way they say they test sites for spam.

This page at McAfee explains how they check for any problems with "spammy email":

http://www.siteadvisor.com/howitworks/site_report_definitions.html#webreputation

E-mail indicates our overall opinion of a website's e-mail practices. The e-mail test used by SiteAdvisor technology is an "action-result" test. The action is providing a unique e-mail address to forms found on the site; the result is the e-mail received. McAfee's e-mail test does not attempt to identify the reasons for, or the source of, the emails. We simply count the e-mail received by that address and score it for spam-like characteristics.

Keith just launched this site, his not-for-profit blog. There's no way for ANYONE to sign up and receive any email so far, let alone "spammy emails."

Is anyone here a reviewer for McAfee? This needs to be corrected asap. Keith can contact them, too.


Norton Safe Web gives the site a Safe rating, the correct rating:

http://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=foknewschannel.com

[truedelphi]

1. Sometimes warnings are posted on sites

That the site requires caution, etc.

If you call to see why this is happening, you will find out that it occurs because the site is bundled with one or two others, in terms of saving fees from the router and server people.

At least that is what we have found out about the reasons why the two businesses we run from our home are considered worthy of the "Caution" designation.

In Keith's case, it could be because several other shows are being run off the same network router. Which seems like a normal business practice to me.

[Marie Marie]

2. Too bad McAfee wasn't as diligent

when it totally crashed my computer after downloading one of their updates. I've used free anti-virus software (AVG and currently Avast) ever since and have never had a problem. And Kudos to Keith on his new blog. Miss him so much.

[DainBramaged]

3. McLaffy sucks, always has always will

Trying to scare up some lagging business, fuck them

[upi402]

4. McAfee doesn't get to drill into my puter

No way, never again.

[Lugnut]

5. McAfee sucks. n/t

[greyl]

6. You need to supply an email address to leave a comment at foknewschannel.com.

That could be the form McAfee used for their email "tests".

[Major Hogwash]

7. Does Keith know what date was set for the royal wedding?

For Hugh Hefner?

LoL

[Wilms]

8. McAffe? Norton?

Run !