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Do you remember the Microsoft Honeymonkey project? On August 2005 Microsoft Research disclosed a new tecnology dubbed Strider HoneyMonkey: a huge virtual machines farm, loaded with Windows XP clients, automated to browse the Internet, founding and recording malicious sites and 0day exploits for extended analysis.
Well, someone brought this concept even further: SiteAdvisor is a new company that, using the same automated browsing technique, browses Internet sites, downloads softwares, compiles registration forms and so on.
Everything to automatically analyze if a site, a software or an email newsletter is malicious or not.
The categorization ends up in a free software (actually in beta) available for today's major browsers that warn users about a malicious site while they are surfing:
The concept is fascinating. Even more if you think that SiteAdvisor already claims more than 90% of worldwide web sites coverage, 100,000 downloaded softwares screened, 800,000 newsletters checked. And growing.
If you are familiar with web sites categorization provided by solution like WebSense, well this is slightly different. SiteAdvisor is automated and covers more Internet interaction than just browsing.
Give it a try here.
Well, someone brought this concept even further: SiteAdvisor is a new company that, using the same automated browsing technique, browses Internet sites, downloads softwares, compiles registration forms and so on.
Everything to automatically analyze if a site, a software or an email newsletter is malicious or not.
The categorization ends up in a free software (actually in beta) available for today's major browsers that warn users about a malicious site while they are surfing:
The concept is fascinating. Even more if you think that SiteAdvisor already claims more than 90% of worldwide web sites coverage, 100,000 downloaded softwares screened, 800,000 newsletters checked. And growing.
If you are familiar with web sites categorization provided by solution like WebSense, well this is slightly different. SiteAdvisor is automated and covers more Internet interaction than just browsing.
Give it a try here.
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