Yahoo and McAfee Inc. are merging together to present alerts about potentially dangerous Web sites in the net today along with the search results. In this new security feature, people who search the Internet using Yahoo search will see a red exclamation point and a warning next to links that McAfee has identified as dangerous downloads or using visitors' e-mail addresses to send out spam. The dangerous downloads can be adware which are pop ads, spyware which tracks users’ keystrokes and actions, etc. This is an excellent feature in Yahoo search. Sometimes, I feel really apprehensive in opening some sites the search results because you can’t really tell which is genuine. It is nice that they came up with this idea.
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