OK, I stumbled upon this the other day (not to be confused with [stumbleupon.com]) and decided to download to give it a trial.
Anything that’s free and will help you avoid those god-damn phising assholes deserves my attention (and hopefully yours!)
I’ve just given it a quick trial, and I’m pretty sure that’s all that’s required to test the plugin.
Once installed, an icon appears in the bottom right of firefox’s windows. If the site is good you get an icon like this:
However, if it’s bad, you get an icon like this:
Simple, just how we like it! If there isn’t any information about the particular site you’re visiting then the icon will be white. Another really nice feature is SiteAdvisor’s ability to flag any search returns from Google, Yahoo! or MSN with a green tick or red cross, depending on how McAfee rank the site.
And as a final note, have you noticed how many dodgy websites have a black background, whilst the safe ones have white? It’s like an old 1950’s western for God’s sake… =)[link]