McAfee Site Adviser

I saw an add in the USA Today paper today for McAfee free Site Adviser.

http://www.siteadvisor.com/download/ie_postinstall.html

It looks cool so I installed it selected OK for new browser help object when prompted, went to IE7 and there is suppose to be a button on the toolbar and it is suppose to rate Google searches according to safety of sites.

Well I don't have the SiteAdvisor on my toolbars and the ratings don't show up when I do a search. I tried to get help from McAfee but couldn't get through. So here I am to my go to guys for real help.

It shows up on my in my installed plugins as 2 listings as it said it should be and both show enabled. I have uninstalled and reinstalled, rebooted etc and still nothing. I would really like to try this thing if anybody has had experience with it. It acts just like it's not on the computer. I tried McAfee's online diagnostic tool and it said it couldn't find it installed. Go figure.

I use XP home SP-2 fully updated.

Thanks in advance.
Floyd

 

floyd--When you search at Google.com you may see a malware warning from Google, itself, about any site that it feels may be harmful.
http://www.lattimore.id.au/2006/11/17/google-malware-warning/
So if your search engine is Google, you may not need SiteAdvisor.
Do you see Site Advisor in Control Panel|Add/Remove? If not, it seems it has not installed. Perhaps there is a conflict with IE7.
If you still want Site Advisor, uninstall (not delete) from Add/Remove (if it is there), download a fresh installation file from http://www.siteadvisor.com and try installing again.

 

Welshjim, yes the bizarre thing is it is listed in Add/Remove Programs. It's listed as a plugin in IE7, and I checked with a BHO detector program and it found it OK and it's enabled. It even has a checked entry in my msconfig/startup lists so I'm confident it's installed OK. I also use Slim Browser which is a IE shell and it doesn't show up there either. Now I'm determined even more to try to figure it out.
I think it would be much more thorough then Google to detect bad sites before you go there.
Any other ideas will be welcome.
Floyd

 

You can get a 30 day trial of the new SiteAdvisor Plus program from here

Not sure if it's worth purchasing tho, to be honest. Certainly not for me.

 

TeMerc, thanks. I thought about doing that but the free one is all I need I think. I'm concerned that if I buy it I'll have the same problem getting the browser to find it, but maybe I could get some help from McAfee then. I think they have a 30 trial period. Maybe I'll end up doing that. I think something in windows is causing it not to show up.
Floyd

 

Evan, thank you very much. That is what I needed in IE to use it. I do have a problem in Slim Browser yet though. SB is the IE engine with a different interface so when I change thins in one it carries over to the other. In SB it's on the toolbar but is grayed out and the drop down arrow does not respond. Any ideas on that one. SB is really my browser of choice. Much nicer then IE.
Thanks again for the suggestion and if you have an idea how I can get to activate in SB let me know. BTW SB has all the selections, options and such that IE has.
Floyd

 

For further support there is now an official forum set aside for the SiteAdvisor plugin. It's actualy been there a while, but I was just notified of it.

You can find it here

 

Thanks everyone for all you help. After checking with the Slimbrowser site, it looks like SB only supports their own proprietary plugins albeit some unique ones but not SA. SA wont show up in SB on the list of plugins. According to McAfee it only works on specific browsers such as IE and FireFox. I guess they weren't kidding. I thought I might be able to use it because SB lets me do everything IE can do and a lot more. This is the first thing I've encountered something that won't work in SB if it works in IE. I'm going to keep 'futzing' around with it and if I discover anything I'll post back.
Floyd