Like if it checks off a site (when you google search it’ll either have a green check mark or red ex) does that mean just opening the site is safe or everything including all download-ables as well? Which means if I download something off a checked site, there’s a 100% chance it isn’t a virus… right?
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1 aquielisunari // Sep 23, 2008
no that means if you visit the site it doesn’t contain malicious cookies that will change settings to your registry. Some downloads may contain viruses.
2 James H // Sep 23, 2008
Agreed, 1 up for the previous answer, free of malicious code, and cookies, etc
3 choicefresh // Sep 23, 2008
Wrong. You can’t depend on your antivirus 100%, whether it checks downloads or not. I would look up more information about the website (http://www.siteadvisor.com), as well as scanning the file with something like VirusTotal (http://www.virustotal.com) or Jotti’s Malware Scan (http://virusscan.jotti.org).
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