Frequently Asked Questions
- How does Trust My Web works ?
- How to use Trust My Web ?
- Where do you get your information ?
- Are this data reliable ?
- I find my website url in your database. How did you get it ?
- I don't want my website url to be in your database. What can I do ?
- Trust My Web Internet browser add-ons
- 1. How does Trust My Web works ?
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Trust My Web has a simple goal : help users to check if a website can be trusted, based on several criteria.
These criteria can be split between three categories :- Trust My Web criteria.
- User's rating.
- User's comments and appreciation.
- 2. How to use Trust My Web ?
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In this section we will explain the different criteria we are using, and how to read it.
Trust My Web criteria :
There are 3 criteria we analyse to set the status of a website : adult / shocking content, phishing fraud, and malicious software eventual presence. If one of these criteria is bad, the global status will be negative.
Here is the list of the different status we are using :
The status will be represented with that picture if a criterion is "unsafe" :
The status will be represented with that picture if a criterion is "adult / shocking site" :
The status will be represented with that picture if a criterion is "safe" :
The detail can be found in the section "Trust My Web indicators detail".
Each criterion has its own status :
If a criterion is not respected, this picture will be used :
If a criterion is respected, this picture will be used :
User's rating :
The detail can be found in the section "Users indicators detail".
Each criterion has its own status :
If a criterion is not respected, this picture will be used :
If a criterion is respected, this picture will be used :
All of the users indicator can be rated by visitors.
To rate an indicator, please just use on of the two buttons :- Click on the following button if you think this criterion is respected :
- Click on the following button if you think this criterion is NOT respected :
User's comments and appreciation :
Feel free to write a review on a website to offer to other visitors your own appreciation and details on a website. - Click on the following button if you think this criterion is respected :
- 3. Where do you get your information ?
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Every piece of data we are using to evaluate a website safety are PUBLIC data and can be reach on the Internet.
- 4. Are this data reliable ?
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We are using API's to check a website phishing or malwares potential.
Google SafeBrowsing API for the malware and phishing safety (such as Google Chrome or Firefox web browsers), Google Safe Search for the adult or shocking content checking, and Google GeoMap for displaying the map of infected websites. Others data are given by user's experience.
We can't give you a 100% reliability, but the API's we are using can be trusted (refresh rate : 30 minutes).
If you think the data we display are not correct, please feel free to contact us. - 5. I find my website url in your database. How did you get it ?
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Numerous of lists containing billions of URLs can be find on the Internet and are released to use it. So your url was in this list. If you are concerned about that use, you can read more information on that official website : (official governemant website, and ICANN offical website): http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-digital.html
- 6. I don't want my website url to be in your database. What can I do ?
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Ask us by mail and we will retrieve it in the next three days from our database.
- 7. Trust My Web Internet browser add-ons
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To help you keep your browser safe and secure, Trust My Web team worked on an add-on that can be integretad to your browser. The add-on is currently available for Mozilla Firefox Browser (from version 3.5 to 5.*) and Google Chrome Browser.
What does this add-on do and how does it work ?
The add-on simply use our data to show with a bullet (for Firefox, the bullet will be a small picture in your status bar, and for Chrome, the same bullet right to the toolbar) if the website you are visiting is safe or not. Here is a picture representing the different status you could get :
The add-on does not get any data that could identified users directly. It is safe to use and free of malware / badware infections. See the Softpedia analyse for more details :
You can also download Trust My Web add-on for Firefox via Mozilla add-on page by visiting this address : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/trust-my-web/
For Google Chrome, visit the official Google Chrome Web store page dedicated to TrustMyWeb extension : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/oofjodnmhgadalobpkdokibpgbjfoemi
To rate or review our add-on, you can also consult Filecluster card dedicated to TrustMyWeb add-on (on filecluster.com website) :
Our add-on is also available for download on BrotherSoft.com website. Consult the dedicated page on brothersoft.com :
