The Security Mentor

A security company says that about 5% of Web communication is with dangerous web sites, most often the kind that install spyware.

Someone on a geek forum responded to this news, in a post marked "Funny":

Five percent dangerous traffic.
by corngrower (738661) on Saturday March 04, @09:20PM (#14852500)

That's about the same percentage of dangerous traffic that's on the road on Friday and Saturday nights.

That isn't funny. That's about right. And it gives you a way to understand hazards from web browsing. Stay alert like you would if you were driving. Alert, not paranoid: most drivers are sober and most web sites are safe (for your computer anyway). If a driver is weaving or if a web site is pounding you with popups and blocking your Back button, either way you know it's time to be someplace else.

The security company is called SiteAdvisor. There's a SiteAdvisor plugin for Internet Explorer, and more to the point a plugin for FireFox. Their product is different from the antivirus and antispyware products you've already got. It puts up a stop/go/caution indicator for you to check before you go to a website, based on their continuing scans to see which sites are doing nasty things to the computers of their visitors.