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Person of the Year: You

Time Magazine recently announced their person of the year - You.

It's always great to get recognition for your efforts, and for once I think Time Magazine got it right.  In what they herald as the "digital democracy", they highlight some of the great Web 2.0 resources, platforms and communities we have such as MySpace, YouTube and Wikipedia, all of which would be abject failures if they weren't open and had the wealth of user input.

However, these two traits are being taken advantage of by rogue elements, abusing them for hosting security threats, scams and inappropriate content. In August 2006, ScanSafe found 1 in 600 social networking pages hosted malware of some sort.

The reason we setup Scandoo was as a way for people to help protect themselves from the ever increasing dangers on the web including Web 2.0. Scandoo works by combining your input on sites and ScanSafe's security technologies. You can report offensive content/malware simply by hitting redefine in the bubble on any search result.
 
Together we can make the new Web 2.0 that YOU have created the safer place most of us want it to be.

Will you join us in our quest? 
Why not recategorise a site today?

Scream if you want to go faster!

You thought Scandoo was fast? Thanks to ScanSafe - we've got the fastest real-time security technologies in the world - but now we're going to be sending you Scandoo verdicts even faster. 

So now, as soon as Scandoo thinks a site is most likely to be safe, a paler 'scanning' verdict icon is displayed, which is followed by the final 'still' verdict icon.

        Means we have started the Scandoo scanning and analysis process.

        Means that we're pretty sure this site deserves the icon displayed.

        Means that all scanning and analysis processes are complete.

Why are we doing this?

Basically - we make sites jump through hoops to get their green, yellow, red or spider icons - every time we see them.

Scandoo is very different to other site advisory systems - we actually put search result destination/end pages through a system of security scanning and analysis processes in real time, every time - rather than fetch a simple older verdict from a static database.

It's a complex process that now generates a 'first' verdict - pretty accurately, and very quickly. Then it does the analysis required for a 'final' verdict – this is the security equivalent of looking both ways before crossing. This will often be the same as the ‘first’ verdict, but we think it pays to be certain.

Let us know what you think of this change - any ideas on how we could improve this? We're all ears.

Hello World!