VIEW ONLY TRUSTED SITES IN MOZILLA FIREFOX

Mozilla Firefox has an in-built defense mechanism that decides which sites are/aren't safe to visit. The browser allows you to customize your security to a level that you find suitable in the formidable Web environment that has scores of viruses and other threats floating around. It's called WOT (Web Of Trust) and is available as a Firefox add-on. The representation of threatening sites is quite easy to understand while using WOT since it color codes the sites based on the levels that you set.

Follow these steps to install WOT into Firefox:

• Visit https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3456
• Click 'Add to Firefox'.
• Click 'Install' on the dialog box that appears on your screen.
• After the add-on is installed you will have to restart Firefox.
• Once you restart the browser you will be redirected to the 'welcome' page of the WOT site.
• You will come across four radio buttons that ask you to select the level of protection that WOT should use.
• Select your level and click 'Finish'.
• A green circular logo of the application will appear on your Navigation toolbar, beside the address bar.
• Click this button and click on the rating meter to mark the 'Trustworthiness', 'Vendor reliability', 'Privacy' and 'Child safety'.
• You can do this by clicking on the colorcoded rating bars.
• To view the overall score of the site as per rating of users simply click the 'View scorecard for ratings detail' in the dropdown box.

WOT can thus help you gain a better understanding of what risks you run into whenever you visit certain websites.