Just Ask McAfee: SiteAdvisor Answers 100 Million Web Safety Questions Daily

Just Ask McAfee: SiteAdvisor Answers 100 Million Web Safety Questions Daily

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) today announced that SiteAdvisor, McAfee's Web safety software, achieved a significant milestone in August, answering on average more than 100 million unique Web safety queries every day. When a McAfee® SiteAdvisor^TM user surfs to a site or uses a search engine, the consumer's browser queries the SiteAdvisor database for each site's safety rating. These ratings are intuitively displayed as red, yellow and green icons and represent the results of SiteAdvisor's extensive tests for spam, spyware, exploits and online scams. The icons help consumers make safer click decisions.

"We're very pleased how quickly McAfee SiteAdvisor's Web safety ratings have become an essential part of the Web community's daily life," said Doug Wyatt, Director of Engineering. "Daily unique queries to our database have been growing steadily. We answered a massive 4.4 billion queries in the last 30 days alone."

The growth in McAfee SiteAdvisor usage is accompanied by widespread recognition from leading publications including Time Magazine (50 Coolest Web sites), PC Magazine (A Top 10 "Must Have" Firefox Extension), and CNET's Download.com (5-Stars).

McAfee SiteAdvisor has pioneered Web safety by testing and rating, on an ongoing basis, nearly every trafficked site on the Internet for a wide variety of Web safety issues including spyware, viruses, exploits, online scams and spam. SiteAdvisor's database contains safety test results for more than 6.4 million Web sites. McAfee SiteAdvisor is available as a free stand-alone download at www.mcafee.com and is also an integrated part of McAfee's 2007 security suites.

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