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E' di poche ore fa la notizia che Yahoo! che già da anni collabora con McAfee stringendo accordi a livello globale ha messo a disposizione dei propri navigatori un tool per fornire un’esperienza sicura di ricerca sul Web attraverso Yahoo! Search.  Avviata in beta oggi, la funzionalità SearchScan di Yahoo! Search, realizzata sulla base della premiata tecnologia McAfee® SiteAdvisor®, fornisce agli utenti un servizio di avviso “sempre attivo” per i siti pericolosi che hanno problematiche relative alla sicurezza come spyware, adware e altri software maligni in grado di infettare e danneggiare i proprietari dei PC. SearchScan inoltre identifica i siti che hanno dimostrato precedenti negativi con le e-mail, inondando le caselle di posta elettronica dei navigatori di SPAM. SearchScan è disponibile per gli utenti Yahoo! Search negli Stati Uniti, Canada, Regno Unito, Francia, Italia, Germania, Australia, Nuova Zelanda e Spagna.

Yahoo!, Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) and McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) today announced a partnership to deliver a safer Web search experience through Yahoo! Search.  Launching in beta today, the new SearchScan feature by Yahoo! Search, powered by the award-winning McAfee® SiteAdvisor® technology, provides always-on alerts to users for “risky” sites with security concerns such as spyware, adware and other malicious software that can infect and damage a user’s PC. SearchScan also identifies sites that have shown bad email practices, flooding users’ In-boxes with spam emails. SearchScan is available for Yahoo! Search users in the US, Canada, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and Spain. The McAfee Yahoo! partnership is a multi-year, global agreement with additional elements, including bringing Yahoo! Search to McAfee users, in the next few months.

By integrating McAfee’s technology into Yahoo! Search, sites that may harm the user’s computer just by visiting them will be eliminated from appearing in Yahoo! Search results. SearchScan also alerts users to potentially risky sites with a red warning sign in search results, allowing users to proceed with caution. During this beta period, SearchScan displays McAfee alerts optimal for the Yahoo! Search user and does not include all McAfee SiteAdvisor red ratings. (See Diagram 1at end of release)

SearchScan addresses users’ urgent need to avoid visiting dangerous sites on the Web when conducting a search. The McAfee Yahoo! partnership represents a major step forward for safer searching online; users who conduct Web searches with Yahoo! will be warned about the many malicious and dangerous Web sites before they visit them.

“The new SearchScan feature from Yahoo! Search makes searching the Web even safer than ever before. No other search engine today offers this level of warning before visiting sites that can damage or infect a user’s PC and cost them valuable time and money,” said Vish Makhijani, senior vice president and general manager of Yahoo! Search. “Through this partnership with McAfee, we can offer users a safer search experience and drive more users to make Yahoo! Search their starting point on the Web.”  
 
“We are very excited to have Yahoo! as a partner to make the Internet more secure for everyone,” said Tim Dowling, McAfee vice president, Web Security Group  “The advance warning offered by McAfee SiteAdvisor is one of the strongest weapons in the battle against online threats. Research indicates that 4 out of 5 Web site visits start with a search, and consumers who use Yahoo! Search will now be alerted to high-risk Web sites. This protects users from known malicious threats such as browser exploits that will wreck their PC with a single click or spyware that can lead to identity theft.”