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By: Jean Pierre Nghiem Xuan

Jean Pierre Nghiem Xuan — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:40:10 +0000

I think that Yahoo should the red flagged: isn’t it referencing and linking to 100 thousands red flagged sites.
For Yahoo, the fair way to handle things should be not to list the red flagged sites: unfortunately, by acting this way Yahoo will give a mortal advantage to its competitor Google.
To revive Yahoo’s shares value, most of the little guys will continue to be red flagged so that Yahoo can offer a so called “competitive advantage” over its competitors.
I am now testing how responsive they will be. By the way with or without red flag I will join the class action against Site Advisor. I consider that Yahoo is making money by marketing on behalf of the little guy: if they want to advertise, they should at least pay us or ask for our opinion.
Regards,
Jean Pierre

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:40:35 +0000

I have been having fits with SiteAdvisor and they are totally unresponsive. My site is supposedly sending out spam and we have taken down all sign-up boxes (guestbook, ConstantContact.com, etc.) I am wits end at what to do and it will surely affect my sales in this upcoming holiday season. I kind of feel like I am being shookdown to sign on with Hackersafe.
I like the idea of a class action lawsuit.

By: Dave Gieber

Dave Gieber — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:29:16 +0000

Well, I thought it only fair to comment again here, but apparently all the red flags on my site have now been removed. I never did contact McAfee, so who knows what the red flag criteria are and how many other sites will still receive a false positive.

I am back in the ball game for now. Let’s see how long it lasts.

Dave

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:11:49 +0000

It seems inadvisable to use any free subdomain websites. I experimented with two and both have been flagged, one yellow and one red. These are both graphics sites, no spam , no malware.
These were experimental sites that I had linked to from my main site but I have now removed the links.
The main site has a good web presence so I will take Davids advise and give this fact some publicity.

Dave

By: Julian Moss

Julian Moss — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:10:16 +0000

Our website has also fallen foul of Site Advisor and is receiving a red danger rating because of three downloads that they claim contains WinFixer. These downloads are all of PC Tools Spyware Doctor, one of the most respected anti-spyware products in the industry, from RegNow, a leading online software reseller.

Our site offers advice and troubleshooting tools to PC users who on the whole are not very knowledgeable, who will believe this defamatory rating. It will cost us a lot in lost software sales. We are only a small business and cannot afford to sue McAfee ourselves, but I will certainly be happy to co-operate with any class action.

By: zhelyazko

zhelyazko — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:01:38 +0000

I just want to state my disappointment from yahoo and McAfee Site Advisor for this extremely stupid mistake which is causing a lot of damage. Everyone makes mistakes but the most furstrating thing is that they do not want to fix it. My site was on top possitions in yahoo for every keyword in my niche and all of sudden site advisor decides that I am a spammer. I hate spammers like most of us and never ever intended or did any spam activity. Somehow they say that I sent some spammy e-mails about viagra and stuff. My website is real estate related and it does not make any sense. I am not sure how this testing works but I have to say that it is completely wrong!

If anyone is determined to sue McAfee I will be happy to cooperate and I believe we stand a good chance as this is a pure offense to my business and credibility. I never used McAfee product in my life and after this I do not believe will use such in the future.

Every time I contact McAfee they say that it will take at least 8 weeks for the retesting. I have been with them on phone I sent a lot of e-mails. The last response was 6 weeks ago, they said that my site has been set for retesting and it will take 8 weeks and I am still waiting, hopefully after 2 weeks I will not see the irritating red flag in my yahoo results.

I noticed that they have paid support, do you think that if I pay for their “support” they will make this faster?

Thanks for the post. At least we can show our anger here.

regards Zhelyazko.

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:30:48 +0000

http://siteadvisorclassaction.blogspot.com/

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:11:13 +0000

Hello everyone, we have been dealing with the McAfee support team for over a month and have had the same bad experience as you. A false positive red rating for supposed spamminess (despite very strict email shielding on our site), no retesting, inconsistent application of test results from site to site, no published criteria or standards to code against even if we were in violation and sluggish responsiveness from McAfee.

We have even sent the Site Advisor support team site by site comparison URLs where email addresses were unshielded and green ratings were given by Site Advisor versus our shielded addresses and red rating. The service and response from McAfee AND Yahoo has been pathetic. McAfe won’t act and Yahoo puts their head in the sand. Yet our business continues to be impacted everyday because of their inaction.

We are exploring the possibility of a class action against McAfee and Yahoo. If you have been negatively impacted by an unfair or inacurrate Site Advisor rating, please email a quick note to siteadvisorclassaction@gmail.com. You don’t need to provide any personal information, we just need to see the level of response from the internet community and whether we can make this happen.

Thank you,
Ken
siteadvisorclassaction@gmail.com

By: Dave Gieber

Dave Gieber — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:22:40 +0000

I just discovered last week that mt site has also been unjustly accused of spamming. I have spent 3 and a half years of content building, legitimate double optin list building, gaining search engine ranking and gaining a high held reputation in my niche.

To see Yahoo come along and unjustly accuse me of spamming and hurting my crediblity, sure sounds like libel and slander to me. Isn’t this a sueable offence in any other line of work? But I am just a little guy and big dogs like Yahoo and to a leasser degree, McAfee, can run rough shod over me because they know I don’t have the weight to take them to court.

I hate spamming and don’t do it myself (I don’t plead the first law). But I can envision a crackerjack lawyer outfit putting together a class action law suit.

Thank you David for a place for us victimized malcontents to vent some frustration. Good luck to all of us and death to spammers everywhere!!

Dave