Unlike other Anti-Virus or Internet Security utilities,
ca Anti-Virus 2008 includes Website Verification tools and Link Validators as standard to protect from re-directs and ghosted applications.
VISTA once proclaimed it would have such protection included, but don't count on it. Same thing for the VeriSgn and Yahoo's "validated link" programs and how they tried to get
all the browsers to adopt the practice (they discovered they would effectively limit their advertiser pool by about 30% if they implemented such a plan and departed from their hands-off "surfer beware" position). It's all about the money, unfortunately, and Google is the worst offender of all time.
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