Michael Roebuck's Blog

In reference to my post yesterday titled, "Hackersafe - McAfee Secure vs. ControlScan" as well as a post by Cresta Pillsbury titled, "What is McAfee thinking?????", and to quote Bob Dylan; "The Times They Are a-Changin'".

Karl Ribas came into my office today asking what yesterday's post was supposed to mean. "It doesn't make sense," he said. After pulling up a website to show him, I see McAfee Secure changed there secure page and removed the link to the shopping sites. I really wish I has taken a screen shot, but I didn't.

It looks like McAfee has removed the big link to the shopping sites but replaced it with a smaller text link under the content. The second large link now reads, "Stay Safe From Online Threats" and links you to there Site Advisor product. Using Cresta's example, below is the screen shot of what her client site now looks like with the text link:



But, Wait.... Below is a screen shot of one of my clients and they don't have the text link:



What's going on McAfee? Are you testing landing pages? Anyway, if you look at the fist screen shot, the text link I pointed out now takes you to a listing of all the McAfee Certified Sites. I admit it doesn't take you directly to the McAfee Secure Shopping portal like yesterday, but it does have a rather large listing of alternative sites for you to browse as well as a really nice link smack dab center of the page that will take you to secure shopping portal.

Below is a screen shot of the landing page you go to if you click on the company link as shown in the first image:



If anything new happens, I'll keep you posted. Maybe McAfee Secure is testing landing pages. Maybe they have read our posts and maybe companies have complained. Whatever the reason, as long as traffic stops being diverted to shopping portals, I would think clients will be satisfied.

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