Features & Benefits
Protection
- ScamBlocker: Helps protect you from online scams that try to steal your personal information by displaying a security rating for every Web site you visit and alerting you before you enter a Web site on a list of known fraudulent sites.
- Pop-up Blocker: Block those annoying Shockwave and Flash pop-ups
- Security Tools: Your toolbox for safe browsing
- Privacy Tools: Lets you choose from 5 levels of privacy protection for your browser
- Security Center: See if your computer makes the grade? One-click access to free PC security Check
- Home Page Protection: Get alerted if your designated home page is hijacked
Search
- Search: Includes a built-in search box for fast, convenient searching, powered by Google™
- Local Search: Search within a specific geographic area for local results
- Image Search: Easily search for images
- Shopping and eBay Search: Search for your favorite collectibles or special deals on eBay
- Maps & Driving Directions: Find any destination and get direction in one click
- Yellow Pages/White Pages Search: Allows you to search the Yellow Pages, White Pages and more
Personalized
- Weather: Get customized current and forecasted weather information displayed right on your browser Toolbar
- Stock Ticker: Watch how your stocks are doing with a customized up-to-date stock information
- News: Scan headlines for what your interested in. Shows customized up-to-date news information
- myReader: Easily find news and entertainment sources you're interested in and discover new sources
- myFavorites: Keep a handy list of links to your favorite Web sites
- Custom Button: Create your own button with short cuts to your most visited sites
Convenience
- Travel: Discover great deals for your next trip
- Shopping: Find great deals on clothing, computers, electronics, jewelry and more
- Entertainment: Local movie show times, local TV listings, music and books
- Games: Easy access to hundreds of the hottest PC games
- Web Mail: Easy access to EarthLink Web Mail
- Sports: Keep up with your favorite sports by having one click access to the EarthLink Sports channel
How ScamBlocker Works
As part of the EarthLink Toolbar®, ScamBlocker works hard to protect you from online threats such as phisher sites and scams that try to steal your personal information and identity.
Here's how it works: Whenever you visit a new Web page, ScamBlocker automatically checks to see if that site is on EarthLink's updated list of known scams. If so, you'll immediately see an EarthLink alert page with more information.
ScamBlocker also analyzes each page you visit according to a set of security rules-and instantly gives you a security rating right on your Toolbar.
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A green thumbs-up icon indicates that the Web page you're visiting is either on EarthLink's list of sites that have been cleared by our EarthLink-certified staff, or the page has passed all the tests run by ScamBlocker. |
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A neutral ScamBlocker image means that while we cannot guarantee that the Web page you are viewing is safe, ScamBlocker has found nothing on the page to indicate a scam. |
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A yellow thumbs-down icon is a warning to use extreme caution when accessing this site. ScamBlocker's analysis has identified characteristics that are often present in "phisher" Web sites. Keep in mind, however, that certain Web page elements often used by scammers, such as insecure forms, are also used by legitimate Web sites. |
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A red thumbs-down icon indicates that the Web page in question is highly suspicious, and may be a part of a "phisher" scam trying to steal your financial and/or personal information. |
System Requirements
| Internet Explorer: Windows XP/Vista, Internet Explorer 6.0+ |
Firefox: Windows XP/Vista, Firefox 2.0 |
| Approximate Download Time: Less than 4 minutes (Dial-Up), Less than 1 minute (DSL/Cable) |
Approximate Download Time: Less than 1 minutes (Dial-Up),Less than 15 sec. (DSL/Cable) |
