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Users can view the site report for a website to get detailed information about specific threats.

Site reports are delivered from the Trellix GTI ratings server and provide the following information.

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Overview

The overall rating for the website, determined from these tests:

  • Evaluation of a website's email and download practices using proprietary data collection and analysis techniques.

  • Examination of the website itself to see if it engages in annoying practices such as excessive pop-ups or requests to change your home page.

  • Analysis of the website's online affiliations to see if it associates with other suspicious sites.

  • Combination of the Trellix review of suspicious sites with feedback from our Threat Intelligence services.

Online Affiliations

How aggressively the site tries to get you to go to other sites that Trellix flagged with a red rating.

Suspicious sites often associate with other suspicious sites. The primary purpose of feeder sites is to get you to visit the suspicious site. A site can receive a red rating if, for example, it links too aggressively to other red sites. In this case, Web Control considers the site red by association.

Web Spam Tests

The overall rating for a website's email practices, based on the test results.

Trellix rates sites based on how much email we receive after entering an address on the site, and how much the email looks like spam. If either measure is higher than what is considered acceptable, Trellix rates the site yellow. If both measures are high or one looks egregious, Trellix rates the site red.

Download Tests

The overall rating about the impact a site's downloadable software had on our test computer, based on the test results.

Trellix gives red flags to sites with virus-infected downloads or to sites that add unrelated software considered by many to people be adware or spyware. The rating also considers the network servers that a downloaded program contacts during operation, and any changes to browser settings or computer registry files.