McAfee Site Advisor is a good way to sort the good websites from the bad,online.

Once installed it appears as small area of text in the bottom right handcorner of the browser window. This changes colour depending on the website.Green signifies a website that can be trusted, yellow a site that might sendlots of emails or red for sites that are known to send spam or bundle adwareinto downloads.

Clicking on this text gives the option to read more information about thesite. This includes the number of emails received after registration and whetherthe website links to any suspicious sites. Downloads hosted on the site are alsochecked.

Most websites are tested by computers at McAfee but it is possible to submita user report if you feel that a website has been the cause of spam or adware.

In this case the website will be looked at by a member of the McAfee team,rather than relying on automatic checking. The site owner can also leave amessage responding to the rating.